About

This website showcases my final project created for the massive open online course (MOOC) "Risk and Opportunity. Managing Risk for Risk for Development", organised by the World Bank on Coursera, a platform for online courses.

Though the Risky Tower is not a digital product in itself, but made of solid wood and best enjoyed "hands on", I wanted to make something social and fun, something anyone could make with simple tools, something which can easily be explained to others, is educational without being tedious and can translate to any group of people, anywhere.

I would like to develop the Risky Tower a bit more and eventually organize some trial games in different communities to see how it translates into differents contexts and interpretations.

Relevant links:

The World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/

The World Bank on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/worldbank

The MOOC "Risk and Opportunity. Managing Risk for Risk for Development": https://www.coursera.org/course/managerisk

Interesting participants discussions related to the course can be found on Twitter #wdrrisk

Behind this website:

My name is Sarah and I am working for an international NGO in humanitarian and development aid. I am currently deployed in the Philippines for rehabilitation projects after typhoon Haiyan and believe that there is a reason behind every risk and every opportunity.

If you wish to contact me, please head out to http://about.me/sarah.klinder or write to me on Twitter.