Title of Presentation: The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust
Presenter: Robert David Steele
Short Description: The Open Source Everything Manifesto is presented in the context of key negative and postive trends and the imminent revolution in the USA of the 99% against the 1%. Specific solutions are proposed for the restoration of public agency — power back to the people — including an open source ecology, the six bubble concept of the Earth Intelligence Network, a new approach to a self-healing watermarked cyber-commons. A School of Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance, the World Brain Institute, the Open Source Agency, and the United National Open-Source Decision-Support Information Network are presented — all of them seeking a home in New York City.
Bio: Robert David Steele is a former Marine Corps infantry officer, former spy, co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Command, and former CEO of Open Source Solutions Network, Inc. Today he is CEO of Earth Intelligence Network, and the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-ficiton, reading in 98 categories.
Steele found that close to 90% of the needed relevant information for government operations and decision-support is available from public sources in 183 languages, but not collected, processed, or analyzed by the structured official intelligence community. He realized that embracing the open source community allows for greater exchange of information and more efficient use of taxpayer funds.
Open Source provides a platform that is affordable, interoperable, and scalable. Steele contends that secrets are not the same as knowledge, and that the Open Source Approach will help to curtail government waste relating to the desire to collection for the sake of collection.
Through his discussion with Michael Ostrolenk Steele explains how using common sense and open source techniques, the U.S. Government can adopt proven methods in the field by Steele over 25 years ago to have a leaner, more effective, more efficient, and more transparent intelligence Community.