Category: Analysis

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Worth a Look: SystemWiki.org & Co-Mapping

Analysis, Augmented Reality, Budgets & Funding, Collective Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process, Tools, Worth A Look

Graphic by Georg Schilling

UPDATE of 22 Aug 2010 to add Viral Video (John Pourdehnad)  that started the dialog.

Ackoff Virtual Inqiry Center (AVIC)

There is a discussion underway at Systems Community of Inquiry focused on developing the concepts for a network of Ackoff Virtual Inqiry Centers (AVIC) located around the world. Early on, the original vision for AVIC, offered by Dr. John Pourdehnad, was that AVIC serve as a nervous system for the Systems and Design Community in Dr. Russell Ackoff’s name. With this belief, Dr. Pourdehnad also made clear the need for AVIC to be designed Ideally and created by the stakeholders themselves. The concept is being extended by Gene Bellinger and Kent Myers.  The work of Clay Shirky is most helpful:
See Also:
Ackoff Centers for Design Thinking Version of April 12, 2010
Co-Mapping
Co-Mapping for Educators
Design Thinking
Idealized Design
Knowledge Management in Inquiring Organizations
Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM)
Virtual Systemic Inquiry (VSI)
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Search: mapping community values

Analysis, Augmented Reality, Geospatial, InfoOps (IO), IO Mapping, Maps, Policy, Reform, Searches, Tools

Here is what comes up on Phi Beta Iota, followed by additional “human in the loop” suggestions.

Review : Global Shift–How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity

Here is what you were probably looking for:

Mapping community values for natural capital and ecosystem services

A couple more links we like (remember, US still does not have 1:50,000 charts for 90% of the world):

Mapping Communities:  Ethics, Values, Practice (PDF,  2005)
Understanding Your Audience and Your Community – Mapping Software that Reveals Key Characteristics (HTML, 2008)
Good practices in participatory mapping (PDF, 2009)
Community-mapping projects for sustainability (HTML, 2009)
Community Asset Mapping (HTML, 2010)

Amazon Links:

Value-Stream Mapping Books (focus on business process value mapping)

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Journal: Human-Centered Computing (Not…)

Analysis, Augmented Reality, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), IO Multinational, Open Government, Reform

Human-centered computing should be–but is not today–about connecting all humans with all information in near-real-time, while providing back office tools that elevate the human brain and more properly plan information and communications technologies in a support role.  See for example our Citizen-Centered Graphics and all of the OSS/EIN Books.  Where the emergent meme is off-target is in focusing on the relationship of the computer to the individual, rather than the whole.  Hacking Humanity is the new meme.

TRADITIONAL

Human-Centered Computing (Wikipedia)
Human-Centered Computing Cluster (HCC)
Human-Centered Computing in Education (Links)
Human-Centered Computing: A Multi-Media Perspective (PDF circa 2005)

WORLD-BRAIN ORIENTATION

Review: The World Is Open–How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education
Review: Making Learning Whole–How Seven Principles of Teaching can Transform Education
Review (Guest): Cognitive Surplus–Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
2010: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Updated
Review: Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution
Review: Consilience–the Unity of Knowledge
Review: The Unfinished Revolution–Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do For Us
Review: Philosophy and the Social Problem–The Annotated Edition

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Technology & Web 2.0 to 4.0

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Worth a Look: SciVal from Elsevier

Analysis, Collective Intelligence, Maps, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Research resources, Tools, Worth A Look

SciVal Home

We have in the past highlighted the work of Dick Klavans, who along with Brad Ashton is one of our foremost Scientific & Technical Intelligence (S&TI) colleagues.  Apart from his book with Brad, Keeping Abreast of Science and Technology: Technical Intelligence for Business and his new web site, Maps of Science, see also on this site: 2002 Klavans (US) Technology Mapping: A Workshop on (Open) Sources & Methods for Identifying Commercial Opportunities in Technology and 2002 Klavans (US) Tomorrow’s Hotspots: Identifying Commercial Opportunities from Science.

SciVal Home

Elsevier is now commercializing what Dick has been doing for the last twenty years in one-of productions, and we believe this capability will be extraordinary, not only in performance measurement and performance enhancement for specific disciplinary units, but in demanding that inter-disciplinary and integrative problem-finding and solving come back into being.

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Worth a Look: CrowdMap (Beta)

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Augmented Reality, Citizen-Centered, Collective Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Earth Intelligence, Geospatial, Historic Contributions, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), International Aid, IO Mapping, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Maps, Methods & Process, microfinancing, Mobile, Officers Call, Open Government, Policy, Reform, Research resources, Technologies, Tools, Worth A Look

Crowdmap (Liquida)

Crowdmap allows you to…

+ Collect information from cell phones, news and the web.
+ Aggregate that information into a single platform.
+ Visualize it on a map and timeline.

Crowdmap is designed and built by the people behind Ushahidi, a platform that was originally built to crowdsource crisis information. As the platform has evolved, so have its uses. Crowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of Ushahidi without having to install it on your own web server.

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Graphics: Twitter as an Intelligence Tool

Reference: How to Use Twitter to Build Intelligence

Journal: Tech ‘has changed foreign policy’

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Journal: Just How Important is the WikiLeaks AF Dump?

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, Analysis, Budgets & Funding, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Methods & Process, Misinformation & Propaganda, Officers Call, Reform, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy
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OP-ED COLUMNIST

Kiss This War Goodbye

By FRANK RICH, New York Times,  July 31, 2010

A version of this op-ed appeared in print on August 1, 2010, on page WK8 of the New York edition.

IT was on a Sunday morning, June 13, 1971, that The Times published its first installment of the Pentagon Papers. Few readers may have been more excited than a circle of aspiring undergraduate journalists who’d worked at The Harvard Crimson. Though the identity of The Times’s source wouldn’t eke out for several days, we knew the whistle-blower had to be Daniel Ellsberg, an intense research fellow at M.I.T. and former Robert McNamara acolyte who’d become an antiwar activist around Boston. We recognized the papers’ contents, as reported in The Times, because we’d heard the war stories from the loquacious Ellsberg himself.
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What was often forgotten last week is that the Pentagon Papers had no game-changing news about that war either and also described events predating the then-current president.

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The papers’ punch was in the many inside details they added to the war’s chronicle over four previous administrations and, especially, in their shocking and irrefutable evidence that Nixon’s immediate predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, had systematically lied to the country about his intentions and the war’s progress.