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Worth a Look: Easy Video-Teleconferencing

Methods & Process, Tools

Video Teleconferencing Made Easy

There are many expensive programs for video teleconferencing. Some even require a monthly fee. Luckily, we have found Skype and VSee. These two programs are full of useful features, easy to install, user-friendly and, best of all, cost you nothing to use.

Skype, available at www.skype.com, is a free program that allows video and audio conversations with other Skype users. All you need is an internet connection and a microphone. Skype also allows you to make calls from your computer to any phone in the world for a small fee (less than 2 cents a minute).

VSee, from www.vseelab.com, is a lesser-known free program that allows you to share your desktop (application sharing) while conducting audio and video conferences. Any window on your computer screen can be shared with other VSee users in your teleconference. The better data collaboration lets you share ideas as if you were in the same room together.

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Worth a Look: Visual Language & Information Mapping

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Key Players, Methods & Process, Policies, Real Time, Technologies, Threats, Tools
Source Web Site
Source Web Site

Phi Beta Iota: Our most trusted alter ego flagged this for attention, and we love it.  We have ordered the book on Visual Language and hoping the author will soon publish on Information Mapping.  This is sheer genius, not least for its human sensitivity and its grasp of the brain-eye-hand-touch loop.  We are blown away by this, it buries the visual design phenoms of the past, while clearly being relevant to Collective Intelligence and Conscious Evolution.

Amazon Page
Amazon Page
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Search: World-Wide Linguist Supply

Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Methods & Process, Mobile, Real Time, Threats, Tools

Great search, thank you.

The OSS-EIN solution for this problem is as follows:

1.  All World Language human linguist-interpreters

2.  Telelanguage (an open source software) registration for in-house and for-fee linguists

3.  Via InfoSphere AB in Sweden, European graduate students fluent in the target language and competent in English, French, or German also

It was the latter that allowd us to find, evaluate, and report on 396 terrorist, insurgent, and opposition web sites in 29 languages over the the course of 60 days for under $60,000 in 1997.  We still do this today, using cover support plans as needed.

The solution requires that the client not be an idiot and demand US citizenship and any kind of US clearance for translations that can be handled in near real time.  For example, captured Dari documents inthe field should be digitized within minutes and translated within hours.  Anyone that cannot do this for our troops fighting in the field should be fired.

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Journal: Director of National Intelligence Reverses Progress–Time to Rethink Everything

Government, Methods & Process, Reform, Technologies, Tools

IC Meets OSINT
IC Meets OSINT

Shutdown Of Intelligence Community E-mail Network Sparks E-Rebellion

The Atlantic POLITICS

Marc Ambinder

Oct 6 2009

The intelligence community's innovative uGov e-mail domain, one of its earliest efforts at cross-agency collaboration, will be shut down because of security concerns, government officials said.  The decision, announced internally last Friday to the hundreds of analysts who use the system, drew immediate protests from intelligence agency employees and led to anxiety that other experimental collaborative platforms, like the popular Intellipedia website, are also in the target sights of managers.

It follows reports that another popular analytic platform called “Bridge,” which allows analysts with security clearances to collaborate with people outside the government who have relevant expertise but no clearances, is being killed, and indications that funding for another transformational capability, the DoDIIS Trusted Workstation, which allows analysts to look at information at a variety of clearance levels — Secret, Top Secret, Law Enforcement Sensitive– is being curtailed.
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Worth a Look: UN Spider for Space-Based Information Relevant to Disaster Relief

Tools, Worth A Look

UN Space Information
UN Space Information

UN-SPIDER aims at providing universal access to all types of space-based information and services relevant to disaster management by being a gateway to space information for disaster management support; serving as a bridge to connect the disaster management and space communities; and being a facilitator of capacity-building and institutional strengthening.

Tip of the hat to Chris Nicholas.

Found at iRevolution by Patrick Philippe Meier