Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Three Audio/Video Segments on Intelligent Collaboration, Intelligence Of Crowds, and Collaborative Problem-Solving

Audio, Collective Intelligence, Collective Intelligence

CISCO: Intelligent Collaboration: A Discussion with Professor Thomas Malone
Learn how new collaborative technologies help redefine teamwork, leadership, and the concept of collective intelligence. Start collaborating more intelligently. (30:16 min)

NPR: The Intelligence Of Crowds In ‘The Perfect Swarm' Talk of the Nation (Sept 10)
In his book The Perfect Swarm, Len Fisher talks about swarm intelligence — where the collective ideas of a group add up to better solutions than any individual could have dreamed up, including an example of how UPS reorganized its driving routes using the logic of an ant colony.

NPR: Collaboration Beats Smarts In Group Problem Solving by Joe Palca (Sept 30)
Everywhere you look, from business to science to government, teams of people are set to work solving problems. You might think the trick to getting the smartest team would be to get the smartest people together, but a new study says that might not always be right.

Thanks to those behind the inSTEDD Twitter feed

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#1 Amazon Reviewer for Non-Fiction Says Hello

About the Idea, Blog Wisdom

Robert David SteeleRobert David Steele

Recovering spy, serial pioneer for open and public intelligence

Posted: October 2, 2010 09:54 AM

#1 Amazon Reviewer for Non-Fiction Says Hello

Click on Title to Read at Huffington Post and/or Comment.

I am going to be a most faithful contributor to the new vertical in Education. I agree with the propositions of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, respectively:

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Unfortunately, we have become a nation of cheats and liars, with our two-party tyranny leading the way. Thankfully, “Open Everything” is here to stay, and Howard Zinn (RIP) had it right when he called the public a power no government can repress.

By way of introduction to my many reviews that provide the context for my deliberative focus on education, below are two booklists created in support of my most recent book proposing the creation, immediately, of a World Brain and Global Game. The first is a negative list, all the books that document all the negatives that we have allowed to proliferate over the past fifty years. The second is a positive list, and I must salute Tom Atlee, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and many others who have educated me this past decade on wisdom among us all.

Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Positive)

Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Negative)

Now with that as an introduction, here are my two “opening shots” in what is sure to be one of the most influential and useful educational sites on the Internet.

Child-Driven Education (Sugata Mitra at TED)

The World Is Open-How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education (Review)

If you want to see all of my reviews to date of education books, below are the two links.

Education (General)

Education (Universities)

All reviews lead back to the Amazon Page, and at the bottom, to my often-buried review should you wish to vote or comment — I respond to all comments at Amazon on a daily basis, and of course here at The Huffington Post as well.

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Journal: US Strategy in Afghanistan Out of Balance

09 Terrorism, 10 Security, Military, Strategy
Dr. Steve Metz
America's Flawed Afghanistan Strategy
  • Added August 09, 2010  Op-Ed 2 Pages

The concluding paragraph:

Ultimately, then, the basic rationale of American strategy in Afghanistan is questionable. Certainly America cannot ignore that country as it did before September 11, 2001, and should continue supporting the national government and other Afghans opposed to the Taliban. But in strategy, balance is the key—the expected security benefits of any action must justify the costs and risks. Today, America's Afghanistan strategy, with its flawed assumptions, is badly out of balance.

Tip of the Hat to Dale Mark Benedict at Facebook.

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Journal: True Cost of US Government Ineptitude

03 Economy, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption
John R. Talbott

John R. Talbott

Bestselling author whose books predicted the economic crisis

Posted: October 1, 2010 12:28 PM

TARP Uncovered — the Real Cost of the Government Bailout

The New York Times reports this morning (“TARP Bailout to Cost Less Than Once Anticipated“) that the true cost of TARP will be less than $50 billion. I find this type of reporting to be incredibly misleading and deceitful. Focusing solely on TARP and ignoring the other more costly portions of the government bailout of our biggest banks and corporations ignores the true cost of the government's (both the Bush and Obama administrations, the Fed and Congress) inept response to this crisis. One of the reasons that TARP did not cost more was because of the government's other more costly bailout policies, and to ignore them is to dramatically understate the true cost of the bailout.

By claiming a narrow TARP success, the Times attempts to invalidate citizen anger at the bailout by making it appear that the electorate is somehow misinformed about its costs or is just plain stupid. Nothing could be further from the truth. Claiming that TARP was successful, but ignoring the much larger and more relevant costs of other areas of the government bailout is like claiming the voyage of the Titanic was successful because many of the lifeboats were recovered. It is important to remember that the ship sunk.

Read his entire article with detail list that adds up to:

  • Total estimated cost of government bailout = $14.85 trillion.

John R. Talbott is the bestselling author of eight books on economics and politics that have accurately detailed and predicted the causes and devastating effects of this entire financial crisis including, in 2003, “The Coming Crash in the Housing Market”, in January 2006, “Sell Now! The End of the Housing Bubble” and in 2008, “Contagion: The Financial Epidemic that is Sweeping the Global Economy”.

Phi Beta Iota: This author impresses us.  This is precisely the kind of public intelligence in the public interest that must be structured so as to be available to all citizens in time to keep government honest as well as effective.

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Search: buckminster fuller map

Advanced Cyber/IO, Earth Intelligence, Geospatial, Geospatial, info-graphics/data-visualization, IO Mapping, Policies-Harmonization, Strategy-Holistic Coherence

Phi Beta Iota: Although the search produces Graphics Directory A-Z as of 28 September 2010 and within that one can find Graphic: Robert Steele Adopts Buckminster Fuller that is too far from our preferred outcome.  Here is the human in the loop answer: it's called the Dymaxion map.

Here are a whole bunch of images.

Within those, the two below are the most interesting.  The second was used in a discussion between Buckminster Fuller and the Russian leadership, to show how a global electrical grid could be achieved that would eradicate the current 50% loss from source to end-user.

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Journal: Leveraging Local Entrepreneurs

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Methods & Process, Non-Governmental
Hisham Wyne

Hisham Wyne

Writer, columnist and armchair sociologist

Posted: October 1, 2010 12:35 PM

Social Entrepreneurs and Change in Dubai

An event revolving around the UN Millennium Goals, TEDx Change Dubai, recently gathered three hundred participants at the creek side Dubai Chamber of Commerce. Melinda Gates, wife of billionaire philanthropist and once Microsoft overlord Bill Gates, asked a pertinent question while streaming live from New York.

How is it that Coke can sell 1.5 billion servings daily and dispense to far flung areas that NGOs, Quangos and aid agencies have difficulty reaching with aid or vaccines? It's simple. Coke's distribution takes advantage of local entrepreneurs. NGOs often don't. Entrepreneurs are by nature both disruptive and generative. They distress the fabric of large business through hyper-local knowledge. They nimbly pounce on small market opportunities, or even build them from scratch. They catalyze economic spurts and the birth of cultures and sub-cultures as microcosms of activity appear around them. Their knowledge and drive can often be a powerful catalyst for social improvement.

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