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Spy Service Translates World's Papers at Secret Cost; Mr. Hounsell Has Few Buyers

Phi Beta Iota: Worth a full read (click on headline). One word summary: “stagnant.” Neither the DNI nor the CIA nor DoD nor anyone else is serious about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), known as “Open Sores” within the secret and largely useless U.S. Intelligence Community, which provides, 4% “at best” according to General Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret) of what any senior commander needs, and nothing tailored to the needs of everyone else according to Robert Steele, OSINT proponent since 1988. If Congress were not so busy steam-rolling pork through secret channels as the open ones dry up–if Congress had any integrity at all–it would be asking the fundamental question: if we spent $3 billion on a proper Open Source Agency, how much of the $70-90 billion secret fraud, waste, and abuse could we eliminate? The answer? 50% in quick time, 75% over six years. Meanwhile, the real world is now routing around the US Government.

Continue reading “1992-2012 CIA Still Does Not “Get” Open Source”

2011/03/08

Freedom Box: The Short Pitch as of March 2011

Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), microfinancing, Mobile, Peace Intelligence, Privacy, Real Time, Reform, Technologies

FreedomBox right now as I see it

by James Vasile as posted to HackerVisions, a blog at the intersection of Freedom, Technology, & Community

People have been asking me for a short description of the FreedomBox that doesn’t get too technical but also gets into some details. So here’s my capsule pitch, a short form version of how I see the FreedomBox right now:

The FreedomBox just raised $80K in donations via Kickstarter (the campaign is still going on, if you want to donate) on the strength of positive press in the NYTimes, WSJ, Wired and CBS Evening News. We’re at the very beginning of putting together a team to build this thing. This week we will announce our tech lead, an A+ name with the experience and contacts to lead our architecture design.

Continue reading “Freedom Box: The Short Pitch as of March 2011”

2011/03/07

Simultaneous Policy–A Collaborative Concept

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Government

to solve them could effectively make its country economically uncompetitive, leading to inflation, unemployment, or even economic collapse.

Simpol aims to break the vicious circle governments find themselves in by encouraging people around the world to oblige their politicians and governments to cooperate globally in implementing appropriate policies simultaneously for the good of all.

Only by implementing policies simultaneously can our problems be resolved in a way that no nation, corporation, or citizen loses out. If all nations act together, everybody wins.

WORTH A LOOK

2011/03/042011/04/11

5 Key Issues Impacting the Future of Facebook

Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice

As part of the Future of Facebook Project and Open Foresight process, we’re asking the crowd for their opinions and forecasts on the same 15 questions we’ve asked our interviewees. Questions are posted on Quora, but can also be answered here on the blog or on our Facebook Page.

Here are some interesting and thought-provoking answers we’ve seen so far. We’ll be integrating our favorites into the final video series, so add your thoughts and join us as producers of the future!

1. Social Graph & Sentiment Data Usage .. 2. Partnerships with Brands .. 3. Higher Education .. 4. Signal to Noise Ratio .. 5. How We See Ourselves and the World

Add your views to the Future of Facebook Project topic on Quora!

Check out our kickstarter video here

Thanks to Producers Sean Park, Dr. William Ward, and Debra Farber, and to all supporters of the Future of Facebook Project!

Original Post

See Also:

2010 Imagining the Internet

2008 Future of the Internet

2008 Future of the Internet Economy

2011/03/042011/03/04

Crisis Mapping Libya: This Is No Haiti…

05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Mobile, Peace Intelligence, Policies, Real Time

Crisis Mapping Libya: This is No Haiti

Patrick Meier

March 4, 2011 at 8:14 am

We activated the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) on March 1st and quickly launched a Crisis Map of Libya to support humanitarian preparedness opera-tions. This is the largest deployment of the Task Force since it was formed at the 2010 International Conference on Crisis Mapping in Boston (ICCM 2010). I'm amazed at how far we've come since the response to the Haiti earthquake.

Phi Beta Iota: We've been championing Open Everything since 1988, each year growing from our first realization that Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) was urgently needed to bring government back to accountability, legitimacy, and sanity through transparency. Below are two graphics, two briefings and two chapters that summarize our recent work in this area. Here we want to emphazize the emergence of the Autonomous Internet Road Map and the fact that the Crisis Mapping initiative is a very strong manifestation of the power of public intelligence in the public interest.

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Graphic: Open Everything

Graphic: Intelligence Maturity Scale

2010 M4IS2 Briefing for South America — 2010 M4IS2 Presentacion por Sur America (ANEPE Chile)

2010 The Ultimate Hack Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth (Chapter for Counter-Terrorism Book Out of Denmark)

2007 Open Everything: We Won, Let’s Self-Govern

Seven Answers–Robert Steele in Rome

2011/03/03

Reference: Crisis Mapping

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Augmented Reality, Autonomous Internet, Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Ethics, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), International Aid, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Key Players, Maps, Methods & Process, microfinancing, Mobile, Open Government, Policies, Real Time, Reform, Threats, Tools

220px-Michel_Bauwens_crop — Michel Bauwens

part of http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Geography

and updated via http://delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Mapping

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Autonomous [Free, Distributed] Internet

2011/03/022011/03/02

Five Major Trends in Advance Cyber-Social

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Mobile, Real Time

2 Mar

Five major trends to watch right now

Posted by Ric Merrifield

I spend a lot of time looking at and writing about disruptive business models, and lately I have been talking about a handful that I think are really meaningful that will continue to mature over time and work their way into lots of other industries. 1) Friending. 2) Getting nothing, but paying for it. 3) Getting something, but not paying for it. 4) David beating Goliath. 5) Adding a third party to two party transactions. Visit Blog for full text accompanying each of the above. Phi Beta Iota: At DEMO Spring 2011 the deep persistent theme was the embedding of social media into everything. This is also one of the themes in Jane McGonigal's book, Reality Is Broken–Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.