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Stephen E. Arnold: Only 58% of US-UK Companies and Information Governance Policies

IO Impotency, IO Privacy
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Recommind Survey Shows Stats Related to Information Governance

January 16, 2014

The article titled Bridging the Global Information Governance Gap on IDM offers more governance advice from the findings of Recommind’s survey of US and UK companies. The survey posed questions related to information governance (IG), which is “a cross-departmental approach to optimising [sic] the value of information simultaneously associated risks and costs.” We had thought Recommind was a variant of the Autonomy type of system, we are learning new things every day. Their survey revealed that only 58% of companies in the US have an IG policy. The article quotes the global head of information governance at Recommind, Dean Gonsowski:

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Rob Dover: The NSA, Snowden and the Media

Ethics, Government, IO Impotency, Media, Military
Rob Dover
Rob Dover

The NSA, Snowden and the Media

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e-International Relations on January 15, 2014

As Michael Goodman and I tried to whimsically note in the sub-title of our edited collection on intelligence and the media – media needs intelligence and intelligence needs the media. The symbiosis of this relationship can be partly found in common expertise and practices (investigative zeal and tradecraft around weeding out hidden empirical detail), but also in the political or normative function of intelligence agencies, namely to constrain and repel certain forms of political discourse and activity deemed to be abhorrent to the majority, but more particularly which is abhorrent to the established political elites. So, at a very basic level media outlets learn much from the activities of intelligence agencies and the business they engage in. Similarly the agencies have both used mainstream media to shape debates (the Cold War and the War on Terror were notable examples), and to position adversaries in a particular way (and this might apply to every conflict since the printing press was invented). But what I want to rehearse here are the particular ways in which mainstream and parallel media sources – with a particular emphasis on the UK – have coalesced and acted within the NSA/Snowden furore, and the lessons we can learn from this.

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2014 Intelligence Reform (All Others)

Ethics, Government, IO Impotency, IO Secrets, IO Sense-Making

EIN logoSHORT URL:

http://tinyurl.com/2014-Intel-Reform

Under Construction – Send Nominations to robert.david.steele.vivas@gmail.com

Updated 23 Jan 2014 14:58 E

Phi Beta Iota: The current literature on intelligence reform is underdeveloped and under-specified.  An example of this under- or mis-specification can be seen in the treatment of 9/11. The dominant position that 9/11 was an intelligence failure is correct in principle. It was, however, a failure of counterintelligence not of warning. Ample warnings had been provided, including from 9 different nations warning the White House and the CIA in advance. George Tenet had a clear role in positioning the intelligence community away from these warnings, including ABLE DANGER. Keith Alexander seems to have shared this misplaced analytical view, along with the Acting Director of the FBI who was not able to lever influence when  the actual Director resigned. 9/11 was – in effect – enabled by Dick Cheney, who ordered a national counter-terrorism exercise for “the day,” months in advance, despite the numerous and clear warnings  — not to stop 9/11, but to allow it, embrace it, enhance it, and leverage it. Today's US Intelligence Community is dedicated to moving money — nothing more — and of course this is all Congress wants, with its eye on the standard 5% kick-back to sponsoring Members.  It is not in any way, shape, or form committed to producing ethical evidence-based decision support applicable to national strategy, national policy, national acquisition, or national operations. Intelligence with integrity is not to be found in the US Government (good people, bad system — this is a meta-challenge). Most intelligence scholars are currently serving to bolster this system rather than to stand as critical friends to challenge and help in the reform of it.

Below the line is an integrated list from the past several years. This is everybody else.  For an alternative perspective on intelligence reform, see 2014 Robert Steele on Intelligence Reform.

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Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 2.0

Cultural Intelligence, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

BOOK: The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes

Also: Radio Interview with Author

BUDGET: Congress Wants More Insight into Cyber, SOF Budgets

CYBER: Cyberwar Increasingly Defined By Espionage and Regional Conflicts, Argues FireEye

CYBER: DDoS New Technique, Warns US-CERT

CYBER: Google Spyware SMS Tracker

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Jean Lievens: Peter Gruber on Internet Immersion – Trillions of Feed-Back Loops

Advanced Cyber/IO
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

From Peter Gruber:

Someone walked into my UCLA class a year ago and three hours later I realized that the business of media and the business of business itself was about to be turned inside out.

Internet of Things: From Stadium Pouring Rights to Washing Machine Pouring Rights, a Revolution is Coming

EXTRACT:

Mickey walks in and says that first and foremost a new mountain is on the horizon of not billions but trillions of connected devices. He plays a short film (Link: https://vimeo.com/7395079 ) and quizzes us about how big trillions even is–for those that aren’t math majors, a trillion seconds is over 30,000 years. He makes the point that this isn’t far off in the distant future but happening within the next five years. “For instance,” he says. “We just reached over four to six billion cell phones, effectively super computers in our pockets, but as early as 2010 the world had manufactured over ten billion microprocessors a year and now makes more transistors than grains of rice, cheaper.” He continues, ‘but a trillion smart devices isn’t even the biggest challenge, it’s that connectivity will act like a seed in that super saturated solution and suddenly we won’t see information any longer as being “in” our computers, but instead the sock will turn inside out and we’ll be living “in” the information.’

. . . . . .

A student asks, “So are your clothes all going to gang up and lobby for a change in detergent when they fade too fast, or don’t fade fast enough?” Yes. This is the first time in history where we’ll have a true feedback loop of not just the social media anecdotes that drive today’s recommendation engines, but facts.

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Phi Beta Iota: Missing from their concept — but very easy to integrate into their vision — is the foundation concept of true cost economics.

See Also:

True Cost Economics @ Phi Beta Iota

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Robin Good: Filter Tool -Rather

IO Tools

 

Robin Good
Robin Good

Filter Out Anything You Don't Want To See Again with Rather

Rather is a browser extension which allows you to easily filter out (mute) or replace any keyword appearing in your information streams. Filter out cats, funny pics, Christmas and other popular events as well as any content coming from Instagram, Vine, Buzzfeed and other platforms. Rather works across Facebook, Twitter and with any RSS feed you submit to it. You can also see what other 200,000+ users are blocking in real-time. In an age of information overbaundance this is a sweet handy tool to easily filter out info you don't want to see from your main incoming news streams. Try it out now: http://getrather.com/ FAQ: http://getrather.com/faqs.php

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