Graphic: The Four Quadrants of Knowledge

Citizen-Centered, Collection, ICT-IT, Innovation, Processing, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
The Original
The Original

This was inspired by Harold Wilenski's book, Organizational Intelligence (Knowledge and Policy in Government and Industry), and Robert Steele's growing awareness that what passes for “Knowledge Management” is nothing more than internal data mining.  Augmented by an understanding of collaboration networks and by the growing but still immature field of commercial intelligence, the chart took shape rather quickly.

Not anticipated, but now consistent with both the strategic direction of the Earth Intelligence Network, and the reality of how cell phones rather than laptops are the device of choice for the poor, was the seminal role of the cell phone as the device of choice for achieving organizational intelligence.

It can be useful placed side by side with Nova Spivak's Meta-Web illustration to see a convergence of the technical-centered (Spivak) and the human-centered (Steele).

Graphic: Regional Information-Sharing and Sense-Making Centre

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Capabilities-Force Structure, Collection, ICT-IT, Innovation, Languages-Translation, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes
Regional Centre
Regional Centre

This is a basic regional centre that would initially work exclusively with open sources of information, but could, as trust and mutual intersts coincide, extend to do focused clandestine and covert actions, for example, against transnational criminal gangs, corrupt government officials and predatory corporate officials that loot commonwealths by bribing single officials at key points.

Graphic: Library Behind this Public Intelligence Blog

Strategy-Holistic Coherence
Library Behind This Site
Library Behind This Site

It is not possible for any one person to achieve wisdom, that is a collective function.  By the same token, it is not possible for any one person to contribute to the whole if they isolate their consciousness in a narrow discipline.  This is where policy leadership had failed–we are “led” by individuals whose reading and thinking is, at best, cursory, who fail to do the outreach to the diversity of views that would enrich any deliberation, and who fail to be honest about the foundations for their decisions, in almost all cases corrupt, selfish, and in favor of special interests.

Graphic: Strategy Centre

Analysis, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Innovation, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
Strategy Centre
Strategy Centre

This was created as a notional standard for any state or province recognizing that the federal government has failed and that each state or province is on its own should it wish to survive what some have called “The Long Emergency.”  Panarchy and resilience and sustainability arfe achievable at any level, and it may well be that we must start at the bottom rather than the top, which makes perfect sense.