Presentation from the “Uncomfortable Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media. https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/

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3. The accident exposed in a flash -
quite literally - the worst traits
of ‘old Japan’, with its elitist and
secretive bureaucratic culture.
David Pilling,
‘Bending Adversity: Japan and the
Art of Survival,’ Chapter 14

4. NAIIC Core Message
‘Regulatory Capture’
Prof George Stigler

5. ‘Mind-set’
Groupthink
Transparency/Openness
Accountability
Obligation to Dissent

6. GAO USA 2014
IAEA 2014
NAS USA 2014

7. Root Causes:
‘Groupthink’
Apparent Causes:
’Lessons from NAIIC’

8. Japan Remains Mysterious?!

9. Order by the structure
Order by the function