Pakistan: Pakistan is coping with three major internal political crises and one foreign crisis. Any one of these could prevent the first ever transfer of power in March 2013 between successive constitutional, civilian, elected governments in the history of Pakistan.
Search: bibliography for osint (new master list of archive link tables and directory entry points)
SearchesOSS.Net Library Sortable Table of Contents 1.2 Sorted by Focus Author Year
1988-2009 OSINT-M4IS2 TECHINT Chronology
Academic Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Analysis Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Budget Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Commerce Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Golden Candle & Platinum Lifetime Awards (1992-2006)
Geospatial Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Government Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Handbook Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
History of Bureaucratic War on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Law Enforcement Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Legislation Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Media Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Military Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Policy Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Process Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Reader Training Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Reform Archives for Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Strategy Archives for Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Technologies Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Threat Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Tools Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
UN-NGO Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Vendor Pitch Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Here at Phi Beta Iota, the following are central points of entry:
28 January 2013 0830-1000 Elliot School Washington DC Leon Fuerth and Thomas Pickering, “Anticipatory Governance: Upgrading Government for the 21st Century” + Past References
Ethics, GovernmentWorth a Look: The Real News
Worth A Look
Michel Bauwens: Aaron Swartz’s Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto
#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Culture
Aaron Swartzās Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Written by Aaron Swartz, July 2008, Eremo, Italy
āInformation is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The worldās entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? Youāll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost.
That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? Itās outrageous and unacceptable.
Continue reading “Michel Bauwens: Aaron Swartz's Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto”
Michel Bauwens: Cloud Computing as Virtual Prison
IO Impotency15th January 2013
Republished from David Bollier:
āAs more and more computing moves off our PCs and into āthe Cloud,ā Internet users are gaining access to a wealth of new software-based services that can exploit vast computing capacity and memory storage. Thatās wonderful. But what about our freedom to create and share things as we wish, free from corporate or government surveillance or over-reaching copyright enforcement? The real danger of the Cloud is its potential to limit how we may create and share what we want, on our terms.
There are already signs that large corporations like Google, Facebook, Twitter and all the rest will quietly warp the design architecture of the Internet to serve their business interests first. A terrific overview of the troubling issues raised by the Cloud can be found in the essay, āThe Cloud: Boundless Digital Potential or Enclosure 3.0,ā by David Lametti, a law professor at McGill University, and published by the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology. An earlier version is available at the SSRN website.
Lametti states his thesis simply: āI argue that the Cloud, unless monitored and possibly directed, has the potential to go beyond undermining copyright and the public domain ā Enclosure 2.0 ā and to go beyond weakening privacy. This round, which I call āEnclosure 3.0ā, has the potential to disempower Internet users and conversely empower a very small group of gatekeepers. Put bluntly, it has the potential to relegate Internet users to the status of digital sheep.ā
Continue reading “Michel Bauwens: Cloud Computing as Virtual Prison”
NIGHTWATCH: French Advance, Islamic Militant Tourism Up, Touaregs Discover Government Better than Islamists
Cultural Intelligence, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency
Mali: On the fourth day of the French military action in Mali, Islamist rebels seized another town in southern Mali, but were driven out of Konna. French officials said Diabaly, 400km (250 miles) from the capital, Bamako, was taken in a counter-attack. French aircraft continued to bomb rebel gathering areas in the north and northeast.
Comment: Diabaly is in territory considered government-held. Apparently the Islamist rebels attacked from Mauritania with a daunting force of five pickup trucks carrying rebel fighters. The Malian garrison at Diabaly claims to have fought for 10 hours, but appears to have run away. Hmmm.
Mali's Touareg rebels, meanwhile, announced they are prepared to assist French military forces in Mali by confronting jihadist groups on the ground in the country's northern region, a senior Tuareg official said on 14 January.
