Nader Ale Ebrahim: Open Knowledge

Access, Advanced Cyber/IO, Peace Intelligence
Nader Ale Ebrahim
Nader Ale Ebrahim

The Future of Knowledge Sharing for Development in a Digital Age: Delivering an open and fair digital society.

Rachel Playforth introduces a new report on how digital technologies might contribute to or damage development agendas in the coming years. Through scenario development planning, the project investigated the landscape of developing countries in the digital age and how practitioners and policymakers might best respond. None of the scenarios below represents the most desirable outcome, but by working backwards from an ideal future, participants were able to develop key strategies for positive change.

Pierre Cloutier: Quebec Heads for Independence UPDATE 1

08 Wild Cards, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Peace Intelligence
Pierre Cloutier
Pierre Cloutier

Worth listening to very carefully. Listen specially at 1.53.03 in English. This is the first time a chief of the Parti Québécois says these things in English.

Phi Beta Iota: By 2025, no later, we expect Quebec, Scotland, Hawaii, and Vermont to be sovereign republics. If the USA wishes to retain its geographic integrity, it had better re-establish political integrity. Electoral reform is non-negotiable.

UPDATE 1: YouTube (2:32) English portion of Quebec Independence Speech

YouTube (2:06:44) Below the Line. HISTORIC.

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Rob Hall: Visions of a Positive Future

Cultural Intelligence
Rob Kall
Rob Kall

Visions of a Positive Future vs Fixing a Pathological Present

it is not enough to resist or fight the system and the problems that exist. It is absolutely inadequate to aim for repairing the symptoms of what is broken. We need big, positive visions which lift our sights higher, towards horizons where there are bright futures, not scotch tape and bubblegum fixes for the pathological system we currently inhabit.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Natural Intelligence — Superior to Human Intelligence?

Cultural Intelligence
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Our view of what constitutes intelligence may be skewed. Certainly we can't be proud of behaving intelligently if we consider our influence on the eco-environment that we are embedded in.

What If Humans Aren't the Most Intelligent Creatures on the Planet?

Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd makes a good argument in a recent Facebook post that perhaps humans concept of intelligence is anthropocentric and lacking in breadth.

Evan Ellis: China Arms Sales Grow in South America

02 China, 08 Wild Cards, Commerce, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence
Evan Ellis
Evan Ellis

Should U.S. be worried about Chinese arms sales in the region?

To some degree, Chinese weapons are capturing market share from Russian systems in states that have traditionally been anti-U.S. as well as in other parts of the region. Indeed, the electronics in some Chinese systems and the quality of Chinese support in maintenance and spare parts is now considered better than that of comparable Russian systems.

Such sales also multiply opportunities for China to strengthen its military-to-military relationships with the region through the training of Latin American personnel on the Chinese systems, as well as creating a possible demand for an in-region People’s Liberation Army (PLA) military training and maintenance presence in the future…

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SchwartzReport: Iceland to End Bank Money Creation?

03 Economy, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, Ethics, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

I follow Iceland because like the Scandanavian countries it is one of the nations where the new wellness oriented policies are developing. This one is very dramatic and will change the world's economy as it is more widely adopted. I don't think it will happen in America because the banks have so many liegemen in the Congress, as Paul Krugman points out.

Iceland looks at ending boom and bust with radical money plan

Icelandic government suggests removing the power of commercial banks to create money and handing it to the central bank