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WHITE SPACES INNOVATION IN SWEDENFigure 3.10 Sweco Design for Caofeidian Eco-city, ChinaArmed with the theory that cities are processes not just geographical spaces, intercityflows can be disrupted, for example, by bad weather whereby medical staff may notbe able to reach hospitals, not because they cannot be helicoptered in, but because theyhave to look after their children who cannot get to school. Normally municipal servicesand health services have different interests, systems and services but in emergenciesthey clearly need to be able to interact resiliently. Accordingly, network interface enhancementis a key instrument to improving system resilience. The inter-operability ofApple PCs and smartphones is useful and accessible to millions and semantic searchengines demonstrate improvements in understanding user thoughts and needs. „Gamification‟of learning processes inspired by interfacing of the Tetris Blue Light gamingsystem kind is also inspirational given it can easily be handled by children. Thus OpenArena will first assemble sixty or so representatives of the Öresund emergency andbasic infrastructure services alongside private companies engaged in computer gamingto demonstrate how simulation „theatre‟ can assist management, operation and technicalsolutions to Grand Challenge issues like Climate Change-induced events such as exceptionallybad weather or other emergencies in an optimally resilient manner. „Gamification‟will upgrade typical civil protection training which relies on whiteboards and postitnotes. Training is needed in Vector Command i.e. how leadership is provided inemergencies, especially international ones, where different rules apply. In most countriespolice have VC status but in Sweden and a few other nearby non-Scandinaviancountries (e.g. Russia, Poland) it is the fire brigade that exercises VC until it is establishedthat a crime has been committed, such as terrorism, when the police take over.Some civil protection systems are highly procedurally-driven, others are both more55