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2011/08/052011/08/05

Patrick Meier: Crisis Crowd Sourcing the Diaspora

Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, IO Deeds of Peace, IO Technologies, Policies

Crisis Mapping Somalia with the Diaspora

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Patrick Meier| Leave a comment

The state of Minnesota is home to the largest population of Somalis in North America. Like any Diaspora, the estimated 25,000 Somalis who live there ar closely linked to family members back home. They make thousands of phone calls every week to numerous different locations across Somalia. So why not make the Somali Diaspora a key partner in the humanitarian response taking place half-way across the world?

In Haiti, Mission 4636 was launched to crowdsource micro needs assessments from the disaster affected population via SMS. The project could not have happened without hundreds of volunteers from the Haitian Diaspora who translated and geo-referenced the incoming text messages. There’s no doubt that Diasporas can play a pivotal role in humanitarian response but they are typically ignored by large humanitarian organizations. This is why I’m excited to be part of an initiative that plans to partner with key members of the Diaspora to create a live crisis map of Somalia.

Reference: No More Secrets – Open Source Intelligence/Intelligence Reform Fight Round II

Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Key Players, Officers Call, Policies, Serious Games, Threats

Updated 4 Aug 2011 to add M4IS2

Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2)

2012 Manifesto for Truth: Expanding the Open Source Revolution (Evolver Editions, July 2012)

2010: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Updated

2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability

2006 Briefing to the Coalition Coordination Center (CCC) Leadership at the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)–Multinational Intelligence: Can CENTCOM Lead the Way? Reflections on OSINT & the Coalition

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Short Review by Retired Reader

Long Review by Robert Steele

Reference: Open Source Agency (OSA) III

Reference: Open Source Agency (OSA) II

Reference: Open Source Agency (OSA) I

2011/08/04

John Robb: Operation Shady Rat vs Sleeping Dog

03 Economy, Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom

Operation Shady Rat. Sustained, silent, IP theft from 70 organizations across 14 countries. More. What we have witnessed over the past five to six years has been nothing short of a historically unprecedented transfer of wealth — closely guarded national secrets (including from classified government networks), source code, bug databases, email archives, negotiation plans and exploration details for new oil and gas field auctions, document stores, legal contracts, SCADA configurations, design schematics and much more has “fallen off the truck” of numerous, mostly Western companies and disappeared in the ever-growing electronic archives of dogged adversaries.

Phi Beta Iota: This is not new! What is new is the desperation of the Pentagon and its contractors to find a new threat justifying gross waste in the face of new taxpayer outrage over borrowing a trillion a year to pay for things we do not need and cannot afford. What most do not understand is that those nations that do industrial espionage on this scale also have the brains to devote humans to the cherry-picking task, which is non-trivial and labor intensive. CIA and NSA have never been about a sufficiency of humans–at CIA, in the early days of cyber-espionage, one reports officer walked off the job when handed a print-out of everything stolen in one pass by one device. Cyber-war is a scam, plain and simple. We should be focusing on responsible communications and computing architectures, and on open sources of information in 183 languages we don't understand. Until then, Shady Rat will continue to kick Sleeping Dog's ass.

See Also:

Graphic: Cyber-Threat 101

2010: OPINION–America’s Cyber Scam

The Cyber Racket

Reference: Bruce Schneier on Cyber War & Cyber Crime

Review: War by Other Means–Economic Espionage in America

Review: Friendly Spies–How America’s Allies Are Using Economic Espionage to Steal Our Secrets

2011/08/03

Pierre Levy: New Media Literacies (12 of Them)

04 Education, 11 Society, Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence

This is interesting!

The New Media Literacies

EXTRACT (12 Literacies)

01 Play: the capacity to experiment with one's surroundings as a form of problem-solving. Having a strong sense of play can be helpful when you pick up a new piece of technology that you've never used before, when you're trying to write an essay and your outline isn't functioning as you'd hoped, and when you're designing anything at all, from a dress to a web page to a concert's program.

02 Performance: the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery. Being able to move fluidly and effectively between roles can help you when you're exploring online communities, when you're trying to decide what actions are ethical, and when you're shuffling between home, work and school.

03 Simulation: the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes. Being able to interpret, manipulate and create simulations can help you understand innumerable complex systems, like ecologies and computer networks – and make you better at playing video games!

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2011/08/032011/08/03

$250 Device Global Maps & Text Messages

Advanced Cyber/IO, Mobile

$250 for the unit, communications plans from $9.95

The DeLorme inReach continues our effort to keep people connected when they travel outside of cell phone range. With the inReach, you can send AND RECEIVE text messages with true pole-to-pole global coverage. The inReach can be used by itself, with the DeLorme Earthmate PN-60w GPS, or with smartphones running the Android OS!

The DeLorme inReach will require a subscription to access the tracking, messaging, and SOS features. Current plans are to offer three levels: Safety, Recreation, and Pro, with prices starting at $9.95 per month for the safety plan and increasing to offer more in-plan message and tracking units. Plan options will include the ability to move between plan level, if, for example, you find yourself very active in the summer months but only needing safety features during the winter months.

Phi Beta Iota: In an earlier post, we highlighted the conversion device that for $169 (plus satellite access fees if not subsidized) would turn any cell phone into a satellite phone. Liberation technology is advancing. What is not advancing is the Autonomous Internet and free access for the three billion poor, where OpenBTS could be poised for a break-out.

Tip of the Hat to John Robb.

2011/08/02

Seth Godin: When the Truth is Near — Do You Avoid It?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Ethics

When the truth is just around the corner

…what's your posture?

Sometimes, we get close to finding out who we really are, what's the status of our situation, what's holding us back. When one of those conversations is going on, do you lean in, eager for more, or do you back off, afraid of what it will mean?

Do you go out of your way to learn about your habits, relationships and strengths? Or what's driving traffic to your website? Or why you didn't get that job?

When your organization has a chance to see itself as its customers do, do your leaders crowd around, trying to glean every insight they can about the story and your future, or do they prefer the status quo?

There are more mirrors available than ever. Sometimes, though, what's missing is the willingness to take a look.

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