20120719 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything TWITTER HASH: #openall ARCHIVE OF DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT THE BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele THE PERSON: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012 All Opens Below Line .  Also Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency, Truth, Trust, & True Cost

20120717 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything TWITTER HASH: #openall ARCHIVE OF DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT THE BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele THE PERSON: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012 All Opens Below Line .  Also Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency, Truth, Trust, & True Cost

Berto Jongman: Wikileaks, Open Data, Big Data, & Predicting Violence in Afghanistan

Computer forecasting matched rises, ebbs in Afghanistan violence Phys.Org, July 17, 2012 By Jon Bardin In August 2010, shortly after WikiLeaks released tens of thousands of classified documents that cataloged the harsh realities of the war in Afghanistan, a group of friends – all computer experts – gathered at the New York City headquarters of …

DefDog: Musubi Brings Openness to Mobile Social Networking

Very interesting….from the summary statement: Our point is that social networks are today’s version of AOL and CompuServe, not the Web and SMTP email—a service model that’s in conflict with the open, standards-based Internet. Furthermore,even though they’ve evolved to support mobile devices, today’s social services were designed for the era of PC-based Web browsers, not …

Event: 29-31 Oct Berlin Online Democracy

SAVE-THE-DATE – NOTICE Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and the “Forum Medien und Entwicklung” (FoME) invite you to the 7th FoME-Symposium From Online Activism to Offline Action Digital Media and Democratic Space Monday, October 29th – Wednesday, 31st , 2012 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

Patrick Meier: PeopleBrowsr – Next-Generation Social Media Analysis

PeopleBrowsr: Next-Generation Social Media Analysis for Humanitarian Response? As noted in this blog post on “Data Philanthropy for Humanitarian Response,” members of the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHNetwork) are still using manual methods for media monitoring. When the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) activated the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) to crisis …