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2011/04/23

Government 2.0 Melds with Crowd-Sourcing

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process, Open Government, Policies, Reform, Serious Games, Strategy, Threats, Waste (materials, food, etc)

In Oakland, A Creative Strategy for Financing the City's Solar Roofs

Using a new “crowdfunding” program called Solar Mosaic, the city is selling solar tiles to locals for $100 a pop and installing them on public buildings

By Maria Gallucci, SolveClimate News

Apr 22, 2011

The city of Oakland, Calif., is getting its residents to help build out a clean energy economy, one solar tile at a time.

By selling 5,000 tiles at $100 each to locals, the city is aiming to piece together entire rooftop solar arrays at seven budget-strapped schools, youth centers and houses of worship. A team of Oaklanders will be trained and hired to install the panels by as early as July.

The city's efforts are part of a pilot program called Solar Mosaic, a web-based marketplace for community solar initiatives that launched on April 15.

Using the “crowdfunding” model, residents can help generate energy savings and scale back greenhouse gas emissions without having to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for a solar installation at home.

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Phi Beta Iota: The existing tax system in the USA is so corrupt it must be abolished. The public is now ready for line-item crowd-sourcing and the fully-transparent Automated Payments/Transaction Tax.

Serious (Honest) Thinking About US Budget

2011/04/222011/04/22

On Intelligence–Out of Touch Squared

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), IO Impotency, Methods & Process, Military, Peace Intelligence

A very interesting article by Chuck. Earlier I was thinking along similar lines about how the Military Intelligence System has devolved in the same manner as our air strategy.

When I first signed up, the Army had a number of sites in far flung places with strange sounding names. The advantage was the people working their were somewhat in tune with the psychological mindset of the people who lived in proximity to the “threat”. When they were concerned it raised our awareness of activities by the “other side”. The local population always had better intelligence than we did, but it was an indicator that we picked up on and used to focus our efforts.

Enter technology (re: US Air Force) resulting in the consolidation of intelligence activities to major fixed bases (somewhat like our overall military strategy – hunker down). We no longer have that view of the population, hell, we don't have any concept of the human terrain in those areas or anywhere else (with the exception of Korea where we have not run away).

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2011/04/222011/04/22

Dutch Thinking: Roads to Be Solar Panels

05 Energy, Cultural Intelligence

solar-road-design — Click on Image to Enlarge

Dutch To Build Solar Panels Into Their Roads, Starting With Bike Lanes

by Alex Davies, Paris, France on 04.22.11

Science & Technology, treehugger.com

The Dutch are well known for their ubiquitous bike lanes, to the point where Amsterdam is neck and neck with Copenhagen for the title of most bike-loving capital in Europe. Now, Denmark will have to come up with something big to match the latest plan from the Netherlands – the installation of solar panels in roads, starting with bike lanes.

Talk about the efficient use of space: if you're going to have roads (and hopefully you'll have bike lanes), why not put that space to work producing energy? Called the Solaroad, the project is the brainchild of Dutch research firm TNO. The idea is pretty straightforward: a layer of concrete forms the road itself. A centimeter thick layer of crystalline silicon solar cells is laid on top, and covered by a layer of toughened glass. The energy potential: 50kWh per square meter per year, which can then be used to power street lighting, traffic systems and households.

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See Also:

Arno Reuser

2011/04/222011/04/22

Obama Pakistanizes [Undeclared] War on Libya

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Articles & Chapters, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Military, Officers Call

REFERENCE

Obama Takes the Cape

Pakistanizing the Libyan War

By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch

Weekend Edition, April 22 – 24, 2011

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In other words, someone has sold Obama on Pakistaning the Libyan War, i.e., pursuing a military strategy of relying on drone attacks to a destroy an adversary hiding in the environmental background. What is astonishing is that Obama took the cape, despite the fact that only 12 days earlier, a report in the Los Angeles Times by David Cloud illustrated once again the absurdity of Cartwright's and Gates' claims.

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2011/04/222011/04/22

Obama & Facebook: Clueless on DEEP Innovation

03 Economy, 04 Education, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Methods & Process

Why Facebook Town Hall Shows Obama is Missing the Point on Innovation

Haydn Shaughnessy

Re:thinking Innovation

Yesterday’s Town Hall meeting at Facebook produced one big surprise – the tepid questioning fired at President Obama from America’s tech elite.

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[Instead of Obama and Facebook look to Don Tapscott and collective intelligence…]

Tapscott’s take on the current state of the economy?

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2011/04/212011/04/21

Ancient History: When the CIA was Serious…

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Intelligence (government)

CIA Decides Not to Get Serious: Memories of a Lost Time and Place

“These documents remained classified for nearly a century until recent advancements in technology made it possible to release them,” CIA Director Leon E. Panetta said. “When historical information is no longer sensitive, we take seriously our responsibility to share it with the American people.” The Director released this statement on the occasion of CIA’s declassification of a handful of WWI documents describing the use of invisible ink for secret messages. CIA originally claimed that these documents had to be classified because they contained information that could be used to identify sources and methods used today (2011)! This whole affair demonstrates to me that CIA has ceased to be a serious intelligence organization.

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2011/04/21

Game Changer? Internet2 Open Science Open Flow

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Below I am sharing an important email from Bill St. Arnaud, as received.

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At the this weeks spring Internet 2 meeting there was a major announcement on Internet 2’s new Open Science, Scholarship and Services Exchange (OS3E) initiative. This could be a real game changer. OS3E embodies the concept of “software defined networks” where users (or network operators) can configure their own network topology and architectures using OpenFlow as the underlying enabling technology. For those who are familiar with the technology will recognize many of the same features and capabilities in CANARIE’s UCLP. “UCLP is a software system that allows end-users, either people or sophisticated applications, to treat network resources as software objects and provision and reconfigure lightpaths within a single domain or across multiple, independently managed, domains. Users can also join or divide lightpaths and hand off control and management of these larger or smaller private sub-networks to other users. “

What is exciting to me about OS3E, and one of the original drivers of UCLP, is the fact that it may fundamentally change the future of R&E networking globally.

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