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Reference: VISION 2015: A Globally Networked and Integrated Intelligence Enterprise [Suddenly Popular]

Director of National Intelligence et al (IC)
Great Hat, No Cattle
Great Hat, No Cattle

This is a brilliantly organized report with many stellar insights, all of which are undermined by the complete inability of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to accept the fact that 80%–at least– of what we need to know is not secret, not in English, and not owned or controlled by the U.S. Government.

Phi Beta Iota Editorial Comment (DOI: 11 August 2009)

This is perhaps the finest document in recent history to emerge from the U.S. Intelligence Community (US IC) for public study.  It ranks with Computer Aided Tools for the Analysis of Science & Technology (CATALYST) in its gifted–uteerly gifted–high-level description of the challenges and opportunities.  Everything in this document is both needed and achievable.

HOWEVER:

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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Derek Lomas

Alpha I-L, Collective Intelligence
Derek Lomas
Derek Lomas
Derek Lomas is a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interactions Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is researching the underpinnings of fun and learning within commercial video games and helping to develop new design processes for building effective computer-aided learning games.? Lomas is a co-founder of the Playpower Foundation, which recently received support from the MacArthur Foundation to further its goals of building affordable, effective and fun learning games to improve education around the world.? Lomas received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts from UC San Diego and his BA in Cognitive Science from Yale University.
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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Jason “JZ” Liszkiewicz

Alpha I-L, Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Jason "JZ" Liszkiewicz
Jason “JZ” Liszkiewicz

Jason Liszkiewicz (Re-Configure.org) was based in NYC but has moved to China. He's co-founder and Executive Director of the Earth Intelligence Network, and resource-contributor to OSS.Net. In 2006 he was labeled as a “one man think tank” by J-Lab, Maryland’s Institute for Interactive Journalism.

Producing Communities of Communication and Foreknowledge

The Book
The Book
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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Hassan Masum

Alpha M-P, Collective Intelligence
Hassan Masum
Hassan Masum

After postdoctoral research and stints with government, engineering firms, and the National Research Council of Canada, Hassan Masum is now Senior Research Co-ordinator with the McLaughlin-Rotman Center for Global Health in Toronto and a contributor to WorldChanging.com. www.hmasum.com.

The Wealth of Networks: Highlights Remixed

Interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon

Scaling up open problem solving

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Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Joseph Markowitz

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Joseph Markowitz
Joseph Markowitz

PLATINUM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Dr. Joseph Markowitz

Dr. Joseph Markowitz is without question the most qualified Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) pioneer in the ranks of those presently in or retired from U.S. government service.  As the only real chief of the Community Open Source Program Office (COSPO) he tried valiently to nurture a program being systematically undermined by both the leadership and the traditional broadcast monitoring service.  When he moved on to advise the Defense Science Board, he served America well by helping them fully integrate the need for both defense open source information collection and exploitation, and defense information sharing with non-governmental organizations.  His persistent but diplomatic efforts merit our greatest regard.

2006 Markowitz (US) Open Source Information and US Transitions to and from Hostilities (Defense Science Board Report, December 2004), in Relation to Information-Sharing with non-DoD and Froeign Parties

2003 Markowitz (US) Open Source in Support to All-Source Intelligence

1999 Allen (US) Requirements, Collection, and Current Awareness: The Human Dimension (The Role of Open Sources as the Foundation for Successful All-Source Collection Strategies) (Ghost-Written by Markowitz)