The Standby Volunteer Task Force: One Year On
The Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) was launched exactly a year ago tomorrow and what a ride it has been! It was on September 26, 2010, that I published the blog post below to begin rallying the first volunteers to the cause.
Phi Beta Iota: This is the most structured harnessing of distributed human intelligence that we know of, and it is especially empowering because of its strong geospatial roots. Now imagine similar forces in being to cover each of the ten high-level threats to humanity from local to global, each of the core policies, with citizen intelligence minutemen tallying true costs for every good and service, and sticking like leeches to every organization, illuminating corruption at every turn.
