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Patrick Meier: Could Twitris+ Be Used for Disaster Response (and Other Apps?)

Could Twitris+ Be Used for Disaster Response? I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Hermant Purohit and colleagues who have been working on an interesting semantic social web application called Twitris+. A project of the the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis), Twitris+ uses “real-time monitoring and multi-faceted analysis of social signals to provide …

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David Isenberg: Intelligence On Demand in a Mobile Device – Hardy Har Har Choke Cough Gag with Comments by Robert Steele & RIchard Wright

INTEL-ON-DEMAND IN A WEB 2.0 WORLD IntelNews / by Timothy W Coleman Aug 21 2012 ► Aug 11. In the United States, the President’s Daily Brief (PDB), “the highest-level intelligence analysis targeted at the key national security issues and concerns of the President”, is increasingly going digital. For that matter, so is much of the …

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Chuck Spinney: Secession of the Rich–Abandoning the State and Its People

Attached is a withering critique of UnAmerican Plutocracy in the American Conservative, written by my close friend and colleague, Mike Lofgren. Readers wanting to learn more about Mike’s argument should read his new book, The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.  This book ought to be must …

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Patrick Meier: Innovation and the State of the Humanitarian System + RECAP

Innovation and the State of the Humanitarian System Published by ALNAP, the 2012 State of the Humanitarian System report is an important evaluation of the humanitarian community’s efforts over the past two years. “I commend this report to all those responsible for planning and delivering life saving aid around the world,” writes UN Under-Secretary General Valerie …

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Patrick Meier: Geo-Fencing and Grass Roots Emergency Communications and Geo-Referenced Sense-Making

How People in Emergencies Use Communication to Survive “Still Left in the Dark? How People in Emergencies Use Communication to Survive — And How Humanitarian Agencies Can Help” is an excellent report pub-lished by the BBC World Service Trust earlier this year. It is a follow up to the BBC’s 2008 study “Left in the Dark: The Unmet Need …

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Patrick Meier: How Civil Resistance Protests Improve Crowdsourced Disaster Response (and Vice Versa)

Phi Beta Iota:  This may well be the most important post Dr. Patrick Meier has done to date.  Robert Steele is writing a new chapter or article, Public Administration in the 21st Century: New Rules, Hybrid Forms, One Constant — The Public that will integrate and expand on the core insight at the conclusion of …

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20120821 Open Source Everything Highlights – Discontinued

DISCONTINUED Insufficient Interest Core Short Links TWITTER HASH: #openall DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL THE LIST:  http://tinyurl.com/OSE-LIST THE AGENCY:  http://tinyurl.com/OSA2011 THE BOOK (2012): http://tinyurl.com/OSE-PAPER THE VIDEO (2007) : http://tinyurl.com/OSE-VIDEO THE AUTHOR: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012