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Robert David Steele

Open Source Governance: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

Robert Steele, Open Source Observatory (European Union), 23 May 2016

Open source solutions – primarily in software but increasingly also in hardware – cost roughly one tenth of proprietary offerings. The switch to open source software enables financial and public service scalability as well as quality sustainability at all levels of governance. Unfortunately this understanding is not widespread.

As we go forward in a world where software seems likely to impact on every public and private capability, there are seven questions to be considered by public administrators as well as private sector managers.

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2016/05/232016/05/22

Worth a Look: The Internet is Not the Answer

5 Star, Information Society, Information Technology

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The Internet Is Not the Answer, by longtime Internet skeptic Andrew Keen, offers a comprehensive look at what the Internet is doing to our lives. The book traces the technological and economic history of the Internet, from its founding in the 1960s through the rise of big data companies to the increasing attempts to monetize almost every human activity. Startling and important, The Internet Is Not the Answer is a big-picture look at what the Internet is doing to our society and an investigation of what we can do to try to make sure the decisions we are making about the reconfiguring of our world do not lead to unpleasant, unforeseen aftershocks.

2016/05/222016/05/29

Yoda: Death to Elsevier & Thomson Reuters — Academic Information Breaks Free…

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice

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Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone

In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website.

John Bohannon, Science, 28 April 2016

To read a 2011 paper in Applied Mathematics and Computation, Rahimi would have to pay the publisher, Elsevier, $28. A 2015 paper in Operations Research, published by the U.S.-based company INFORMS, would cost $30.

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2016/05/222016/05/21

Antechinus: The Controlled Left

Cultural Intelligence

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The Gatekeepers of the Left

Refusal to address the core issues of US Foreign and Defense policy, which are the root causes of a pervading culture of war and militarism that has taken over the nation in the years since WWII. are part of a larger pattern of “regulated resistance”, a system by which dissent is carefully managed and constrained by self, overt, or covert censorship; denial-based-psychology; fear of personal or professional criticism and reprisal; and pressure from powers above including elected officials and those establishment foundations which flood millions into the not-for-profit activist sector.

2016/05/222016/05/21

Interview – Robert J. Bunker

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

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Interview – Robert J. Bunker

Prospective students must really do their due diligence before getting into a security studies program. Quite a few of the older generation of security scholars simply do not understand the 21^st century threat environment. Additionally, if the program you are looking at is in a department where only formal international political economy (IPE) is taught—that is, such studies never touch upon the informal or illicit economies—your education is going to be imperiled by delusional thinking. To have an actual impact upon the future, young security scholars need to learn about the world that actually exists today and not the one that existed decades ago.

2016/05/212016/05/18