Category: Information Operations (IO)

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Yoda: CIOs Need to Be Digital Leaders?

IO Impotency
Got Crowd? BE the Force!
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

Big leap!

CIOs Need to Become Digital Leaders

Most CIOs know they need to become digital leaders, but don’t feel that they are there yet, according to Gartner’s study of 2,300 CIOs. Gartner refers to this shift toward digitalization as the “third era” of enterprise IT.

Phi Beta Iota: Worth a complete read. One quarter of “IT” budget outside of CIO control (probably more since they are not counting manufacturing processes that should be migrating to open source everything engineering). Open source is all the rage but not one — anywhere — has conceptualized the mix of open geo, open data, and open  tools that are needed to unleash the full potential of all of us.

See Also:

Analytics     .   Big Data    .   OSE Spanish   .   Open Source     .   True Cost

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Stephen E. Arnold: Court Rules for Google on Corrupt Search — Precision, Recall, Relevance are “Irrelevant” — Paid Outcomes are “Legal”

Corruption, Idiocy, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Google Free and Clear to Rank Search Results Any Way It Wants

Well, bad news for those who want to force Google to modify the order in which search results appear. If I understand “Court Rules Google Can Arrange Search Results Any Way It Wants,” relevance is what Google wants. Period.

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Berto Jongman: #Global_Witness & #OKFN Exposing Corruption in Data via #OpenData

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Data
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Global Witness and Open Knowledge – Working together to investigate and campaign against corruption related to the extractives industries

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

See Also:

Robert Steele: Kudos to Intel – #ConflictFree Toward #TrueCost?

Berto Jongman: #ConflictFree $201 Billion in Consumer Economics Full of Conflict Minerals [and Oblivious of #TrueCost]

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Tom Atlee: Child’s Vow of Silence Until World Leaders Act on Climate Change

03 Environmental Degradation, IO Deeds of Peace
Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee

A remarkable 11 year old's vow of silence

I have been deeply moved by the action of an 11 year old – Itzcuauhtli (Eat-Squat-Lee) Roske-Martinez who stopped talking October 27, 2014 “until world leaders take action on Climate Change”. Itzcuauhtli makes it clear that he thinks all of us are at least as important as world leaders for climate action – if not more so – than officially recognized world leaders. I will be joining him and thousands of others being silent on December 10 for the same purpose.

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Berto Jongman: War on Syria – War on China — What Obama’s Child Diplomats and Child Analysts Don’t Understand…

02 China, 02 Diplomacy, 03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

By removing Assad, Obama may be declaring war on China

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President Obama continues to operate with large blind spots when it comes to Chinese interests, risking strategic misjudgment according to Professor Zhen Wang of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Seton Hall University. Wang argues this is not surprising given the Obama administration’s China policy suffers from a rather incompetent China team, “including senior positions in the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon, [that] are currently being held by ‘young people’ who don’t have long-term experience in dealing with China policy…many of whom are not even China experts.”

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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon (and CIA) Breaking Oracle — the Surveillance State Goes Open Source

Data, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Amazon and Oracle: The Love Affair Ends

I recall turning in a report about Amazon’s use of Oracle as its core database. The client, a bank type operation, was delighted that zippy Amazon had the common sense to use a name brand database. For the bank types, recognizable names used to be indicators of wise technological decisions.

I read “Amazon: DROP DATABASE Oracle; INSERT Our New Fast Cheap MySQL Clone.” Assume the write up is spot on, Amazon and Oracle have fallen out of love or at least beefy payments from Amazon for the sort of old Oracle data management system. This comment becomes quite interesting to me:

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