Category: IO Deeds of Peace

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Patrick Meier: Summary of Recent Accomplishments

Advanced Cyber/IO, Drones & UAVs, IO Deeds of Peace, IO Mapping, IO Sense-Making, IO Technologies
Patrick Meier
Patrick Meier

QED – Goodbye Doha, Hello Adventure!

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I joined the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) well over 3 years ago with a very specific mission and mandate: to develop and deploy next generation humanitarian technologies. So I built the Institute’s Social Innovation Program from the ground up and recruited the majority of the full-time experts (scientists, engineers, research assistants, interns & project manager) who have become integral to the Program’s success.

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Open Power: Open Source Activist Tool-Kit

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, IO Deeds of Peace, Liberation Technology
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We are splitting Open Power in three to make it easier for the different constituencies to work with what particularly interests them.The original will remain focused on the Electoral Reform Act of 2015. Libertarians and those who love Alex Jones can go to http://tinyurl.com/OpenPower-Libertarian. Here is the Tiny URL for the secondary focus on the Open Source Activist Tool-Kit: http://tinyurl.com/OpenPower-Tools.

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Chuck Spinney: Iranian Ambassador Itemizes Lies & Misrepresentations by Israel’s Prime Minister

Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of Peace
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

The author of the below op-ed is the Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations.  It is worth reading carefully, because  this op-ed is well sourced, and Ambassador Khoshroo’s argument with respect to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s penchant for threat inflation can be compared to Gareth Porter’s history of Israel’s gaming to the Iranian threat. 

A Response to Netanyahu From Iran’s Ambassador to the U.N.

By GHOLAMALI  KHOSHROO

New York Times (Op-Ed), MARCH 3, 2015

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George Por: Integral Mindfulness, Wisdom Society, and Collective Sentience

Civil Society, Ethics, IO Deeds of Peace, IO Sense-Making
George Por
George Por

Integral Mindfulness, Wisdom Society, and Collective Sentience: an exploration into the next stage of human consciousness

Abstracts of my paper for the Mindfulness & Compassion conference in San Francisco, 3-7 June

This contribution to the “Mindfulness & Compassion” conference is focused on where the moral compass of integral mindfulness points. Being integrally mindful is about taking mindfulness off the meditation cushion and infusing all dimensions of our life with it; not only the life of you and me, but also of collective entities, such as organizations, networks, nations.

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