Open Power: A Notional Coalition Team to Force Electoral Reform in 2015 and Run for Reform in 2016

IMAGINE a Coalition Team led by an Independent but in fact a team of equals whose sole mission in life was to restore the integrity of the electoral process in 2015 and thence of the government, economy, and society in the USA in 2016 and beyond. Below is such a team as a starting point …

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

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 …

The Footbridge at Fairfax County — Reinventing Democracy

Three weeks ago the Fairfax County Park Authority destroyed a perfectly good footbridge built by the Miller Heights Neighborhood Association over a decade ago, one of three that enabled hundreds of people and their dogs to walk the full length of the stream trail, with views of running water and birds, including our neighborhood heron, …

Stephen E. Arnold: Enterprise Search Fails to Meet Legal Standards

Information Governance Standards Group Suggests Caution in Approaching eDiscovery The records management group ARMA International weighs in about search with an article in their Information Management magazine: “Enterprise Search vs E-Discovery Search: Same or Different?” The short answer, not surprisingly, is “different.” Writer Kamal Shah explains: “To date, most enterprises have used the same search …

Vladimir Putin: New Rules or a Game Without Rules — Defining Responsible Powers and Investing in Human Capital Instead of Propaganda

New Rules or a Game without Rules: “We Need a New Global Consensus of Responsible Powers” We are publishing full text of today’s address of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to the members of Vaidai International Discussion Club on 24 October 2014 in Sochi. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F9pQcqPdKo Complete Transcript Below the Fold — Strongly Recommended!

George Por: Augmenting the Collective Intelligence of the Ecosystem of Systems Communities – Introduction to the Design of the CI Enhancement Lab (CIEL)

Augmenting the Collective Intelligence of the Ecosystem of Systems Communities: Introduction to the Design of the CI Enhancement Lab (CIEL) George Pór* Director Community Intelligence, London, UK The quality of collective intelligence flowing in and across systems communities of various disciplines, and the fragmentation or connectedness of their mental models of the world, shape their …