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Journal: Public Diplomacy & Social Networking

02 Diplomacy, 11 Society, Mobile, Real Time

State to award grants to increase social networking in the Middle East, North Africa

By Gautham Nagesh 10/09/2009

The State Department recently unveiled a pilot program that will award up to $5 million in grants to expand the use of social networking technologies in the Middle East with the goal of increasing citizen engagement and civic participation.

In an announcement released on Sept. 25, the department said it will award five organizations between $500,000 and $2.5 million to expand the availability of social networking and new media capabilities in the Middle East and North Africa. The program is sponsored by the Middle East Partnership Initiative, part of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department.

Phi Beta Iota: On balance, positive.  More positive would be a global initiative to give away cell phones and free connectivity to the five billion poor starting in India and China.

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Journal: PA & NYPD Criminalize Twitter

10 Security, 11 Society, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Mobile, Real Time, Reform

Elliot Madison Accused Of Using Twitter To Tweet Police Actions At G-20 Protests

Tweeting Without a Permit
Tweeting Without a Permit

NEW YORK — A self-described New York City anarchist has been accused of tweeting the location of police officers to protesters trying to evade them during the Group of 20 economic summit in Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania State Police arrested Elliot Madison alleging he used Twitter to direct the movement of protesters and inform them about law enforcement actions at last month's summit.

Phi Beta Iota: We are–as usual–NOT making this up.  Coming as it does with repeated rumors of on-going preparations to federalize all state and local police forces “as necessary” and the long-standing concerns about the internment camps for use in the event of “civil unrest,” we have to ask ourselves, can this be for real?  According to the Huffington Post, it most assuredly is.

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Journal: Real-Time Intelligence

Real Time

UN – Successful Fight against Drug Trafficking, Transnational Organized Crime Requires Interlocking National, Regional, International Strategies, Third Committee Told

ISRIA – France
The time had come to consider how to better implement the decisions of the …… to share real–time intelligence on illicit drugs and associated crimes, …

No Substitute for Boots on the Ground

Wall Street Journal – USA
Tellingly, the Biden camp has yet to offer any details about the sources of real–time intelligence needed to execute precision strikes, or the locations of …

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Journal: Ron Paul, Grand Strategy, Ahem

Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Key Players, Peace Intelligence, Policies, Real Time, Threats
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Chuck Spinney has nominated this short piece,

Instead of Bombs and Bribes, Let’s Try Empathy and Trade

Representative Ron Paul, October 6, 2009

What if tomorrow morning you woke up to headlines that yet another Chinese drone bombing on U.S. soil killed several dozen ranchers in a rural community while they were sleeping? That a drone aircraft had come across the Canadian border in the middle of the night and carried out the latest of many attacks? What if it was claimed that many of the victims harbored anti-Chinese sentiments, but most of the dead were innocent women and children? And what if the Chinese administration, in an effort to improve its public image in the U.S., had approved an aid package to send funds to help with American roads and schools and promote Chinese values here?

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Journal: Afghanistan as Microcosm

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Key Players, Policies, Policy, Real Time, Reform, Strategy, Threats
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10 Steps To Victory In Afghanistan

Reform or Go Home (David Kilcullen)    End Suicide Attacks (Robert Pape)    If You Can’t Beat Them, Let Them Join (Linda Robinson)    Pump Up the Police (Anthony Cordesman)    Kick Out Corruption (Nader Nadery)    Learn to Tax From the Taliban (Gretchen Peters)    Polls Have the Power (Merrill McPeak)    Take a Risk (Andrew McDonald Exum)    Don’t Believe That We Can Afford to Lose (Frederick Kagan)    Pakistani Patronage (Paul Pillar)

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4 Broad Strategies Weighed — From Pullout To Boosting Troop Level

Getting out   Scaling back

Staying put    Ramping up

Strategic Analytic Matrix

Integrated Analytics
Integrated Analytics

Phi Beta Iota: In the context of holistic strategy and integrated analytics as depicted by the two thumbnails (click on each to get to the larger graphic), we are stunned by the mediocrity and myopia of the “conventional wisdom.”  It's all connected.  Absent a coherent world view and strategic analytic model with integrity, this Administration is toast.  The Republic has no strategy, no mature threat construct, no Whole of Government planning, programming, and budgeting system (PPBS), and zero integrity in the sense of being honest about the totality of the substance of governance.

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2009 Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth

About the Idea, Articles & Chapters, Real Time

Robert David STEELE Vivas
Robert David STEELE Vivas

Earth is at a tipping point. Changes to the planet that used to take 10,000 years now take three.  This means that both real-time science and real-time policy and decision-making will be the non-negotiable essence of success in the 21st Century.

Near-Earth Objects (NEO) are a more immediate threat than climate change; energy from geothermal, nuclear (as an intermediate solution), and combinations of solar, wind, and bacteria energy are desperately needed; and no nation, least of all the USA, is being intelligent about addressing the ten high-level threats to humanity or harmonizing policies and spending across all policies from Agriculture to Water.

Only a World Brain with an embedded EarthGame able to honestly depict “true costs” in near-real-time, will allow the eight demographic challengers to nurture and harvest the Earth instead of destroying it. Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 Public Charity, has come up with one three-part big idea for creating a prosperous world at peace:

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Journal: Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs)

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Real Time, Threats

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Collaborative Innovation Networks (COIN) – Introduction

COINs are the most efficient social mechanisms to develop successful products in R&D, grow better customer relationships, establish better project management processes, and build higher-performing teams.

While it may appear that COINs seem to come to life serendipitously at the initiative of intrinsically motivated individuals without organizational blessing, the good news is that there are actual strategies an organization can employ to uncover, cultivate and nurture fledgling COINs to become more effective. In fact, there are even things individuals can do to become more productive COIN members.

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