Phi Beta Iota Objectives
- Encourage and recognize public intelligence in the public interest
- Advance public knowledge of the proven process of intelligence (decision-support)
- Requirements definition
- Collection management
- Source discovery & vetting
- Advanced machine-speed automated processing
- Advanced desktop analytic tool sets
- Value of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) over partial proprietary “entrapment”
- “Full-Spectrum” Human Intelligence (HUMINT) harnessing distributed knowledge
- Critical thinking in historical, multi-cultural, and multi-dimensional contexts
- Appreciation for collaboration across all boundaries (cultural, disciplinary, domain)
- Understanding of how to deliver “just enough, just in time, just right” decision-support
- Communicate with the public and with all sources and methods relevant to public intelligence
- Advance the use by Civil Society of the legal ethical sources and methods of public intellignece
- Encourage students to practice the art and science of public intelligence as both a form of applied learning and complex adaptive collaboration, and as a public service
