The Open Enterprise is a new organizational design. Unlike organizations using traditional management structures, Open Enterprises replace the command and control hierarchy with a meritocracy based on collaboration and open participation.
Director of National Intelligence Self-Destructs…Again
03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 11 Society, Budgets & Funding, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Intelligence (government), Reform
Senator: Remarks about Libya ‘should be the final straw' for Clapper (CNN)
Clapper lambastes Russia; wait, isn’t Joe Biden in Russia? (The Hill)
U.S. Intelligence Chief Says Qaddafi Has Edge in Conflict (NYT)
US should keep up Lebanon military aid: intel chief (AFP)
Losing Libya III (PajamasMedia)
Phi Beta Iota: We used to admire Jim Clapper, so much so that a member of our collective issued a press release in his defense when Donald Rumsfeld fired him for telling the truth. General Clapper appears to have forgotten how to tell the truth, and he is not leading the US Intelligence Community, he is administering it with cronies assigned to administer the various agencies. There is no longer intelligence at the top of the intelligence community. It is time for a full-spectrum house cleaning, to include the conversion of the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, which is not needed, into the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Peace Operations, which IS needed. Mike Vickers is not qualified for either position.
Media Spin: Clapper told the truth. Reality: Clapper is out of touch with reality–he cannot even outline the ten high-level threats to humanity or explain why continued fragmentation of the US Government is the greatest threat to our near term as well as a long term stability and prosperity. Russia and China are not military threats to the US but rather economic threats, and in the case of China, a demographic and scientific & technology threat. The Old Guard is dead, may they rest in peace. Sadly, there is no bench within the US Intelligence Community OR the contractor world. We anticipate nothing beneficial for our $90 billion a year.
Obama to Clapper: “Disappointed.” Duh.
Journal: Reflections on Integrity
Journal: Politics & Intelligence–Partners Only When Integrity is Central to Both
Review: Ideas and Integrities–A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
French Leaks
Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Open Government, Secrecy & Politics of SecrecyDedicated to the dissemination of public documents relating notably France and Europe.
Frenchleaks.fr (in English using Google translate)
Don't be surprised to find the site down. Thanks to Telecomix Twitter feed.
Phi Beta Iota: This is going to be happening for every government, every corporation, every non-governmental (e.g. BloodLeaks for the Red Cross). The Power of the Powerless is ON.
Crowdsourcing Mapped Water Data via SMS/txt msg
01 Poverty, 02 Infectious Disease, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 12 Water, Collective Intelligence, Technologies
WASH SMS Project Overview
The WASH SMS Project will harness the potential of mobile phones and internet technology to create a highly accessible communication and monitoring system that develops crowd-sourced map data to improve water and sanitation services for the urban poor.
Crowd-Sourcing Comes of Age on Libya
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Ethics, Government, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process, Mobile, Real Time
Volunteers Behind Libya Crisis Map: A True Story
Patrick Meier, iRevolutiion, 8 March 2011
My colleague Clay Shirky called it “Cognitive Surplus” in his recent book. Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams refer to it as “MacroWikinomics” in theirs.
What is cognitive surplus? The trillion hours of free time enjoyed by the world's educated population every year. Don and Tony describe MacroWikinomics as mass distributed collaboration on scales we've never seen before thanks to technology.
We're familiar with deficits and shortages, writes, Clay, but when it comes to surplus social capital, things quickly become unpredictable—especially when this capital scales thanks to the use of social networking platforms and Web 2.0 technologies. But then again, says Clay, “Many of the unexpected uses of communication tools are surprising because our old beliefs about human nature were so lousy.”
Phi Beta Iota: Over bagels and lox yesterday, Doug Rushkoff summarized his intention for ContactCon: “to take us back to 1992, but this time with 2012 technology and human understanding.” Here is what the US Government was told in 1992 about crowd-sourcing. 20 years and 1 trillion dollars later (20 years, average of 50 billion a year), we still have the world's most expensive ineffective wasteland pretending to “do” intelligence. The lunacy continues.
1992 AIJ OSS Steele’s Original Vision
1992 AIJ Fall ‘New Paradigm” and Avoiding Future Failures
Reference: 1992 USMC C4I Campaign Plan
1992 E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, & intelligence (An Alternative Paradigm)
Death Row Inmates Willing to Donate Organs are Rejected/Wasted
07 Health, 09 Justice, Waste (materials, food, etc)Giving Life After Death Row
By CHRISTIAN LONGO
March 5, 2011
Salem, Ore. EIGHT years ago I was sentenced to death for the murders of my wife and three children. I am guilty. I once thought that I could fool others into believing this was not true. Failing that, I tried to convince myself that it didn’t matter. But gradually, the enormity of what I did seeped in; that was followed by remorse and then a wish to make amends. I spend 22 hours a day locked in a 6 foot by 8 foot box on Oregon’s death row. There is no way to atone for my crimes, but I believe that a profound benefit to society can come from my circumstances. I have asked to end my remaining appeals, and then donate my organs after my execution to those who need them. But my request has been rejected by the prison authorities. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, there are more than 110,000 Americans on organ waiting lists. Around 19 of them die each day.
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Reference: The Global Democratic Revolution Anew
07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Analysis, Articles & Chapters, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence, ReformThe great events in tthe Arab world are part of a wider hidtorical process of worldwide democrativ advance.But the distrous events of the post-9/11 decade have made it far slower and more conflictual than needed, says Martin Shaw*
EXTRACT: “…everywhere, the unifying thread is opposition to authoritarianism and aspiration to democratic rule; and the sense of a psychological break with the dictatorial past is unmistakable.”
* Martin Shaw is professorial fellow in international relations and human rights at Roehampton University, London, and an honorary research professor of international relations at the University of Sussex. His books include War and Genocide: Organised Killing in Modern Society (Polity, 2003); The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq (Polity, 2005); and What is Genocide? (Polity, 2007).
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Phi Beta Iota: One of the most concise, thoughtful, and inspiring summaries of both the present prospects and the recent failed past, all in the context of the past half century.
