Category: References

I will not replicate all that is at www.oss.net and to a much lesser extent, www.earth-intelligence.net, but do want to recognize a handful of extraordinary individuals by isolating their especially meritorious contributiions to the long-running debate about national intelligence reform and re-invention.

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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Michel Bauwens

Advanced Cyber/IO, Alpha A-D, Articles & Chapters, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Mobile, Open Government, Standards, Tools
Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens (born 21 March 1958) is a Belgian Peer-to-Peer theorist and an active writer, researcher and conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation.

Bauwens is founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property.

With Frank Theys, Bauwens is the co-creator of a 3 hour documentary TechnoCalyps, an examination of the ‘metaphysics of technology'. He taught and, with Salvino Salvaggio, co-edited a two-volume French language anthologies on the Anthropology of Digital Society.

Bauwens is the author of a number of on-line essays, including the seminal thesis Peer to Peer and Human Evolution, and The Political Economy of Peer Production. He was also editor of the email Pluralities-Integration newsletter (until 2007, when it ceased production).

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Douglas+Johnson+faith+religion
Structured Web Hits

Personal Biography at P2P Foundation

P2P in a Nutshell [See especially The State of It All]

P2P Theory Core Works

Peer Governance as a third mode of governance

Cognitive Capitalism

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LinkTV: Righteous, Professional, a Public Service

Advanced Cyber/IO, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Movies, Videos/Movies/Documentaries, Worth A Look

Phi Beta Iota: We concur with Contributor John Steiner, who sends this direct message from Link TV for consideration by one and all.  They have been added as both a Professional Site and a Righteous Site.

Link TV

Dear Friend,

Sometimes in the life of an organization, there is a defining moment— one that validates everything you believe in and stand for.

For Link TV, the democratic uprising in the Middle East has been that moment. When the people of Tunisia and Egypt roared for democracy, we brought you more than 14 hours a day of unfiltered global news from Link TV’s Mosaic, Democracy Now! and Al Jazeera English.

Short message and link button below the line.

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Identifying & Structuring Terrorist Objectives

09 Terrorism, Analysis, DHS
Berto Jongman Recommends...

REPORT (PDF 27 Pages)

Identifying and Structuring the Objectives of Terrorists

by Gregory L. Keeney and Detlof von Winterfeldt

Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, August 2009

Phi Beta Iota: The report is interesting, and provides a useful methodology for approaching the relationship between intangible values and tangible manifestations, but it has one major flaw: it does not provide for the reality that expelling dictators and the US from the Middle East might be related to actually seeking to create a prosperous Middle East at peace.  Because of that flaw, the report also fails to point out that the best strategy against Al Qaeda is NOT to try to hunt down individual Al Qaeda members, but rather to pull out of the Middle East, stop supporting dictators (and Israel) and begin waging peace at one third the cost of war.  One should not throw stones when one lives in a glass house.  The USA today is a glass house on a sand foundation.

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2011 Building a University-Based Global Education – Intelligence – Research Web

Briefings (Core), Briefings & Lectures
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Briefing (PDF with Notes, 14 Pages)

  • Concept for PhD in Global Public Policy
  • New “Standard” Green Building
  • Initial Focus on 8 Constituencies, Process of Intelligence
  • Initial focus on 10-12-8 Virtual Global Networks
  • One World Brain Institute, Many Centers for Public Intelligence
  • Global-Local Policy-Budget Outreach Concept
  • Research Collaboration (Creating the World Brain)
  • Harmonizing External Funding for Hybrid Networks
  • Internationalizing Every Student Body
  • Global Joint Instructional Programs Levering Citation Analysis
  • Blend Cognitive Science & Collective Intelligence to Create Web 4.0 (World Brain)
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Barbara McNamara–Subversion from Within

Commissions, Corruption, Hill Letters & Testimony
Richard Wright

Behind Closed Doors

On 31 January 2011 Secrecy News returned to a subject that had been discussed earlier: the federal investigations of former NSA employee Thomas Drake for revealing classified information and of a former congressional intelligence committee staffer, Diane Roark, for assisting him. This latest article essentially quotes former NSA Deputy Director Barbara McNamara as saying Roark fell into the category of staffers that were, “overly intrusive and vindictive” and employed NSA employees as her personal informants. Since I personally know something of this business, I would like to add my own observations on the subject.

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Seven Answers–Robert Steele in Rome

About the Idea, Articles & Chapters, Media Reports

The Questions:

1) Mr. Steele, you co-founded Earth Intelligence Network. Which are its main objectives?

2) You created the concepts of Smart Nation, Information Arbitrage, and Information Peacekeeping. May you explain them briefly?

3) You also point to the need of a faith-based global intelligence exchange. What do you mean?

4) When you speak about the sharing across the eight “tribes” of intelligence (academia, civil society, commercial, government, law enforcement, media, military, non-profit), which specific approach to intelligence do you suggest?

5) You argue that proper use of intelligence material derived from open sources (OSINT) could replace some of the more secret (and expensive) aspects of intelligence collection, claiming that “OSINT will displace 80% of the dollars devoted to secret sources and methods…”. But is OSINT really intelligence?

6) A close relationship between intelligence and diplomacy always existed. Which do you think should be the evolution of this relationship to counter the emerging threats and specifically the role of intelligence services in backing the negotiating and mediating efforts of governments?

7) Wild Card…

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