Patrick Meier: Social Media Hashtag Standards

Establishing Social Media Hashtag Standards for Disaster Response The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has just published an important, must-read report on the use of social media for disaster response. As noted by OCHA, this document was inspired by conversations with my team and I at QCRI. We jointly recognize that innovation in humanitarian technology …

Yoda: Financial Times Loves Google — But Will This Love Keep Google Going?

FT interview with Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page Even the search engine’s original mission is not big enough for what he now has in mind Page estimates that only about 50 investors are chasing the real breakthrough technologies that have the potential to make a material difference to the lives of most people on …

Stephen E. Arnold: Big Data & Artificial Intelligence — Worse Than Gambling

Looking for an AI Silver Bullet to Make Software Smart? Keep Looking Here in Harrod’s Creek, Kentucky there is not too much chatter about machine learning. It is hunting season. Time to get out the Barrett Automatic Rifle and go hunting for varmints. Sundown yesterday when calm returned to the hollow, I read “Machine-Learning Maestro …

Berto Jongman: German Government Paper on Known US / CIA, USN, US Army Proliferation of Ebola in Africa and Asia

America’s Weaponization of Ebola Wayne MADSEN | 24.10.2014 | 00:00 Evidence has recently surfaced in a 2009 U.S. embassy Berlin cable to the U.S. State and Defense Departments that German authorities hesitated to send hemorrhagic fever cultures to the suspected biological warfare laboratory at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in …

JZ Liszkiewicz: Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – Financial Services Annex

Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – Financial Services Annex Today, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Financial Services Annex, which covers 50 countries and 68.2% of world trade in services. The US and the EU are the main proponents of the agreement, and the authors of most …

Berto Jongman: Accusations of CIA and DoD Funding of Ebola Trials In Africa — Perhaps Also Venezuela?

U.S. is Responsible for the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Liberian Scientist EXTRACT The US Department of Defense (DoD) is funding Ebola trials on humans, trials which started just weeks before the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The reports continue and state that the DoD gave a contract worth $140 million dollars to …