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In the task of ensuring that governments undertake the measures needed to mitigate the impacts of global warming today and in the future, it is necessary to activate the public worldwide to a much greater degree than has been the case over the last 25 years. The IPCC have published five reports providing the world with an objective, scientific view of climate change. Each summarized for policymakers and the press, to facilitate communication to the public. Given the inertia that characterizes the public’s response, it is legitimate to ask if sufficient emphasis has been placed on the means of communication. Whether, in activating the public, where communication takes place and how it is achieved is of equally importance to what is communicated. Museums as institutions have a number of characteristics, individually and collectively, that offer a unique possibility of disseminating both the local impacts of climate change and placing them in the wider context of the international nature of global warming. Examining storytelling as a means of activating local communities, the paper describes a museum project being developed in the Norwegian arctic and a burgeoning international initiative from museum professionals on three continents that aims to bridge the local global gap. The IPCC report for 2018 offers a window of opportunity to activate the global community. The paper concludes by outlining a possible scenario to achieve this, whereby the museum sector, offering both local museums as arenas for dialogue together with an international infrastructure for global communication, could play a significant role.

The underlying principles of Agile Development had been stated and established for 30 years before the Agile Manifesto was proposed. Software Prototyping, Rapid Application Development, Rapid Development, Iterative Development, even Help Desks and SWAT teams must be seen as antecedents of Agile Development, as we understand it today. The original proponents of ‘agile development’ attempted to develop a new narrative for software system development. However, notwithstanding the length of this history, now some 45 years in the making, many developers, and education institutions, still question the approach, still refuse to include it in course curriculum, at least partly due to it being ignored in IEEE curriculum structures, still demand ‘proof that it works’, and still adhere to the traditional linear phased thinking of the Waterfall Approaches. Responding to the need for ‘proof’ and attempting to debate the adherents of the long-standing Waterfall Approaches has proven futile, but a new narrative has been evolved which attempts to describe Agile Development as being a normal, usual approach to human activity, reflecting the way people inevitably act when intending to undertake, and in the process of undertaking, any purposeful activity with a planned outcome. Uncertainty is the norm, planning is essential but empirical and adaptive, leadership is preferred over management. Other research disciplines have much to contribute to agile thinking and action.

In 2015 in Flanders (Belgium) an ErfgoedApp (heritage app) was launched. It was developed by Vidinote and FARO with PixLive. The program allows to construct and use Augmented Reality applications, linked to heritage items, col-lections and institutions. In 2015-2016 master students in archaeology, arts sci-ences and archivists experimented with the app, as part of the course work. They managed to produce applications that work, provided feedback to further develop the App and offered reflection on the relation between heritage work, cityscapes and augmented reality and the differences between working with or towards texts or visual information. Low or no cost for distributing and using the applications in practice in heritage and academic contexts proved possible