The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: Recommended for a sense of what is considered worthy of being on the program. Philosophy is addressed in the plenary panel (“Is the Internet a Human Right”) and in at least one very focused session. The concept of the Autonomous Internet is not center stage at this event.
Twitcident: Filtering Tweets in Real-Time for Crisis Response
The most recent newcomer to the “tweetsourcing” space comes to us from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Twitcident is a web-based filtering system that extracts crisis information from Twitter in real-time to support emergency response efforts. Dutch emergency services have been testing the platform over the past 10 months and results “show the system to be far more useful than simple keyword searching of a twitter feed” (NewScientist).
Here's how it works. First the dashboard, which shows current events-of-interest being monitored.
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I look forward to following Twitcident's developments. I'd be particularly interested in learning more about how Dutch emergency services have been using the tool and what features they think would improve the platform's added value.
Berto Jongman: Here is the reference paper:
Twitcident: Fighting Fire with Information from Social Web Streams
See Also:
Graphic: Twitter as an Intelligence Tool
Howard Rheingold: News Filters for the Future – Technical Services or Human Networks?
Howard Rheingold: Open Source Intelligence Meets Real-Time News and Data Curation – SwiftRiver
Mini-Me: Bin Laden death-detecting analytics service signs partnership with Twitter
Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping Syria – Automated Data Mining and Crowdsourced Human Intelligence
Patrick Meier: Mobile Technologies, Crisis Mapping, & Disaster Response
Paul Fernhout: Open Letter to the Intelligence Advanced Programs Research Agency (IARPA)
Why we need to bypass electrical utilities if we want to build a low carbon society
Excerpted from Bill St. Arnaud:
“I have long argued that we need to bypass electrical utilities if we want to build a low carbon society.
Utilities, even if they are publicly owned, have an inherent economic incentive to use cheap and dirty coal or gas, as they then earn the generating revenue. With distributed solar panels at homes and business the customer earns the revenue and the utility becomes a dumb pipe. Heard that argument before? Just as we had to bypass the telephone company to build the global Internet we will need to bypass the utilities to build the future Energy Internet.
Currently the entire electrical grid is built around an architecture of large centralized generating stations. A low carbon electrical grid will need an entire different architecture – and it already exists. It is called our roadway system. With electric vehicles we can use them as a store and forward packet technology to deliver renewable energy from roadside solar panels or windmills. Not only does this enable delivery of renewable energy to homes and businesses bypassing the utilities and existing electrical grid, it also provides a clean and efficient transportation system that complements our western lifestyle.”
For more details on the Energy Internet please see green-broadband.blogspot.ca/2012/02/stanford-university-research-on-dynamic.html
2012-04-13 Cook Report Technology Economy and Public Interest
Phi Beta Iota: Gordon Cook sets the gold standard for thoughtful integrated observations and analysis of the Internet. His materials is read by the greatest of pioneers such as Vint Cerf, as well as by those who aspire to be pionoeers, such as those building the Freedom Tower and the Autonomous Internet Roadmap. Some say data is the new dirt. Others say data is the new gold. We say that cyber is the new world mind, in which humans, information, and the connections among them become the World Brain and implement a transparency so strong that it eradicates corruption and ends fraud, waste, and abuse against the many and in favor of the few.
See Also:
THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust
2012-04-13 Cook Report Peer to Peer Freedom Tower
Phi Beta Iota: This is a hugely important reference work, the first of its kind, and very strongly recommended to all who care about human dignity, human freedom, and human evolution.
See Also:
THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
2012 PREPRINT FOR COMMENT: The Craft of Intelligence
A few thoughts:
1) You should make clear the difference between three time domains. in the short and immediate term, members of the Professional Protector Caste (PPC) have many and diverse needs for tactical secrecy, from police stake-outs of criminals to confidential de-briefings of defectors, to clandestine military or intelligence operations. Critics are right to worry about the human-nature tendency to use secrecy to cover nefarious activities, or to simply evade accountability for errors. But this worry is substantially eased if tactical secrets carry time limits. Only the most sensitive matters should qualify for an inherently limited number of very long term or indefinite secret classifications and those should bear an actual financial cost to the agency in question, making it a rare and special recourse.
This would go hand in hand with the vital importance of the longer time scale. Over the course of years and decades, one fact rises paramount above all others. The western, “pax Americana” civilization approach to governance… with its emphasis on individual liberties and sovereignty, science, negotiation and mixed-competitive problem solving tools… is the only one that systematically benefits from a general secular trend toward ever-increasing transparency and openness in the world.
In sharp contrast, every rival system, from communism to islamic fundamentalism to Sino-mercantilist state capitalism, all suffer near-lethal allergic reactions to the application of light.
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