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US NATO envoy: ‘I get most info on Ukraine conflict from social networks’

“We should all ask ourselves: why is it that we know so little really about what is going on in Donbass,” the US ambassador to NATO told “Friends of Europe” forum in Brussels.

“I mean, frankly, I read more on social media about what is going on in the Donbass than I get from formal intelligence networks. This is because the networks don’t exist today,” Lute said.

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2015/04/162015/04/19

2015 ANSWERS Robert Steele for Sean Lorenz on OSINT Update 3

Access, Answers, Data, Design, Governance, Innovation, Knowledge

There is a need for hard data and statistics on OSINT — why it has been relegated to the basement and distributed rather than consolidated as with the other disciplines, what it's successes and failures have been.

In how many cases did it provide Intelligence that was critical to mission success ? NEEDS DATA

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2015/03/272015/03/26

Open Agriculture Data Alliance

Access, Cloud, Data, Design, Innovation, Resilience, Transparency

Open Agriculture Data Alliance

Modern production agriculture has the potential to dramatically improve crop yields and reduce environmental impacts by enabling farmers to properly evaluate past, current and future farm management decisions through analysis of agronomic data generated in the field. However farmers are currently overwhelmed with walled gardens of incompatible data generated by their existing systems (geodata images, logs, reports, charts). Farmer’s want the hardware and software systems they use to interoperate – that is, to share information and be able to adequately rely on each other to help support decision-making. Learn more.

2014/12/10

Stephen E. Arnold: Cisco, OpenSOC and Big Data

Access, Architecture, Data

Cisco Relies on OpenSOC through GitHub When it Comes to Big Data

The article on Enterprise Networking Planet titled Cisco Goes Open-Source for Big Data Analytics discusses the change for Cisco with some high-ups in the company. Annie Ballew, Solutions Architect in the Cisco Security Business Group, mentions that OpenSOC is not actually a Security Information and Event Management system but rather should be considered “big data technology for security analytics.” OpenSOC is freely available through Github. The article states, Read More

2014/12/072014/12/07

Patrick Meier: Digital Jedis, Micro-Mappers, UN, Typhoon Ruby

Crowd-Sourcing, Data, Geospatial

Calling All Digital Jedis: Support UN Response to Super Typhoon Ruby!

The United Nations has officially activated the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) in response to Typhoon Ruby. The DHN serves as the official interface between formal humanitarian organizations and digital volunteer groups from all around the world. These digital volunteers—also known as Digital Jedis— provide humanitarian organizations like the UN and the Red Cross with the “surge” capacity they need to make sense of the “Big Data” that gets generated during disasters. This “Big Data” includes large volumes of social media reports and satellite imagery, for example. And there is a lot of this data being generated right now as a result of Super Typhoon Ruby. To make sense of this flash flood of information, Digital Jedis use crowdsourcing platforms like MicroMappers, which was developed in partnership with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Read more.

2014/12/022014/12/02

Dev Balkind: Greg Bloom on Community Data Commons

Access, Data

Towards a Community Data Commons

Greg Bloom

This all points to a question that the civic technology movement must consider: whose responsibility is it to produce and share knowledge about a community?

2014/11/192014/11/19

Creative Commons: Open Definition 2.0

Access, Data

Open Definition 2.0 released

Today Open Knowledge and the Open Definition Advisory Council announced the release of version 2.0 of the Open Definition. The Definition “sets out principles that define openness in relation to data and content,” and is the baseline from which various public licenses are measured. Any content released under an Open Definition-conformant license means that anyone can “freely access, use, modify, and share that content, for any purpose, subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness.”

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