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Mongoose: NATO Relies on Social Media, Not CIA

Access, Data, Politics
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US NATO envoy: ‘I get most info on Ukraine conflict from social networks’

“We should all ask ourselves: why is it that we know so little really about what is going on in Donbass,” the US ambassador to NATO told “Friends of Europe” forum in Brussels.

“I mean, frankly, I read more on social media about what is going on in the Donbass than I get from formal intelligence networks. This is because the networks don’t exist today,” Lute said.

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Jean Lievens: C. M. Rubin Interview Howard Rheingold on Global Search for (Digital) Education + PBI Meta

Education
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The Global Search for Education: Digital

“We live in a world now where anybody can ask any question anywhere and get thousands of answers within seconds, but it is up to the questioner to determine which of those answers are legit, which are false, which are intentionally misleading.” — Howard Rheingold

The literacies today: attention, crap detection, participation, collaboration, and network awareness.

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Robin Good: Tool to Import, Filter, Visualize, & Publish Any Spreadsheet Online – Silk

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Import, Filter, Visualise And Publish Any Spreadsheet Online: Silk

Silk is a web tool to publish online spreadsheet-based data on a specific topic. The service, which just released a new version of its offering, allows to easily convert any existing data-set into professional-looking data displays, charts, grids, and lists that can be embedded on any site and which can be viewed in multiple ways. The value of Silk is specifically in making it easy and immediate for anyone to elegantly display and publish data sets in one of several alternative formats which include:

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Worth a Look: It’s Time Network

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logo its timeIt's Time Network is building a framework to support an inclusive and creative community of visionary leaders and change agents who are coalescing a long-term, broad-based civic engagement movement to evolve democracy, to heal and regenerate the Earth’s biosphere and to build local, bioregional, national and global economies that care for the Earth and for all people, that share prosperity and that conserve resources.

http://www.itstimenetwork.org/mission_vision_values

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Definition: Collective Intelligence by Robert Steele — A Conversation with Tom Atlee

Collective Intelligence, Definitions
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Tom Atlee – Robert Steele

FINAL:

* Collectively generated decision-support tailored to any need at any point in time and space — blends holistic analytics, true cost economics, and open source everything engineering toward a notional 24/7 World Brain.

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Mongoose: Watching the Watchers

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Ethics
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On stage, McGrath reiterated: “I think that open source intelligence is one of our biggest assets in understanding secret surveillance program because it’s something that can’t be shut down and it’s something that can be collected in a very decent decentralized fashion,” he said. “We have the potential to actually build a surveillance state that is a decentralize check on the surveillance state based on this open data.”

http://rt.com/usa/256285-republica-mcgrath-icwatch-database/

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Round-Up: The Human Factor

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I am very pleased to see new interest in my original posts on The Human Factor, augmented by thoughtful contributions from others. The most popular is below, the rest are lined up below the fold.

2012 Robert Steele: The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Concepts & Doctrine? Implications for Human & Open Source Intelligence 2.0

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