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Mobile Money II

Columbia Institute for Tele-Information

Columbia Business School

Uris Hall TBD

In April 2010 CITI held its first conference on “Mobile Money”, focusing on the macroeconomic aspects. Since then, developments have accelerated. Around the world, the rapid spread of mobile phones is being followed by their use as a tool for financial transactions. The cell phone serves as a bank account, debit card, and money creator. Developing countries lack effective financial infrastructure. The positive economic impact of the mobile telecommunications infrastructure has been demonstrated, as has been the ability of microfinance to stimulate economic activity. Now a hybrid of the technologies has begun to emerge, enabling a mobile financial system. A notable example is Kenya where the M-PESA system (‘m-money’ in Swahili) has transferred in its short history over $5.4 billion by 12 million customers. This conference addresses some of the following issues:

What are the economics of mobile money?
What policy issues does it raise?
Is m-money a threat to the traditional banking system?
How might it be regulated?
Security issues
Consumer protection perspectives
Investor perspectives
Indicators for demand
M-money and m-health
What are consumer and privacy protection issues?
Who will control the system—banks or telecom operators?
What are the emerging trends?

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2010/10/20

Journal: Flag Officers & Members Fronting for China

02 China, 03 Economy, 10 Security, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Government, Military, Mobile

From Intelligence Online:

Suspected by Congress of being linked to the Chinese army, Huawei is working in the U.S. in partnership with Amerilink, which is headed by a former U.S. Navy admiral.

Trusted third party – In a few weeks’ time the U.S. telecoms operator Sprint Nextel is due to award the $2 billion 7-year contract for the development of its 3G network in the United States. To strengthen its chances of winning the lucrative deal, China’s Huawei Technologies, which is regularly suspected of having links to the Chinese People’s Liberation
Army (IOL 619 ), has placed a joint bid with Amerilink, a small U.S. company founded in 2009. The company employs fewer than 20 engineers and is headed by William Owens, a former vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Amerilink acts as the interface between Huawei and potential U.S. clients. If Huawei were to win the Sprint contract, Amerilink would handle the integration of Chinese equipment in the U.S. operator’s network.

Powerful support – U.S. parliamentarians have been Huawei’s most vociferous opponents: they prevented the Chinese group from buying the U.S. telephony company 3Com in 2008. To defend its partner in Congress, Amerilink recently added two Democrat personalities to its board of directors, the former World Bank president James Wolfenson and Richard Gephardt, president of the House of Representatives ’ Democratic group from 1989 to 2003.

LINK:
http://www.intelligenceonline.com

2010/10/20

Reference: Reader-to-Leader Framework–Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation

Collective Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), IO Mapping, IO Multinational, Methods & Process, Mobile, Open Government, Standards, Strategy, Tools

The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation

Jennifer Preece, University of Maryland¹
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland²

Abstract

Billions of people participate in online social activities. Most users participate as readers of discussion boards, searchers of blog posts, or viewers of photos. A fraction of users become contributors of user-generated content by writing consumer product reviews, uploading travel photos, or expressing political opinions. Some users move beyond such individual efforts to become collaborators, forming tightly connected groups with lively discussions whose outcome might be a Wikipedia article or a carefully edited YouTube video. A small fraction of users becomes leaders, who participate in governance by setting and upholding policies, repairing vandalized materials, or mentoring novices. We analyze these activities and offer the Reader-to-Leader Framework with the goal of helping researchers, designers, and managers understand what motivates technology-mediated social participation. This will enable them to improve interface design and social support for their companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. These improvements could reduce the number of failed projects, while accelerating the application of social media for national priorities such as healthcare, energy sustainability, emergency response, economic development, education, and more.

Recommended Citation

Preece, Jennifer and Shneiderman, Ben (2009) “The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation,” AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (1) 1, pp. 13-32
Available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol1/iss1/5

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Reference: Science 2.0 by Ben Shneiderman

Articles & Chapters, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, info-graphics/data-visualization, IO Mapping, IO Multinational, Mobile, Open Government, Strategy, Tools

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Read Source Article, Science 2.0 (2008-07-03)

Phi Beta Iota: Eugene Garfield gave us citation analysis via the Institute for Scientific Information, and Dick Klavans and company have given us the (fragmented) web of knowledge. Top commercial intelligence practitioners have long known that published experts can lead to unpublished experts without which ground truth cannot be determined. If citations are the “things” that can be measured, “relationships” or “transactions” are the intangibles between the spaces, the Ying of the Yang. This article is important in part because it coincides with MajGen Robert Scales, USA (Ret) view that WWI was about chemistry, WWII was about physics, WWIII was about information, and WWIV is about human factors.

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2010/10/20

Graphic (12): Gun Control Perspectives

10 Security, 11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, History, Mobile, Open Government, Peace Intelligence, Standards, Strategy, Tools

Marcus-Aurelius-150x150 — Marcus Aurelius Recommends

Following is self explanatory. About all I can add is:

– “The West wasn't won with a registered gun.”
– As Charlton Heston said, “… from my cold, dead hand …”
– “Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.”
– “Don't dry fire in a gunfight.”
– “I am the NRA — and I vote!”

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2010/10/16

“TapIt” Water Bottle Refilling Network in NYC

12 Water, Maps, Mobile

TapIt water bottle refilling network was founded in 2008 to give New Yorkers free access to clean sustainable water on the go. Café owners sign up as ‘partners’ to provide tap water to those who carry a reusable bottle. Partner locations are easy to find using our search and mapping features (PC or Smartphone) or by downloading ‘TapIt Water’ from the iPhone App store. For those with limited access to technology, printable city maps can be downloaded and stickers can be found on café windows.

Comment: This has been added to this 45 page table of water resource hyper-links with a description for each link.

2010/10/15

Journal: What to do with all this data?

Analysis, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), Methods & Process, Mobile, Real Time

October 15, 2010
Posted in Business strategy, News, indexing, metadata

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October 15, 2010 – Large institutions have massive amounts of data in this modern age, the question is what to do with all of it. Extracting the right information can help avoid waste, delays, systems failures, even terrorist threats. A perfect example is Toyota’s customer support and repair data. If business intelligence had been applied and management had been looking, they would have noticed that something was going terribly wrong.

NewsBreak brought this to our attention in their article, “Search and Business Intelligence: The Humble Inverted Index Wins Again.” Business intelligence means mining through all that digital data—in legacy systems, databases, and even spreadsheets—and reporting what’s going on. Institutions with all that data know its value. When implemented well, business intelligence can be a huge success to all involved.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.

Phi Beta Iota: The two graphics below, one from the 1990's the other very recent, sum up all that governments and businesses simply do not get, do not practice, and do not leverage. Dashboards, like Smart Phones, are fairly stupid. Existing “data mining” systems do not adapt, scale, or make sense in relation to externalities. It takes humans to do that, and not geek IT humans but rather all-source holistic analytics humans. We have a ways to go.

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