The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Ms. Carol Dumaine is one of a very small number of individuals who have sought to pursue what Gifford Pinchot calls “intrapreneurship,” but on a global scale. She first came to international attention when she pioneered Global Futures Partnership, an analytic endeavor seeking to enhance outreach and cross-fertilization across varied communities of practice. She received …
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Turkey Update. Prime Minister Erdogan declared victory on Sunday, 12 September, as voters approved a constitutional reform package in a highly debated referendum that will restructure the judiciary and curb military powers. The referendum was regarded as a vote of confidence in Erdogan’s government. Prime Minister Erdogan dismissed concerns about his government moving towards an …
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The buzz continues—agile, cloud computing, text analytics, virtualization, open source, cool BI, Web 2.0, social media, mobile BI. But what do these terms really mean for business intelligence and data warehousing? It’s been difficult enough to implement effective and valuable BI/DW solutions with existing technologies. Will these emerging technologies make your job easier or harder? …
This yields three adequate results, but the human in the loop can do better. Step One: Acknowledge and embrace the eight tribes of intelligence as stakeholders. Create, as Sweden did, a Cooperation Committee (the Swedes get annoyedwhen you call it a Coordination Committee). Step Two: Use the military, and particularly the National Guard or law …
Multilingual Web should be a priority for India: W3C chief Six months into his new job, Jeffrey Jaffe, Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Consortium has his work cut out The World Wide Web Consortium or W3C, as it is better known, is where the industry meets to set standards for the Web. …
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On the move to open source (or some other non-open source license like CC) and which license will be used: “Reason for making Geoportal open source? Like anyone, Esri responds to trends in the IT industry, we listen to requests from our users to take a more collaborative approach to development, and source code was …
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Renewed instability in global food markets requires urgent response, UN expert said An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on governments and the international community to promptly tackle the renewed instability of global food markets, noting the related social unrest that has hit some countries in recent weeks. Tip of the Hat to …
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