The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
From Abe Lederman and Deep Web Technologies, both long among our “top ten” serious endeavors to admire and leverage.
Other variations (not free) are dedicated to science (2), energy, environment, and medicine. Product Trial Page
Sam Leon, one of Open Knowledge’s data experts, talks about his experiences working as an School of Data Embedded Fellow at Global Witness.
Phi Beta Iota: We are seeing convergence. See also #TrueCost and #ConflictFree
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Robert Steele: Kudos to Intel – #ConflictFree Toward #TrueCost?
A little talk on why we should decentralize the internet…
From the Speaker: As technology is being used to control humanity more and more there lies an unsuspecting beacon of hope that will change everything. The decentralized internet! Watch as this lamen explains these concepts for other lamen. Spread the hype!
Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: YouTube (4:29) Decentralized Internet”
Computing Research Institutes as an Innovation Pathway for Humanitarian Technology
The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) is an initiative by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to improve humanitarian action. The Summit, which is to be held in 2016, stands to be one of the most important humanitarian conferences in a decade. One key pillar of WHS is humanitarian innovation. “Transformation through Innovation” is the WHS Working Group dedicated to transforming humanitarian action by focusing explicitly on innovation. I have the pleasure of being a member of this working group where my contribution focuses on the role of new technologies, data science and advanced computing. As such, I’m working on an applied study to explore the role of computing research institutes as an innovation pathway for humanitarian technology. The purpose of this blog post is to invite feedback on the ideas presented below.
Yes, Isis exploits technology. But that’s no reason to compromise our privacy
GCHQ’s new chief would do well to remember that sending encrypted emails doesn’t make you a criminal
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So if Mr Hannigan really wants to have a “mature” debate about this stuff, a good place to start would be with an assurance that citizens who use these tools simply to ensure that their private, lawful communications remain private will not be targeted for surveillance by his new subordinates. In an insecure world, cryptography is a tool for everyone.
Brown Dog Chases Answer to Uncurated Data
Depending on one’s field, it may seem like every bit of information in existence is now just an Internet search away. However, as researchers well know, there is a wealth of potentially crucial information that is still difficult to access. In fact, GCN tells us that marketing firm IDC estimates up to 90 percent of “big data” falls into this category. GCN also turns our attention to a potential solution in, “Brown Dog Digs Into the Deep, Dark Web.”
Brown Dog is a project out of the National Center for Supercomputing Application [NCSA] at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2013, the team received a $10 million, five-year award from the National Science Foundation for the project. Already, they have developed two services that facilitate access to uncurated data collections. The write-up reports:
Anonymous to RT: ‘Internet has power to bring down regimes’
