Reflections on United Nations Intelligence & Counterintelligence
All Reflections & Story Boards, Economics/True Cost, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy
Your Aide Memoire came to my attention today. Apart from wishing you every success, I thought to contribute a few ideas.
01 The new meme that has replaced Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) — I taught this to 90 countries including all NATO/PfP and six UN missions in Lebanon — is M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making).
02 Government is the least important of the eight communities (I used to call them tribes) of information and intelligence (decision-support). The eight communities in alphabetic order are academia, civil society including labor unions and religions, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non
03 Governments have failed to be relevant or progressive for two reasons: first, they confuse intelligence (decision support or the outcomes) with secrecy (the method or inputs); and second, most government do not actually make evidence-based decisions, but rather decisions of convenience driven mostly by a mix of ideology and corruption–decisions that favor the special interests of the few against the public interest of the many.
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2012 Sheddiing Light on the Secret World – Review of Hamilton Bean’s No More Secrets – Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence
Articles & ChaptersPDF (5 pages): IJIC STEELE on BEAN Review NO MORE SECRETS
Shedding Light on the Secret World
Robert David Steele
Hamilton Bean, No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence (Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA, 2011, 218 pp. $49.95.
Robert Steele's review at Amazon with quotes
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (IJIC), Volume 25 Number 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 634-638.
Robert David Steele (Vivas) entered on active duty with the United States government in 1976, holding full clearances until 2006. Since 1988 he has been perhaps the most ardent proponent of intelligence reform, with an emphasis on multinational information sharing and sense-making, in conjunction with a greater reliance on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Mr. Steele is the former Chief Executive Officer of OSS.Net, Inc. and the volunteer Chief Executive Officer of Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c(3) public charity.
2013 Robert Steele Foreword to NATO Book on Public Intelligence for Public Health
Articles & Chapters
Short URL This Post: http://tinyurl.com/NATO2013
PDF: Steele Foreword to NATO Internet Based (Public) Intelligence
Foreword
Robert David STEELE
CEO, Earth Intelligence Network
I am delighted to have an opportunity to welcome this book as a contribution to the growing body of work focused on the convergence of new technologies, new human possibilities, and new organizational forms and processes.
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Reflections on Data as the New Oil BUT No One Is Serious About Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, Machine or Man-Machine Translation, or M4IS2
All Reflections & Story Boards, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Information Operations (IO), Knowledge
It is fashionable now to talk about data as the new oil (or dirt), and to proclaim breathlessly that the ever-increasing masses of data allow for ever more wonderous things to be done including my personal favorite, situational awareness.
However, no one is yet serious about holistic analytics (which also implies a holistic collection management strategy and a clear definition of both what is to be collected and what is to be done with anomalous data encountered in passing). Neither is anyone serious about True Cost Economics, Man-Machine Translation, Global Near-Real-Time Crowd-Sourcing (for observations, translations, and culturally-grounded interpretations) or M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making).
I cannot help but recall my briefing to the National Research Council in 1994, when I was asked to comment on the US Army's multi-billion dollar communications plan for the future. I pointed out the obvious: the US Army was assuming that all data would be generated from within the US Army or other US Government systems, and was making no provision for ingesting and digesting data from the 99% of the data sources outside the US Army. Of course they blew me off then, and they still do not get it today, 22 years later.
Reference: Data Journalism Handbook
Analysis, OSINT GenericData Journalism Handbook
The Data Journalism Handbook is a free open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.
It was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in London. It subsequently spilled over into an international, collaborative effort involving dozens of data journalism's leading advocates and best practitioners – including from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, the Chicago Tribune, Deutsche Welle, the Guardian, the Financial Times, Helsingin Sanomat, La Nacion, the New York Times, ProPublica, the Washington Post, the Texas Tribune, Verdens Gang, Wales Online, Zeit Online and many others.
Reference: The Open Data Handbook
Analysis, OSINT Generic, UN/NGOThe Open Data Handbook
This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open.
An Open Knowledge Foundation project.
