Category: Collective Intelligence

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2004 Atlee (US) Beyond Intelligence Reform: Shifting from Intelligence to Co-Intelligence

Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Historic Contributions

Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee

Godlen Candle Award: Mr. Tom Atlee

OSS '04: To Tom Atlee, founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute, for his sustained leadership in the vanguard of an informed democracy.  His book, The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Worlds for All is in the best traditions of Thomas Jefferson, who said “A Nation’s best defense is an educated citizenry.”

We discovered Tom Atlee when we made the leap from being critical of fraud, waste, and abuse within the secret intelligence community simply on the basis of efficiency, and recognized as so many others have before us, that democracy demands public intelligence, and that secret intelligence is inherently pathological and easily corrupted or exploited by unscrupupous politicians.  Tom Atlee has been our guide into the world of appreciate inquiry, deliberative dialog, conscious evolution, and citizenship wisdom councils (Jim Rough), and for that, we can never articulate thanks as profound as the difference he has made.  Below is his first presentation to OSS '04.

Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee
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2004 Atlee (US) A Model of the Operational Subsystems and Dynamics Within Intelligent Systems (Individual, Organizational, Societal)

Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Historic Contributions
Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee

Godlen Candle Award: Mr. Tom Atlee

OSS ‘04: To Tom Atlee, founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute, for his sustained leadership in the vanguard of an informed democracy.  His book, The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Worlds for All is in the best traditions of Thomas Jefferson, who said “A Nation’s best defense is an educated citizenry.”

We discovered Tom Atlee when we made the leap from being critical of fraud, waste, and abuse within the secret intelligence community simply on the basis of efficiency, and recognized as so many others have before us, that democracy demands public intelligence, and that secret intelligence is inherently pathological and easily corrupted or exploited by unscrupupous politicians.  Tom Atlee has been our guide into the world of appreciate inquiry, deliberative dialog, conscious evolution, and citizenship wisdom councils (Jim Rough), and for that, we can never articulate thanks as profound as the difference he has made.  Below is his second presentation to OSS ‘04.

Atlee Two

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2004 Pelton (US) Value-added Citizen Blogs, Forums, and Wars

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Historic Contributions

Robert Young Pelton
Robert Young Pelton

Robert Young Pelton at IOP ’06 17-19 January 2006,

Sheraton Premiere, Tysons Corner, Virginia

notes..? :)))  I like to keep it simple.  My presentation was simply on using value-added nodes to attract and nurture intel providers. Examples were the world of Blogs and forums to generate ground intel

Examples:

www.comebackalive.com a chat site for a wide spectrum of adventurers, mercenaries, jihadis, travelers, students and others. Example was instructions on how to get into Grozny took three days and only about 5 entries to nail it.

www.kathryncramer.com a housewife from New York who did extraordinary reporting on the coup in Equatorial Guinea from her kitchen, while changing diapers

Yahoo forums pmc Group PMC <PMCs@yahoogroups.com> where 600 people register, about two dozen post and around 300 or journos hover to snatch up tidbits from private military contractors.

The information/disinformation battle going on between Keith Idema at www.superpatriots.us/ versus stuporpatriots.blogspot.com/  and Idema's use of proxy bloggers like Caosblog.com to create a sense of false support

Then I talked about America's Most Wanted, reality shows and how the US government could harness this form of value added node (and of course the web) to hunt down criminals like Bin Laden.

Finally I challenged government, intel and big corporations to harness these new forms of intel networks to make the world a smarter, safer place!

RYP

PS thanks for having me, it’s always a pleasure to hang out with the odd and educated!

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2004 Gill (US) Open Wireless Spectrum and Democracy

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Historic Contributions, Technologies
Jock Gill
Jock Gill

Jock Gill served President Bill Clinton as a communications specialist, and has gone on to reflect deeply on public communications as the inherent foundation of democracy.  As part of that process he has recognized–and taught us and others–that open spectrum as championed by David Weinberger is an inherent “need” for full and open public communications.

Below are two documents, the first is his presentation notes from OSS '04, and the second is the first page linking to David Weingerger's seminal White Paper that was also published as a chapter in COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace.  The Frog leads to the original online; the page on the right to the printable version of the chapter.

Gill Paper

Open Spectrum Original
Open Spectrum Original
Open Spectrum Chapter
Open Spectrum Chapter
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2002 Pinkham (US) Citizen Advocacy in the Information Age

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Historic Contributions

Public AffairsDouglas G. Pinkham is president of the Public Affairs Council, the leading international association for public affairs professionals. The Council is a non-partisan, non-political organization that provides training and development, “best practice” information and benchmarking services to the profession.

His experience is focused primarily on helping very large corporations (some would call them dinosaurs) get agrip on citizen advocacy and the power of the network.  As he has shown so many clients, engaging clients, engaging citizens, makes you stronger.  They are NOT a threat, they are a foundation for transformation.  Below is his contribution to OSS '02.  We strongly recommend all of the publications offered by the Public Affairs Council.  Both slides lead to the same briefing.

Doug Pinkham
Doug Pinkham
Doug Pinkham
Doug Pinkham
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2001 Wallach Public Citizen Using Public Intelligence in the Public Interest

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Historic Contributions, Non-Governmental
Lori Wallach
Lori Wallach, Director Public Citizen

Lori M. Wallach has been director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch since 1995.

Lori Wallach applies public intelligence in the public interest, and is a true leader of the emerging Epoch B community of indigenous peoples and independent citizens who value appreciative inquiry deliberative dialog, and responsible advocacy against those elements that seek to destroy the commonwealth–Earth–for the short-term profit of a few.

The below text from special coverage of her by Foreign Policy (Spring 2000) came to us courtesy of Moises Naim and was included in the hand-outs received by those attending OSS '01.

Lori's War (Foreign Policy Spring 2000)
Lori's War (Foreign Policy Spring 2000)
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1998 Talking Points on Hackers

Briefings (Core), Briefings & Lectures, Collective Intelligence

EIN at HOPE

Click on above fpr talking points used for the Jane Wallace show in 1998.  Hackers are an advanced form of Collective Intelligence.

There are three main hacker networks in the Western world, all open and legal: Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) based in the New York City area; Hackers/THINK Conference based in Silicon Valley, and Hac-Tic,  the European network that includes Germany's CHOAS Computer Club, which meets in The Netherlands on alternating years with HOPE.