The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
On stage, McGrath reiterated: “I think that open source intelligence is one of our biggest assets in understanding secret surveillance program because it’s something that can’t be shut down and it’s something that can be collected in a very decent decentralized fashion,” he said. “We have the potential to actually build a surveillance state that is a decentralize check on the surveillance state based on this open data.”
http://rt.com/usa/256285-republica-mcgrath-icwatch-database/
I am very pleased to see new interest in my original posts on The Human Factor, augmented by thoughtful contributions from others. The most popular is below, the rest are lined up below the fold.
Good, this is.
Obama administration approves Cuba ferry service licenses
Three human qualities technology can't replace in the future economy
EXTRACT
In this article I’ll go a little further to explore why human decision-making and understanding are based on more than intelligence; they are based on experience and values. I’ll also explore what would be required to ever get to the point at which computers could acquire a similar level of sophistication, and why I think it would be misguided to pursue that goal. In contrast I’ll suggest how we could look instead at human experience, values and judgement as the basis of a successful future economy for everyone.
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CIO as chief integration officer
A public sector perspective
Technology is the glue that connects programs and people, and helps information flow in the public sector, making it an essential component of everyday public sector operations. That puts the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in a unique position to take on the important job of integrating decision-makers and stakeholders.
Humanitarian UAV Missions in Nepal: Early Observations
Phi Beta Iota: Worth a full read. We are reminded of DARPA's STRONG ANGEL and note with interest that the Internet being down in Nepal makes a lot of the UAV collection irrelevant — sort of like NSA's global collection that is not processed and 99% of “big data” not being processed (per Mary Meeker). The lack of bandwidth, lack of processing, and lack of open source sense-making tools continue “The Big Disconnect.”
