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The Single Best Examination of Secrecy Costs, October 16, 2008

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I testified to this Commission, both publicly and also in a private session in the office of Daniel Patrick Moynihan (RIP).

This is the single best non-partisan overview of the costs of unnessary secrecy, as well as the imperatives of providing proper definition and protection of necessary secrets.

I note with appreciation that my testimony led him to include the words “open source” in his cover letter of transmittal to the White House.

For a sense of the logical implementation of the findings of this Commission, see THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest.

For a sense of how we must radically alter the “closed circle” of national intelligence to embrace the entire Nation and indeed the Whole Earth, see Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace.

2008/10/082011/02/13

Who’s Who in Earth Intelligence: Medard Gabel

Alpha E-H, Earth Intelligence

Medard Gabel is a noted author and speaker who co-founded World Game Institute with Buckminster Fuller. Medard also founded BigPictureSmallWorld, Inc.. In conjunction with Global Education Motivators, Medard created the Design Science lab which is a workshop for developing strategies to address the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. As #2 to Buckminster Fuller for many years, he helped create the analog World Game. More recently, as a founding member of the Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3, he created the preliminary staffing and funding plan for creating the digital EarthGame(TM).

His influence was central to the chapter, “World Brain as EarthGame,” in COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (EIN, 2008).

About: EarthGame and World Brain

Worth a Look: Medard Gabel, EarthGame and More

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Wikipedia Bio with Many Links

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2008/09/302010/12/29

Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Ben Gilad

Alpha E-H, Commercial Intelligence

Dr. Ben Gilad, considered a leading developer of competitive intelligence (CI) theory and practice in the US, is a former Associate Professor of Strategy at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Management. Gilad’s first CI books, The Business Intelligence System (1988, AMACOM, co-authored) and Business Blindspots (1994, US: Probus/Irwin; 1998, UK: Infonortics), paved the way for the CI evolution in US corporations, many of which emulated the basic principles of Gilad’s CI process model. He is the co-editor of the definitive analysis book, The Art and Science of Business Intelligence Analysis (1996, JAI Press), reprinted and updated with Jan Herring in 2008.

In 2004 Gilad published his breakthrough book, Early Warning (AMACOM, 2004), which defines for the first time a new role and scope for CI practitioners based on his innovative work with two strategic early warning systems in two leading global corporations. For this new risk management perspective of CI, CI Magazine labeled him “our CI guru”. The Society of Competitive Professionals honored him with its highest Meritorious award in 1996.

2008/09/292009/09/06

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Jock Gill

Alpha E-H, Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Mr. Gill is President and Founder of Penfield Gill, Incorporated, a consulting firm specializing in New Media communications, marketing, and strategic planning. Currently, Mr. Gill is a cofounder of the not-for-profit Grass Energy Collaborative and the for-profit Biomass Commodities Corporation. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Gill was Director of Special Projects in the Office of Media Affairs at The White House, where he was a key member of the communications innovations team which introduced electronic publishing, public access email to the President, and, in October 1994, the first White House web site—Welcome to the White House. Mr. Gill is a speaker on the history and future of information technology and new media. He has also been a senior product manager at Lotus Development Corporation, and was the founding president of Computer Access Corporation. http://www.jockgill.com.

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2008/09/292009/09/06

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Thomas Homer-Dixon

Alpha E-H, Collective Intelligence

Photo Credit: Bryn Gladdi

Interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon by Hassan Masum

The Internet and the revitalization of democracy–the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin in Conversation with Thomas Homer-Dixon

Thomas Homer-Dixon holds the Centre for International Governance Innovation Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada, and is a Professor in the Centre for Environment and Business in the Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo.

His books include Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Climate Change and Oil Depletion Will Define the Future, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (Knopf, Island Press, 2006), which won the 2006 National Business Book Award, The Ingenuity Gap (Knopf, 2000), which won the 2001 Governor General's Non-fiction Award, and Environment, Scarcity, and Violence (Princeton University Press, 1999), which won the Caldwell Prize of the American Political Science Association.

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2008/09/282010/12/29

Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Jan Herring

Alpha E-H, Commercial Intelligence

Jan Herring is President of Herring & Associates LLC, a management consultancy, specializing in intelligence matters, and a fouinding principal at the Academy of Competitive Intelligence, the gold standard for commercial intelligence training at all levels, entry, mid-career, and capstone.

He is unique in the world of commercial intelligence for having been the first modern pioneer and champion in the U.S. Intelligence Community for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). As the very first person ever to hold the office of National Intelligence Officer for Science & Technology (NIO S&T), he attempted in the early 1980's to repair the severe deficiency in access to open sources in all languages. His work laid the foundation for work by others that will eventually result in a national Open Source Agency fully independent of but support of the secret world.

2008/09/262009/09/06

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Jerome Glenn

Alpha E-H, Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Jerome C. Glenn is co-founder and Director of the Millennium Project. He is known for inventing of the Futures wheel technique and is cited as an expert on Future studies methodology by RAND Corporation^.As Director of the Millennium Project, Glenn is the primary author on their annual State of the Future reports. Glenn received a BA in Philosophy at The American University and holds an MA in Teaching Social Science focused on Futuristic Curriculum Development from the Antioch University New England. He was a doctoral candidate in futures research at the University of Massachusetts, and has two honorary doctors degrees and honorary professorship. [More detailed biography below the fold.]

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Review: Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy