Berto Jongman: Managing Famine Risk – Linking Early Warning to Early Action

Chatham House Report Rob Bailey, April 2013 Report: Managing Famine Risk: Linking Early Warning to Early Action Executive Summary: Managing Famine Risk: Linking Early Warning to Early Action Despite strong economic growth in many countries of the Horn and Sahel, environmental and demographic changes coupled to low levels of political inclusion and high instability mean …

INTERVIEW: Open Everything – with Robert David STEELE Vivas UPDATED to Add Parts V and VI

Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas David Balaban Privacy PC, April 2-8, 2013 PART I  Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas This section open with Mr. Steele’s thoughts on CIA and CIA IT. PART II:  Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas. Part 2 This section of …

Patrick Meier: Digital Humanitarians and The Theory of Crowd Capital

Digital Humanitarians and The Theory of Crowd Capital An iRevolution reader very kindly pointed me to this excellent conceptual study: “The Theory of Crowd Capital”. The authors’ observations and insights resonate with me deeply given my experience in crowdsourcing digital humanitarian response. Over two years ago, I published this blog post in which I wrote that, …

Nick Eftimiades: New Course Intellience & National Security in the Undiscovered County

New King’s College Course on Intelligence and National Security Posted by neftimiades on March 31, 2013 Posted in: espionage, future, intelligence, national security, security, technology. Tagged: future, futurism, intelligence, national security, security. Leave a Comment This is a new graduate course I will be teaching for King’s College War Studies Department beginning autumn, 2013.  The course …

Winslow Wheeler: AF-IQ – $4 to $6 Trillion Cost — All Predictable

Below find excerpts of Harvard Professor Linda Bilmes latest analysis of the costs of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Note that the costs are now estimated to lay somewhere between $4 trillion and $6 trillion. Find this important study at the Harvard website: Bilmes, Linda J. “The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How …