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2013/09/23

Patrick Meier: Seven Principles for Big Data & Resilience

Seven Principles for Big Data and Resilience Projects Authored by Kate Crawford, Patrick Meier, Claudia Perlich, Amy Luers, Gustavo Faleiros and Jer Thorp, 2013 PopTech & Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellows. The following is a draft “Code of Conduct” that seeks to provide guidance on best practices for resilience building projects that leverage Big Data and Advanced Computing. These …

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2013/09/202013/09/21

Sterling Seagrave: Benjamin Fulford Comments on Trillions of dollars’ worth of bonds now in the possession of the White Dragon Society

Thanks Jill for passing this over…..I will comment throughout. This is exactly where I got my feet wet and where the real power of the world resides and that is with the true owners of these instruments. All governments are loaned these and of course there is a history on that alone. benjamin July 2, …

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2013/09/202013/09/20

Event: 20-26 SEP 13 Stockholm Global Risk Review — Everything EXCEPT Intelligence with Integrity (Informed Ethics)

Global Strategic Review 2013 opens tonight The 10th IISS Global Strategic Review conference opens tonight in Stockholm at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre and the Grand Hotel. ‘Assessing Global Risk’ is the theme of the 2013 GSR which runs from Friday 20 September to Sunday 22 September.

2013/09/202013/09/20

NIGHTWATCH (2): Russia Draws the Line at Syria

IN REVERSE ORDER (TODAY FIRST, YESTERDAY SECOND) Russia: President Putin today accused the West of worsening the situation in Syria by “blowing up an internal conflict” there. His remarks were broadcast by state news television channel Rossiya 24. At an international meeting Putin interrupted former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon who said mass murder in …

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2013/09/202013/09/20

Review: American Interests in South Asia (Ho Ho Ho)

Nicholas Burns (Editor) , Jonathon Price (Editor) , Joseph S. Nye Jr. (Foreword) , Brent Scowcroft (Foreword) 3.0 out of 5 stars Parallel Universe — Divorced from Reality, September 20, 2013 I am in Afghanistan with the opportunity to think about all of the external and internal realities impacting on 2014, and this book attracted my immediately interest, along with Afghanistan: The Perfect Failure: A War Doomed By …

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2013/09/182013/09/18

Patrick Meier: MicroMappers: Microtasking for Disaster Response

MicroMappers: Microtasking for Disaster Response My team and I at QCRI are about to launch MicroMappers: the first ever set of microtasking apps specifically customized for digital humanitarian response. If you’re new to microtasking in the context of disaster response, then I recommend reading this, this and this. The purpose of our web-based microtasking apps …

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2013/09/18

Berto Jongman: Internet Balkanization, Cyber-Crime, Cyber-Espionage

Whither The Internet In An Age Of Cyber-Espionage? As everyone should know by now, not quite two weeks ago the latest nugget from Edward Snowden via Glenn Greenwald and co-authors was revealed, and was that the NSA and its UK counterpart the GSHQ “have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds …

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