Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: James Vasile

Alpha V-Z, Autonomous Internet, Collective Intelligence, Cyber-Intelligence
James Vasile

James Vasile, Counsel to the Software Freedom Law Foundation,  holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from Columbia Law School, where he was a member of the law review and a Stone Scholar. He also has a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from Fordham University. He spent several years in the litigation department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he worked on a range of cases and dealt with a variety of new media issues. Vasile has also contributed code and documentation to numerous FOSS software projects. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

He is a principal member of the team that conceived the Freedom Box (first briefed to Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) in 2010) and is now forming under the leadership of Eben Moglen, to create the software that will displace CISCO and other “closed box” routers while also being much more than a router–it will be the foundation of the Freedom Stack.

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Douglas+Johnson+faith+religion
Web Stack

Personal Blog: Hacker Visions–At the Intersection of Freedom, Technology, & Community

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Simultaneous Policy–A Collaborative Concept

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Government

to solve them could effectively make its country economically uncompetitive, leading to inflation, unemployment, or even economic collapse.

Simpol aims to break the vicious circle governments find themselves in by encouraging people around the world to oblige their politicians and governments to cooperate globally in implementing appropriate policies simultaneously for the good of all.

Only by implementing policies simultaneously can our problems be resolved in a way that no nation, corporation, or citizen loses out. If all nations act together, everybody wins.

WORTH A LOOK

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The Arrogance Divide & The Common Good

Cultural Intelligence
John Steiner

Below is an article from the Boston Globe that inspired interesting comments.  Two of them are offered below the line for consideration.

The arrogance divide

Why can’t liberals capture the populist moment?

By Neal Gabler Boston Globe, February 22, 2011

A RECENT essay in Boston Review by historian William Hogeland pondered a perplexing political question: Why haven’t populists and liberals been able to make common cause? They seem like natural allies. They both rail against economic inequality. They both are skeptical of America’s financial masters of the universe. They both believe that government has an obligation to help the country’s working men and women. They are both angry about the direction the country has been taking.  Read more…

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From Middle East, Dignity Movement Finds Its Feet

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
John Steiner
This article is adapted from a talk that Bob Fuller recently gave at a TEDx event in Berkeley, appearing in both Huffington Post and Psychology Today.   Both versions are linked here.

Robert Fuller Author, “Somebodies and Nobodies” and “All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity”
Huffington Post, March 6, 2011 08:02 PM The Dignity Movement Finds Its Feet
Psychology Today, March 6, 2011 The Dignity Movement Finds Its Feet

Dignity is not negotiable.
– Vartan Gregorian

Dignity on the March

Across North Africa and the Middle East to South and East Asia, the hunger for dignity is driving unrest and heralding social transformation. Everywhere, people are refusing to be taken for nobodies; they're demanding to be treated like somebodies.

A new dream is taking hold: people are sensing the possibility of building societies in which dignity is universal and secure. Life is hard, yes, and we remain vulnerable to natural catastrophes, but couldn't we disallow the indignities to which we subject one another?

Click here for the Psychology Today version….

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Contributing Editor John Steiner

Authors & Editors

John Steiner

John Steiner, Harvard class of ’65, is a networker, organizer, and philanthropist. He brings together people, projects, ideas and money around a common cause – serving “the pattern that connects.” He co-founded the National Commons, a predecessor to the United States Consensus Council, to bring multi-stakeholder, collaborative problem solving tools to the national level. He was a founding board member of Search for Common Ground; a founding member and early leader of the Threshold Foundation; and a founding member of the Social Venture Network. He is a former chairman of the board of CDR Associates (Center for Dispute Resolution). Currently he is the acting chairman of the board of the transpartisan initiative, Reuniting America. He works closely with Robert Fuller and the DIGNITY movement. He is also working with other philanthropists and social entrepreneurs to raise large sums of money for the peace and security field. John lives with his wife Margo King in Boulder, Colorado, where they serve as trustees of the Steiner King Foundation, which is active in a variety of creative philanthropic endeavors.

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Introducing Open Foresight

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice

Venessa Miemis

What is Open Foresight?

We recently introduced the concept of ‘Open Foresight’ as a process we’re developing to analyze complex issues in an open and collaborative way, and to raise the bar on public discourse and forward-focused critical thinking. It’s a work in progress and constantly evolving, but here are some of the basic principles we’ve developed so far.

1) What is Open Foresight?

In simple terms, open foresight is a process for building visions of the future together.

2) The Big Picture Context  ..  3) Why Open Foresight?  ..  4) Pilot Project: The Future of Facebook  ..  5) The Tipping Point  ..  Fueled By Crowdfunding & Corporate Patronage

For more information visit the original post at emergent by design.

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Afghanistan: Too Many Contractors, No Accountability

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, Commerce, Corruption, IO Sense-Making, Military, Peace Intelligence

SECRECY NEWS EXTRACT:

DOD CONTRACTORS IN AFGHANISTAN AT A RECORD HIGH

The number of private security contractors employed by the Department of Defense in Afghanistan has reached a new record high, according to DoD statistics in a recently updated report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service.

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