1996 GIQ 13/2 Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information
Smart Nation
“SPECIAL FEATURE: Creating a Smart Nation–Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information,” pp. 159-173
1995 National Information Strategy 101 Presentation to CENDI/COSPO*
NATIONAL INFORMATION STRATEGY: CENDI & COSPO AS CATALYSTS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS Introduction Open Source Roots–Copeland Anecdote Informing the Consumer or Collecting Secrets? 90% of Consumer’s Input Unclassified & Unanalyzed (Congress, White House, Bureaucracy, Foreign Governments, Lobbyists, Think Tanks, Media, Friends–<10% Intelligence) 40-80% of Producer’s Input from Open Sources–Allen Dulles New Threats/Environments Lend …
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Reference: 1995 Bill Gates Internet Tidal Wave Memorandum
Phi Beta Iota: Although labeled Confidential the document that we link to is publicly available at the US Department of Justice web site. Below is a summary of what we took away from this document, which was prescient by most standards (www.oss.net was created in 1993 by Dr. Eric Thiese, then the Internet Editor for …
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1994 Basch (US) Secrets of the Super-Searchers
Reva Basch is the hands-down Top Gun of the information broker world, now in retirement. She started the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP), she led the series of books on Secrets of the Super-Searchers (one for each market segment) and did many other extraordinary things that epitomized the craft of public intelligence. She remains …
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1994 Collier (UK) Future of the Information Industry and a New Information Paradigm
Harry Cllier created the Association for Global Strategic Information (AGSI) and has been the primary publisher for both Ben Gilad (arguably the top commercial intelligence advisor in the world) and Stephen E. Arnold (arguably the top information technology patent and capabiltiies analyst in the English-speaking world). He has long been a “hub” for the information …
1994 Fuchs (SE) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Approach to Handling Information in Humanitarian Operations within Armed Conflicts
The media has an attention span of one war at a time. The Red Cross this year is active within 34 armed conflicts.
1994 Brief to the National Research Council Review of the Army Multi-Billion Dollar Future Communications Architecture UPDATED Full Text Online + References
It was a privilege to be asked by the National Research Council to comment on the U.S. Army’s multi-billion dollar future communications architecture. I noticed immediately that the entire program assumed self-generated bits and bytes and made no provision, ZERO PROVISION, for acquiring and making sense of external information from anyone outside the DoD “grid.” …
