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Advance Order (15 Jan 15): Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response

Advanced Cyber/IO, Crowd-Sourcing, Drones & UAVs, Geospatial, Governance, Innovation, Liberation Technology, Resilience, United Nations & NGOs, Worth A Look

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This book shows us once again why Patrick Meier is a thought leader in leveraging emerging technologies for social impact. His book captures the enormous possibilities and avoidable pitfalls of big data, social media and artificial intelligence in crisis contexts. Digital humanitarians can be powerful agents for social change but ground-truthing what we see and hear digitally is more important than ever.
—Aleem Walji, Chief Innovation Advisor, Leadership, Learning, and Innovation, World Bank Group

Phi Beta Iota: The book title and description from the publisher are misleading. This is not a book about Big Data. It is a book about distributed human networks using open source information technologies to achieve situational awareness with a speed and precision that the entire US secret intelligence community (which costs $100 billion a year) cannot match.

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Patrick Meier @ Phi Beta Iota

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Yoda: New York Bans Fracking — 2 Aspects Everyone Has Missed from the NYT to Mother Jones

05 Energy, Civil Society, Commerce, Ethics, Government

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Citing Health Risks, Cuomo Bans Fracking in New York State (NYT)

Health Department Report on Fracking in New York State (Report)

New York State Just Banned Fracking (Mother Jones)

Phi Beta Iota: The media coverage of this historic decision has been mediocre. Everyone has missed two really big deals. First, the NY ban stems from a single legal couple going village to village over the years, persuading each village to pass an ordnance against fracking. Although industry took the case to the Appeals Court, they lost. Second, fracking is recommended as an energy solution in Global Trends 2030, the flagship of the US secret world's grasp of intelligence with integrity — in other words, they don't have a clue. So this specific decision on fracking in NY represents both the triumph of informed localized citizens, and the pathetic collapse of any semblance of “national” intelligence.

See Especially:

2012 Global Trends 2030: Review by Robert Steele — Report Lauds Fracking as Energy Solution, Disappoints on Multiple Fronts

SchwartzReport: Grass-Roots Anti-Fracking

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Fracking @ Phi Beta Iota

Intelligence with Integrity @ Phi Beta Iota

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Worth a Look: Academia.edu Free Access to Shared Work

Worth A Look

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Academia.edu is a place to share and follow research

16 million researchers and climbing

http://www.academia.edu/

Robert David Steele at Academia.edu

2014/12/172015/11/04

2014 Robert Steele Answers to Richard Olivier on 21st Leadership with Annotated Bibliography & Links

Answers, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Officers Call

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2014 ANSWERS Robert Steele to Richard Olivier of Findhorn on Leadership for the 21st Century

• What do 21st century leaders need to know and who do they need to be?

• How can we develop these capacities?

• What, on a systemic level, is blocking the needed leadership evolution?

• What is missing from current leadership development?

• How can large organisations really change?

• How can leaders and organisations find their ‘planetary purpose'?

Answers, Graphics, Annotated Bibliography, Leadership Posts & Printable 30-Page Document Below the Fold

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2014/12/172014/12/17

Review: The New Story – Storytelling as a Pathway to Peace

5 Star, Complexity & Resilience, Consciousness & Social IQ, Democracy, Diplomacy, Education (General), Environment (Solutions), Information Society, Intelligence (Public), Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class, Politics, Priorities, Stabilization & Reconstruction, Truth & Reconciliation, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized)

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Inger Lise Oelrich

5.0 out of 5 stars Addresses a Major Vacuum in Our Approach to Any Challenge, 16 Dec 2014

This is a hugely important book that I hope will become popular in the USA, and translated into other languages. I learned of its existence while attending a Findhorn Foundation event in Scotland, “The New Story Summit.” At one point there was a discussion of how United Nations “peacekeepers” are sent in to keep the peace but do so at the point of a gun, without any training in human interaction or the fundamentals of story-telling, narrative weaving, listening, observing, and all the other human “arts.” This one story impressed me greatly.

Having now read the book, I want to emphasize my enchantment by confessing that I am a Naked Truth kind of person, the diametric opposite of the Story Teller. As with UN peacekeepers, I have been badly trained, equipped, and organized for a world in which conversation and story-telling are alternatives to confrontation and violence.

Although the author and the book focus on the role of story-telling in relation to peace-making, I would emphasize its value in creating common prosperity at well — in creating the means of self-governance with respect for the limits of nature and the importance of doing no harm.

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