The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Graphic: Four Quadrants J-2 High Cell SMS Low
Graphic: OSINT and Full-Spectrum HUMINT (Updated)
Graphic: The Four Quadrants of Knowledge
Graphic: The New Craft of Intelligence
Review: Knowledge As Design
Search: management connect the dots
Worth a Look: Real-Time Intelligence (RTI)
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. . .even Zillow
Not familiar with these companies? You should be, because they are plotting the course for the future of internet privacy and how we interact with people and merchants.
Bynamite is just the latest and there is a very good article about them here. In short, Bynamite has (correctly, in my opinion) seen that each time we conduct a search on the internet, the search itself is a transaction because it gives merchants and the search engines more information about our interests, tastes, and needs. Bynamite also thinks that this sort of profile information will in short order play a very real role in the prices we pay for goods and the kinds of coupons we get. I think they are right about that as well – and this by itself is one of the most fundamental changes in the world of commerce to come along in a very long time – a set of one, or many, micro transactions prior to the primary transaction(s) that then inform the price we pay for future transactions – in essence context-rich transactions.
Aboard an Alcatel-Lucent undersea cable ship
September 5, 2010
The Ile de Batz is one of three dedicated ships that Alcatel-Lucent uses to lay the submarine fiber-optic cables that carry broadband connectivity across the oceans.
The ship is usually based in Calais, France, but made a stop recently in Greenwich, England, to pick up components from Alcatel-Lucent's factory. The telecommunications infrastructure company invited ZDNet UK to see the factory and the ship, and have a look at a vital part of the global Internet that's normally hidden by miles of water.
The Ile de Batz usually spends between 30 and 40 days at sea on each voyage. It can lay up to 200 kilometers (120 miles) of cable per day, in normal conditions, to a depth of about 8km. That cable and its components are expected to have a lifespan of about 25 years.
BBC 15 September 2010 Last updated at 05:58 ET
The inventor of the Web has called for everyone to have access to his creation for free.
Tim Berners-Lee said that he would like to see everybody given a low-bandwidth connection “by default”.
He said the web could be instrumental in giving people access to critical services such as healthcare.
Currently, he said, just one-fifth of the world's population has access to the web.
“What about the other 80%?” he asked the audience at the Nokia World conference in London.
Tip of the Hat to Pierre Levy at LinkedIn.
Phi Beta Iota: Sir Tim is on target but misses the critical point, which is that the Internet is already free, what is NOT free is the handheld device needed to access it. Earth Intelligence Network and its 24 co-founders are committed to the idea of free cell phones for the five billion poor, along with national call centers that educate them “one cell call at a time” while also providing access to the kinds of Internet application that the Grameen AppLab is creating.
Ms. Carol Dumaine is one of a very small number of individuals who have sought to pursue what Gifford Pinchot calls “intrapreneurship,” but on a global scale.
She first came to international attention when she pioneered Global Futures Partnership, an analytic endeavor seeking to enhance outreach and cross-fertilization across varied communities of practice.
She received the following recognition from the emergent M4IS2 community in 2002:
Global Futures Partnership, Central Intelligence Agency
OSS '02: 21st Century Emerging Leadership Award. Global Futures Partnership, Central Intelligence Agency. Under the leadership of Carol Dumaine with her extraordinary vision, the Global Futures Partnership has created strategic learning forums bringing the rich perspectives of the outside world into the classified environment in a manner never before attempted. This official but revolutionary endeavor nurtures an outside-in channel for integrating a diversity of perspectives. It is a vanguard toward a future in which the lines between national and global intelligence, and between governmental and nongovernmental intelligence, are blurred into extinction.
She is interested in the areas of “knowledge ecosystems,” “ecologies of innovation,” and “collective intelligence” for applicable models, practices and theories which may be useful to prototyping a new capacity for “strategic intelligence” in energy and environmental security.
Carol Dumaine is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and has a Master's degree from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
On the left is her May 2009 presentation to the International Security Forum in Geneva, and on the right, a March 2009 presentation at the Institute for Environmental Security of the Brookings Institute.
See Also at Phi Beta Iota:
Reference: 2010 Global Foresight Commons
Search: “global futures partnership” 2010
2009 Dumain Geneva Common Security Uncommon Challenges
2009 Carol Dumaine: New Security Challenges
2006 HBK Carole Dumaine Global Futures Partnership “Are You Ready”
2004 New Frontiers in Intelligence Analysis (Global Futures Partnership and Gino Germani Center)
2002 Global Futures Partnership–Vision of Lasting Value
Reference: Global Futures Partnership “Are You Ready”
External Links of Note
Carol Dumaine – Energy and Environment in a 21st Century Security Framework
Gov 2.0 Summit 09: Carol Dumaine, “Rapid Fire: Setting the Stage” repaired 24Sep 2012
Plan To Aid National Security (2008)
See Also:
Congressman James Moran Honors Carol Dumaine
Journal: LEXIS-NEXIS OSINT Kiss to CIA/OSC
Monograph: The U.S. Intelligence Community and Foreign Policy Getting Analysis Right
Reference: Italian Ministry of Defense Briefings
Reference: UnityNet — an M4IS2 Option
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Phi Beta Iota: Kristan Wheaton, now with Bob Heibel at Mercyhurst where they have developed the Mercyhurst Institute for Intelligence Studies (MIIS), the first such program in the entire USA, now a model for many others, is also the author of the seminal work, Early Warning–Using Competitive Intelligence to Anticipate Market Shifts, Control Risk, and Create Powerful Strategies. You can subscribe to the blog above, or do as we do, follow his postings as Kristan Wheaton at LinkedIn where we welcome direct connections from anyone following this Public Intelligence Blog.
The OpenBTS project was by ‘Camp Papa Legba', named after the Haitian Loa.
“In Haitian Vodou, Papa Legba is the intermediary between the loa and humanity. He stands at a spiritual crossroads and gives (or denies) permission to speak with the spirits of Guinee, and is believed to speak all human languages. He is always the first and last spirit invoked in any ceremony, because his permission is needed for any communication between mortals and the loa – he opens and closes the doorway. In Haiti, he is the great elocution, the voice of God, as it were. Legba facilitates communication, speech and understanding.”
Learn about Papa Legba (Wikipedia)
Learn About the Burning Man 2010 Implementation
Learn About the Technology
Appreciate the FCC License
Niue Pilot System, Spring 2010
Last year's Burning Man GNU Radio FAQ
This Year's Notice
From Todd Huffman to Dave Warner to Phi Beta Iota.
