Category: Information Operations (IO)

In the aftermath of my two earlier posts, Robert Steele: Reflections on the Next Data Revolution and 2014 Robert Steele: Appraisal of Analytic Foundations – Email Provided, Feedback Solicited – UPDATED — and my UN Background Paper, Beyond Data Monitoring – Achieving the Sustainability Development Goals Through Intelligence (Decision-Support) Integrating Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything, I have been delighted to find that conversations creating choices are advancing on multiple fronts, and there is a convergence occurring that may crest in Brazil in July 2015 at their Free Software event.

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NETmundial Initiative

A multistakeholder Initiative to energize bottom-up, collaborative solutions in a distributed Internet governance ecosystem.

This initiative was started by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF), and so far it has attracted a lot of skepticism and critics from civil society, business and governments. Learn more from Carolina Rossini.

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Cosmic, this is.

Lantern: One Device, Free Data From Space Forever

Global access to the web’s best content on your mobile device. Anonymous. Uncensored. Free. Outernet

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The Future of News: Looking East

I read “Hacking Media: Al Jazeera Hackathon Imagines the Future of News.” The write up is interesting because it suggests that fresh thinking about “real” journalism does not occur in Midtown Manhattan.

The other main point I noted was:

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Lawrence Mark “Larry” Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. From an early age he has been interested in philosophy. Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Reed College in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000. Most of his philosophical work has focused on epistemology, the theory of knowledge.

Sanger left Wikipedia in 2002, and has since been critical of the project. He states that, despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility due to, among other things, a lack of respect for expertise.

How we can organize the news (short version)

How we can organize the news (long version)

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