Seven years ago Tom Atlee, our mentor on collective intelligence and community self-organization for resilience and sustainability, began focusing on “ways of communicating.” Responding to a recent query from us about alternatives to partisan politics or dictatorships, he offered up the below links, each of which has many other links, as food for reflection.

1. Designing Multi-Process Public Participation Programs

2. A map of Community Intelligence and some of its important constituents

3. Approaches to Community Engagement and the Generation of Community Wisdom

The latter offers a 1-paragraph description of each of almost 50 processes).

And, of course, there is Tree Bressen et al

4. A Pattern Language for Group Process

Below is a general commentary he offered on “modalities” as a mixed bag.

Continue reading “Worth a Look: Communications, Communities, & Modalities”

2010/12/28

Worth a Look: LibraryThing Online Public Library & Social Network

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Phi Beta Iota: This is fascinating and has enormous potential from local to global. It is what Amazon SHOULD have been, a means of harnessing the distributed intelligence of authors, reviewers, and readers. Phi Beta Iota was created to meet this need for one collection, cataloging Robert Steele's reading across 98 categories. We are contacting this group to suggest they create Global to Local Citizen Intelligence, Policy, and Budget Councils.

2010/12/27

Reference: The Core Protocols V. 3.02

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Historic Contributions, Methods & Process

The Core Protocols V. 3.02

(The Core is distributed under the terms of the GNU-PL. For exact terms see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt. The Core is considered as source code under that agreement. You are free to use and distribute this work or any derivations you care to make, provided you also distribute this source document in its entirety, including this paragraph.)

The following Core Protocols are made up of both commitments and protocols.

The Core Commitments
Pass (Unpass)
Check In
Check Out
Ask For Help
Protocol Check
Intention Check
Decider
Resolution
Personal Alignment
Investigate

Read full details on all of the above….

Tip of the Hat to Pétur Orri Sæmundsen in Iceland.

2010/12/27

Iceland Charts Its Course with Integrity

About the Idea, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Methods & Process

2009 First Results from the National Assembly

Integrity is the value the representatives of the National Assembly considered most important for society. Equal rights, respect and justice follow. Next are love, responsibility, freedom, sustainability and democracy. The family, equality and trust are also high priorities.

2010 The main conclusions from the National Forum

COUNTRY AND NATION – Values and related issues regarding the independence of the country, culture and its advantages such as vision, the value of the Icelandic language and the country’s rural areas. The constitution is a covenant which guarantees sovereignty and independence for Icelanders and is written for the people in the country. The role of the constitution is to guard the Icelandic language, its culture and the nation’s resources. It should be introduced in schools and it must be guaranteed that the public can have a say in decisions regarding national affairs. The image of Iceland shall be strengthened, multiculturalism encouraged as well as separation between state and religion.

MORALITY – General moral values without special connection with government or politics such as honesty, respect, responsibility, tolerance, justice and sympathy. The constitution shall be based on moral values. The morality theme of the new constitution shall be respect for humans, freedom of speech and consideration. An emphasis shall be on the honesty of elected representatives, public officials, laws and legal ethics. To strengthen and improve the morality of the nation, ethics should be taught in the country’s schools and the social responsibility of the public must be increased. In Iceland a clear framework must be set up by which the authorities must work, focusing on respect, responsibility and duties towards the country's people.

Robert Garigue & Robert Steele: From Old IO to New IO

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Citizen-Centered, Collection, Earth Orientation, Geospatial, ICT-IT, Innovation, Languages-Translation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Processing, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats, Tribes, True Cost

Garigue-Steele Old to New 2.0 — Click to Enlarge

Old Information Operations (IO) is too focused on the “Maginot Line” of legacy technology badly integrated and poorly understood. New Information Operations (IO) is the “Maneuver Warfare” of the Information Age. The integrity is in the user and data, not the system. Truth & trust rather than deception & jamming are the primordal enablers.

This is an improvisation working off Robert Garigue's slide, “Control Framework is a hierarchy of accountability structures”from his briefing,Robert Garigue: The New Information Security Agenda–Managing the Emerging Semantic Risks and Robert Steele's slide, Epoch B Leadership. It is NOT POSSIBLE to “command” cyber-security from the “top down.” One can only build in accountability and resiliency–which is to say, intelligence and integrity–from the bottom up. Education, not technology, is the core change agent. Human-centered design driven by intelligence is the architect, NOT pseudo-engineering from contractors seeking profit at any cost.

See Also:

Graphic: Balance Matters

Graphic: Business Intelligence Hits the Wall

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2010/12/252010/12/25

Robert Garigue: Security as the Guarantor of Values Executed by Systems–Security as Truth & Trust

Advanced Cyber/IO, Citizen-Centered, ICT-IT, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Processing, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes, True Cost

Robert Garigue Values Executed by Systems Lite — Click to Enlarge

This is a hugely important slide, and in our view a major advance in understanding of the function of security–it is NOT about defense per se, but rather about accountability and reliability–security is a guarantor of the values of truth & trust as embedded in every datum, every algorithm, every function, every time sequence.

As Found In:

Robert Garigue: The New Information Security Agenda–Managing the Emerging Semantic Risks

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Robert Garigue: Truth & Trust as Security Requirements

Advanced Cyber/IO, Historic Contributions, ICT-IT, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes, True Cost

Robert Garigue Truthfulness Lite — Click to Enlarge

This is the first and only time we have seen truth & trust properly identified as fundamental to security. The only other related works are those of Dr. Col Max Manwaring, whose edited work, The Search for Security–A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Twenty-First Century makes the point that legitimacy is the core value enabling peace and prosperty; and the Nobel Prize awarded in the 1990's to the scholar that demonstrated that trust lowers the cost of doing business.

Cyber-space, if it is to contribute to the evolution of humanity, must be imbued with truth & trust. THIS is the core focus of any information security program in support of information operations, NOT “mere” “control” of potential data loss or “defeat” of potential enemies. We sorely miss Robert Garigue–he was illuminating a very righteous path, and to our knowledge, none have stepped forth to fill his shoes.

As Found In:

Robert Garigue: The New Information Security Agenda–Managing the Emerging Semantic Risks