Yoda: US Diplomatic-Commercial Internet Initiative — Affordable Good, Proprietary Bad

Half-full, glass is. Hillary Clinton Helps Silicon Valley on Her Way Out the Door Elizabeth Dwoskin BloombergBusinessWeek, 4 February 2013 Taking the podium in the State Department’s Ben Franklin Room one last time on Thursday before stepping down, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thanked lots of people, offered reminiscences, and announced a flurry of last-minute …

Patrick Meier: Does Big Data Lead to a Knowledge Society? No.

Big Data for Development: From Information to Knowledge Societies? Unlike analog information, “digital information inherently leaves a trace that can be analyzed (in real-time or later on).” But the “crux of the ‘Big Data’ paradigm is actually not the increasingly large amount of data itself, but its analysis for intelligent decision-making (in this sense, the term ‘Big …

Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter – Issue 58 January 2013

Free Software Supporter Issue 58, January 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS RIP Aaron Swartz Interview with Matthieu Aubry of Piwik Popular self-publishing and book printing company, Lulu, drops DRM What can we ask of the USPTO? Where in the world is RMS? community contest GNU Press releases new edition of the Emacs manual! Don’t miss our …

Pierre Cloutier: Richard LE HIR – Is Canada Breaking Up? And NOT Because Quebec Wants It So?

Canada / Quebec 2013 Ready, not ready, independence is coming The process of disintegration of the federation is on the verge of rapid acceleration I say and repeat on all keys for three years here on Vigil, Canada is in trouble. You tell me that his situation is better or worse than many other countries, …

Worth a Look: Revista AAInteligencia

REVISTA AAINTELIGENCIA Proyecto Aurora Australis: Inteligencia de Emergencia para la Era de la Informacion Use Google Translate to Read in English AAINTELIGENCIA es la primera revista latinoamericana orientada a brindar contenidos de alto nivel académico, acerca de los Sistemas de Inteligencia, implementados en las cúpulas de decisión estatal y empresarial. Desde octubre de 2003 hasta …

Secrecy News: Army Manual on Inform & Influence — Still Retarded, But Small Signs of Progress

ARMY MANUAL HIGHLIGHTS ROLE OF “INFORM AND INFLUENCE ACTIVITIES” The use of information-related tools to support military operations and to help shape their outcome is discussed in a newly updated Army manual on what are now called “Inform and Influence Activities.” Inform and influence activities (or IIA) refers to “the integration of designated information-related capabilities …