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Here’s the Right Way to Build the Futuristic Cities of Our Dreams

By Adie Tomer and Rob Puentes
WIRED, 04.23.14

Our technology-first approach has failed the city of the future. So-called “smart cities,” powered by technology, carry the promise of responding to the great pressures of our time, such as urban population growth, climate instability, and fiscal uncertainty. But by focusing on the cutting-edge technologies themselves and relying on private companies to move forward, we have lost sight of what we even want our cities to achieve with all that tech.

To date, smart city conversations mostly trade in optimism, focusing on images of cities without congestion and smart energy meters on every building. Global publications like this one devote space to specific solutions, while television commercials offer a visual taste of how our cities could look in the years ahead. Marketers fuel the fire by estimating a multi-trillion dollar market within a decade.

At what point do we prioritize the municipality–the actual governance of the city–to make great plans?

To help push the industry forward and achieve those trillion dollar market projections, we need to spend as much time and energy creating policy blueprints as we’ve spent researching and marketing new technologies. Smart policies must match smart technologies.

KEY POINTS ONLY::

1. Smart Cities Must Craft an Economic Vision That Includes a Specific Role for Technology

2. Smart Cities Must Use Technology to Promote a Healthy Economy

3. Smart Cities Must Include an Empowered Municipal Technology Executive

4. Smart Cities Must Balance Project Size and Appetite for Risk

5. Smart City Executives Need Stronger Networks and Improved Communication Tools

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2014/04/242014/04/24

Robert Steele: YouTube Broadcast – Links

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, YouTube

ROBERT STEELE: Why Big Data is Stillborn (for Now) + Comments from EIN Technical Council

Robert Steele: PhD Proposal — includes new M4IS2/OSE Conference

2014 Robert Steele: Beyond the Open Source Agency – School of Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance, World Brain Institute, PhD in Comprehensive Architecture

2014/04/242014/04/24

Berto Jongman: Neelie Kroes, VP European Commission, on Threats, Challenges, and Change Needed in the Internet Governance Concept

Advanced Cyber/IO

Her demands sound like OSINT demands in the 1990's.

I will soon be travelling to Sao Paulo to attend NETmundial, the Multi-stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance. The purpose of NETmundial is to develop principles of Internet governance and a roadmap for the future development of this ecosystem.

I have already shared with all of you my thoughts on the draft “outcome document” that I and other members of the High-Level Multi-stakeholder Committee of NETmundial received on 3 April 2014. In the meantime, the organisers of the conference have published a new version of the outcome document and are inviting everyone to send their views and comments – I warmly invite all of you to do so.

I did so, too; I have sent an email to the members of the High Level Multi-stakeholder Committee, to the Chair of the Meeting (Prof. Virgilio Almeida) and to the two co-chairs of the Executive Meeting Committee, Raul Echeberria and Demi Getschko.

Again, in a spirit of transparency, I would like to share the contents of this message with the broader Internet community…. so please read my letter below.

+++ COPY OF THE EMAIL I SENT +++

From: KROES Neelie (CAB-KROES)

Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 7:26 PM

To: ‘hlmc@netmundial.br‘

Subject: Proposals for the NETmundial outcome document

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to see that the draft outcome document for NETmundial has been published and that the broader public has now the possibility to intervene in the discussion, before we all meet in Sao Paulo next week. Again, I would like to thank all the members of the Executive Multistakeholder Committee, as well as the Chair and the Co-Chairs of the meeting, for their tireless work.

As a follow-up to the comments which I have already shared with you, I would like to make some further observations. In the same spirit of transparency as my previous communication, I am also posting a copy of this e-mail on my blog.

I continue to strongly believe that the outcomes of NETmundial must be concrete and actionable, with clear milestones and with a realistic but ambitious timeline. Several reactions to my comments show that I am not alone in thinking that concreteness is paramount to the success of this important gathering; and even though positions on substance may well differ, I believe that my assessment on the necessity of a “change of pace” in these discussions is shared by a broad range of stakeholders.

Read in this light, it is clear me that more work is needed on the latest draft; especially if we consider that a number of public contributions submitted to NETmundial did include concrete and actionable suggestions.

Luckily, several passages of the draft outcome document do lend themselves quite well to being turned into more concrete actions – and we should make full use of this opportunity. I will focus on six specific examples:

Improvements to the multi-stakeholder model
Strengthening the Internet Governance Forum
Tools and mechanisms for better information sharing and capacity building
Globalisation of IANA
Globalisation of ICANN
Jurisdictional issues on the Internet

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2014/04/232014/04/23

Greg Newby on Cognitive Space & Exosomatic Memory

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

Why I'm an information scientist

I believe that information is one of the most powerful phenomena. The ability to access and utilize information can help to overcome obstacles and solve problems. I want to make information more readily available to all people.There are many ways of providing access to information:
- Through better information systems, including information retrieval systems. Thus, IR is one of my main research areas.
- By providing the means of accessing information. Computer & information literacy training is therefore a big part of my curriculum interests at UNC. I also worked to bring about better information access via Prairienet (a community computing system) and iBiblio.
- By actually creating information availability — authoring Web pages and articles and providing unrestricted access. I also work with Project Gutenberg to provide free electronic books (over 100 new [generally pre-1923] books per month).

Major themes in my research

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2014/04/232014/04/23

Eagle: Future of the Internet Debated

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

Future of the internet debated at NetMundial in Brazil

A meeting to determine how the internet should be governed is under way in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The country's president, Dilma Rousseff, organised the two-day NetMundial event following allegations the US National Security Agency (NSA) had monitored her phone and emails.

Last month the US announced plans to give up its oversight of the way net addresses are distributed. But campaigners have warned the move could backfire.

The US currently determines who runs the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), the body responsible for regulating the internet's codes and numbering systems. But Washington now aims to pass the duty over to the “global multi-stakeholder community” by September 2015. Human rights group Article 19 supports that idea, but said there were potential pitfalls.

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2014/04/232014/04/23

Yoda: Hypertemporal Multispectral Imaging & Intelligence

Advanced Cyber/IO

Fun this is.

Hypertemporal imaging: the next Big Challenge for high-performance embedded computing

By John Keller, Editor

Military & Aerospace Electronics, 1 April 2014

It might be a fun exercise to sit with the leading practitioners of high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) to trade opinions about what are the toughest, gnarliest, most knee-buckling HPEC challenges in the foreseeable future.

We would hear the usual — bistatic radar, adaptive electronic warfare (EW), and wide-area communications intelligence. Well, I've got one that's a real beaut, and one that I think we're all going to be hearing a lot more about: hypertemporal imaging for persistent surveillance.

Yeah, it was a new one on me, too. Put simply, hypertemporal imaging involves multispectral or hyperspectral imaging over time. Where persistent surveillance is concerned, it's also a gigantic exercise in gathering gazillions of bits of data, and then throwing most of them away.

Multispectral and hyperspectral imaging involves slicing an image into a few or even many different spectral bands to uncover details that otherwise might be lost. This alone already present a formidable digital signal processing challenge. Now add the dimension of time and the problem grows by orders of magnitude.

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2014/04/222014/04/22

Berto Jongman: 5 Short Videos – Big Data, ICTs and New Media in Times of Crisis

Advanced Cyber/IO

Big Data, ICTs and New Media in Times of Crisis

On March 28, the ISN hosted a Roundtable Discussion on “Big Data, ICTs and Social Media in Times of Crisis,” which featured Mr Sanjana Hattotuwa, who is both a TED Fellow and a Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation. Our purpose today is to share Mr Hattotuwa’s lively presentation, which among other things focuses on how web- and mobile-based media have enhanced our ability to respond to complex emergencies, and to participate in ‘organic’ political processes. The presentation is then augmented by the question and answer session that followed in its wake.

In our first video, Sanjana Hattotuwa outlines how Big Data, as disseminated by ICTs and social media, is increasingly functioning as the “nervous system of the world.”

In the next video, Mr Hattotuwa performs two tasks – he elaborates on the links between Big Data and traditional media reporting, and then details how data derived from ICTs has been increasingly used to cope with natural disasters and other complex emergencies.

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