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Worth a Look: Open Water and Sanitation Wiki
12 Water, Research resources, Worth A Look
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+ water.re-configure.org (45 pages of links/resources)
+ Books on water (and reviews)
Worth a Look: Openculture.com
Audio, Mobile, Research resources, Videos/Movies/Documentaries, Worth A LookEvent: 20 Oct, NYC, Angel Orensanz Center, CONTACT
03 Economy, 11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Corporations, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, History, Open Government, Technologies
UPDATED TO PROVIDE OPEN WIKI PAGE
Conceived and facilitated by Douglas Rushkoff, Contact seeks to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity.
Bringing together technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders in the networked future, this summit will hatch new ideas, connect collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond. See the new event forums.
Phi Beta Iota: Whether or not Facebook and GroupOn are paying attention, this event has the potential to turn into the seed crystal for a self-organizing World Brain and Global Game.
NIGHTWATCH on Egypt…and Libya
08 Wild Cards, Advanced Cyber/IO, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural IntelligenceEgypt: Protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo, are asking citizens to take part in demonstrations on 11 February, for the “Day of Confrontation,” Al Arabiya reported. One news service reported tens of millions of text messages about the event. According to a report in the Indian Express, “organizers” want a “big push” on Friday that could include storming parliament and the state television station in Cairo.
Event(s): 14-22 May, Local OpenGov “Innovation Summits”
Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Open GovernmentIdentifying & Structuring Terrorist Objectives
09 Terrorism, Analysis, DHS
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.
