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EU Commission unwraps public beta of open data portal with 5800+ datasets, ahead of Jan 2013 launch

Good news for open data lovers in the European Union and beyond: the European Commission on Christmas Eve quietly pushed live the public beta version of its all-new open data portal.

For the record: open data is general information that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone. In this case, it concerns all the information that public bodies in the European Union produce, collect or pay for (it’s similar to the United States government’s Data.gov).

This could include geographical data, statistics, meteorological data, data from publicly funded research projects, and digitised books from libraries.

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From the newly launched website:

This portal is about transparency, open government and innovation. The European Commission Data Portal provides access to open public data from the European Commission. It also provides access to data of other Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies at their request.

The published data can be downloaded by everyone interested to facilitate reuse, linking and the creation of innovative services. Moreover, this Data Portal promotes and builds literacy around Europe’s data.

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Graphic: Religious Groups by Proportional Size

Citizen-Centered, Graphics, Tribes

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Phi Beta Iota: The report is severely deficient in failing to distinguish between Sunnis and Shi'ites, and between Catholics, conventional Protestants, and the Evangelicals and Pentecostalists. That kind of granularity is essential to religious intelligence and counterintelligence.

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Graphic: Religion Majorities By Country

Citizen-Centered, Graphics, Tribes

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Graphic: UN 0 Big Picture View of Global Intelligence with Integrity Supporting Documents Added

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Related Point Papers

Doc (2): Open Source Agency Synopsis 2012

Doc (2): 2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012

Doc (1): Virgin Truth 2.6

Background Articles

Doc (29): 2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.2 20 Dec 2012

Doc (21): Steele The Craft of Intelligence 3.3

Miscellaneous:

Slide (1): Big Picture

Doc (1): 2013 Public Governance Abstract

Doc (1): Open Source Everything 500 words 1.4

2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity & Sustainability

2008 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

2012/12/202012/12/20

Berto Jongman: Building Trust in Cyberspace + Robert Garigue RECAP

Advanced Cyber/IO, Security, Software, Spectrum

Building Trust in Cyberspace

The EastWest Institute released Building Trust in Cyberspace, a report featuring highlights of its 3rd Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit held in New Delhi on October 30-31, 2012. More than 300 participants from 22 countries heard from cyber experts from across the globe representing both the private and public sectors.

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Testimonial

I went to a conference that made me rethink everything that I have ever written, said and advocated about the Internet. I had a visceral, emotional reaction to the information presented at the International Youth and Technology Forum on Digital Citizenship, April Rudin – CEO The Rudin Group, The Huffington Post, April 21 2011

SmartPlanet: Russia Slams Open Arctic Route to Japan

SmartPlanet

The shortest route: Russia ships gas to Japan via Arctic

By Mark Halper | December 20, 2012, 4:29 AM PST

Want to ship some liquefied natural gas to Japan from somewhere up north, but don’t fancy taking the circuitous southern route through Panama or the Suez? Try heading through the Arctic. But first, get yourself a good nuclear powered icebreaker.

That’s what Russia’s Gazprom did a few weeks ago.

It lined up two of the country’s atomic icebreakers to escort an LNG carrier from Norway’s port of Hammerfest to a gas terminal in Tobata, Japan.

The flotilla slammed right through the Northern Sea Route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans along the Siberian coastline, heading down through the Berring Strait.

“This strategic route reduces trip time from northern Europe to northeast Asia (by) almost 40 percent comparing with routes via the southern seas and oceans,” Gazprom’s website states.

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Thomas Briggs: Comments on the US Secret Super Cloud — Dead Since 1995 — With Two Thoughts from Robert Steele

Cloud, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

Thomas Leo Briggs is a retired CIA operations officer with 3 years military experience in US Army military police, 3 years as a Special Agent in the Drug Enforcement Administration and 26 years in the CIA. He tried to make use of computer capabilities to aid and assist humint operations in a variety of ways throughout his last 18 years as an operations officer. He is also the author of Cash on Delivery: CIA Special Operations During the Secret War in Laos (Rosebank Press, 2009).

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COMMENTING ON: Richard Wright: Secret Intelligence Cloud, Charlie Allen's Warning, Comment by Robert Steele

Intelligence Agencies Move Towards Single Super-Cloud by Heny Kenyon, Aol Defense, 17 December 2012

So, what we have here, according to Mr. Kenyon, is an effort to develop a pan-agency set of computer servers so that the analysts of all intelligence community (IC) agencies may share data and resources. One reported hope being that such a system will break down existing boundaries between agencies and change their insular cultures.

The first thing a reader notices is that the alleged motivations for this super-cloud are lower costs and higher efficiency. Secondly, the CIA already operates a cloud slightly separate from an NSA cloud consisting of five other intelligence agencies and the FBI. Is that like being slightly pregnant? Does that provide truly lower costs, higher efficiency, and shared resources and data? Wouldn't one expect to find different data and resources on each cloud, though some data and resources may be the same? Moreover, the NSA cloud incorporates the smaller organization-wide clouds of its partner agencies and, in addition, the National Reconnaissance Office has its own plan to build its own cloud. Seems all of that that does not make for lowest costs and highest efficiencies – nor one super-cloud.

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Yoda: European Union Open Data Portal Opens