Lynn Wheeler: Open Source Rating to Smarch Ratings Crime Ring in NYC?

Testimony In the congressional hearings into the pivotal role that the rating agencies played in the financial mess, was that the rating agencies were paid for triple-A ratings even when both the rating agencies and the sellers knew that the toxic CDOs weren’t worth triple-A. TV news commentary during the hearings was that the rating …

2007 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2.0

Now that everyone is paying attention, this is being posted in full text online in support of a larger M4IS2 / OSE dialog. Document:  Strategic OSINT (Chapter 6 in Strataegic Intelligence Vol 2) 10 MB Links added below throughout, updated where appropriate. See Also: 21st Century Intelligence Core References 2.0 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Robert …

Graphic: Changing Centers of Gravity for Intelligence in an Open World

Source Page 11 Steele-Wright Commentary on Source with Graphics See Also: 2011 Open Source Agency: Executive Access Point Graphic: OSINT Competing Models Graphic: OSINT, We Went Wrong, Leaping Forward Books on Intelligence & Information Operations by Robert David STEELE Vivas et al Reference: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) – All Humans, All Minds, All the Time [Full …

Search: open education / digital learning [as of 30 Oct 2012]

Open education has at least three components:  free access to learning resources; digital access to formerly analog learning resoources (e.g. instructors in classrooms); and learning accomplishment validation (becoming common) or credentialing (rare at this time).  More broadly defined, open education is “root” for any society desiring to be both democratic and prosperous.  Open education has …