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2011/07/092011/07/09

Patrick Meier: Mobile Technology & Hybrid Governance

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Key Players, Methods & Process, Mobile, Policies, Real Time, Serious Games, Threats

Mobile Technologies for Conflict Management: Online Dispute Resolution, Governance, Participation is the title of a new book edited by Marta Poblet. I recently met Marta in Vienna, Austria during the UN Expert Meeting on Croudsource Mapping organized by UN SPIDER. I'm excited that her book has just launched. The chapters are is divided into 3 sections: Disruptive Applications of Mobile Technologies; Towards a Mobile ODR; and Mobile Technologies: New Challenges for Governance, Privacy and Security.

The book includes chapters by several colleagues of mine like Mike Best on “Mobile Phones in Conflict Stressed Environments”, Ken Banks on “Appropriate Mobile Technologies,” Oscar Salazar and Jorge Soto on “How to Crowdsource Election Monitoring in 30 Days,” Jacok Korenblum and Bieta Andemariam on “How Souktel Uses SMS Technology to Empower and Aid in Conflict-Affected Communities,” and Emily Jacobi on “Burma: A Modern Anomaly.”

My colleagues Jessica Heinzelman, Rachel Brown and myself also contributed one of the chapters, “Mobile Technology, Crowdsourcing and Peace Mapping: New Theory and Applications for Conflict Management.”

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2011/07/092011/10/22

Dolphin: Electoral Rage in Malaysia, Open Insurgency?

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government

From a Human Intelligence perspective, below is a very strong signal that the Arab Spring and its “Days of Rage” are spreading; even well-managed countries such as Malaysia (and one speculates, badly-managed ones like the USA) appear to be in line for Electoral Reform protests and perhaps Open Source Insurgency.

Malaysia police fire tear gas, arrest 1,600 at protest

Demonstrators march in defiance of ban, call for electoral reform

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained more than 1,600 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.

Phi Beta Iota: All governments are in the process of collapse as credible sole focal points for governance. None are gearing up for the inevitable emergence of bio-regional hybrid governance networks based on accountability, information-sharing, transparency, and a common interest in sustainable peace and prosperity.

Mark Zuckerberg: What To Do Once People Are Connected

Michel Bauwens: Integrity & Regional/Global Change

Growing Demands for Participatory Democracy

Open Source Insurgency = System Disruption

2011/07/09

Cheery Waves: Quote on Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer

03 Economy, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, InfoOps (IO)

All that money, and no far future strategy….

A former Microsoft exec, who has experienced C-level meetings with CEO Steve Ballmer, said he doesn't think Microsoft would have bought Skype to help Facebook compete with Google. “Steve is one of the smartest people you'll meet, processing-power smart,” he said. “But he's not a complex multivariate thinker, meaning he doesn't think 15 chess moves out. So that's why I don't think anything more complex went into the decision, other than they thought the company would make a strong asset.”

Source

2011/07/092011/07/09

DefDog: Panetta Within Reach of Defeating Al Qaeda–Four Trillion and a Quarter Century to Get Back to 1988

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Military

This would be a comic farce if it were not the largest sinkhole for money in the US arsenal of fraud. Change in people,no change in rhetoric……

Panetta says U.S. is ‘within reach' of defeating Al Qaeda

The new defense chief says intelligence uncovered in the Bin Laden raid showed that 10 years of U.S. operations against the terror network had left it with fewer than two dozen key operatives. Panetta is visiting Afghanistan for the first time as defense secretary.

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Phi Beta Iota: Panetta had so much potential at CIA, and failed to rise to the possibilities. Now at Defense there would be no more sublime illustration of lunacy than this. As we recall, Al Qaeda started in 1988 with fewer than two dozen key operatives. Four trillion borrowed dollars later, this is the best he has to offer as a success story? The US military is bad for real business.

2011/07/082011/07/08

Operation Mockingbird–Covert Action Against Americans

07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency

Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence domestic and foreign media beginning in the 1950s.

The activities, extent and even the existence of the CIA project remain in dispute: the operation was first called Mockingbird in Deborah Davis' 1979 book, Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and her Washington Post Empire. Davis' book, detailing how the media had been recruited and infiltrated by the CIA for propaganda purposes, was controversial and not always accurate.

More evidence of Mockingbird's existence emerged in the 2007 memoir American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond, by convicted Watergate “plumber” E. Howard Hunt and The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America by Hugh Wilford (2008).

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Stuart Umpleby: Papers on Reflexivity, Soros Reviews

Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Articles & Chapters, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Methods & Process, Policies, Strategy, Threats

2010

“From Complexity to Reflexivity: The Next Step in the Systems Sciences”

2009

with Emil Nedev, “A Reflexive view of a Transdisciplinary Field: The Case of Cybernetics”

2007

“Reflexivity in Social Systems: The Theories of George Soros”

1990

“A Preliminary Inventory of Theories Available to Guide the Reform of Socialist Societies”

Many Other Papers

From BRIC to BRICS–Sanya Declaration

George Soros Nails It: Intelligence with Integrity

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2011/07/08

Michel Bauwens: Integrity & Regional/Global Change

Advanced Cyber/IO, Augmented Reality, Budgets & Funding, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Key Players, Methods & Process, Officers Call, Policies, Policy, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Real Time, Serious Games, Strategy, Threats

220px-Michel_Bauwens_crop — Michel Bauwens

Integrity is becoming part of the global agenda. I especially recommend Christian Arnsperger and Mark Whitaker for interesting takes on this.

Toward a Bioregional State (Online Summary)

Whitaker argues that the basis of environmental degradation is not capitalism or market relations. Environmental degradation is supremely caused by unrepresentative state elite decisions and how they manipulate markets to serve particular consolidated materials, so solutions should focus on additional formal checks and balances against these informal ‘ecological tyrannies', via more green constitutional engineering.

Toward a Bioregional State: A Series of Letters About Political Theory and Formal Institutional Design in the Era of Sustainability (Book)

Six Framework Conditions for Global Systemic Change

“The main framework conditions that I believe would be needed for a genuine transition to a sustainable pluri-economy to get off the ground:

(http://eco-transitions.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-transition-part-4-renewing_05.html)