Event: 1 Feb Deadline 2 May Presentation “Governing Intelligence” Stanford Journal of International Law

2014 Symposium Governing Intelligence Transnational Threats and the National Security State May 2, 2014 at Stanford Law School February 1, 2014 is Deadline for Abstract The goal of Governing Intelligence is to move beyond the rather narrow focus of today’s debate — largely about surveillance — to have a much broader conversation about the power …

Reference: HSBC South-South Special – What a Globalizing China Means for Latin America + China RECAP

Points to Consider: 01 PRC Rising in Caribbean, Central & South America 02 Banking, Mining, Power, Water… 03 PRC Non-Official Rising Employer and Tax Revenue Power 04 Not Addressed: Export of Chinese Males — Demographic Majority Inevitable Source Snap-Shot: South-South ties between China and LatAm are growing beyond the well-known trade flows. Chinese corporates are …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

9 Challenges Facing Journalism 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel ACTIVISM: Anti-Drone Movement BIG IDEAS: Bitcoin Economy BIG IDEAS: Digital Privacy Resolution from United Nations BIG IDEAS: Earth Is A Machine BIG IDEAS: Learning Through Interesting Imagery BIG IDEAS: Post-Human Future? BIG IDEAS: Vaclav Smil on Reality (Bill Gate’s Favorite Author) CYBER: App Generation CYBER: …

Event: 22-24 JAN 14 Nashville TN InfoWarCon 2014

Beyond Information Warfare “Mr. Schwartau, why would the bad guys ever want to use the internet…?” (Congressman Glickman during Congressional Testimony, June 1991) It was obvious. To some of us. Now, it is almost impossible to quantify how far behind we really are. Information Warfare (some relegated the term as politically incorrect) or CyberWar or …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Age of Ambient Everything Anthropomorphic Machine – IBM’s Watson Cybersecurity Ecosystem Cybersecurity via the UN? Cyberwar Aspects Disarmament in Africa GCHQ Monitoring Hotel Reservations Global Development and Local Peacebuilding Guantanamo Protest Song (Vimeo) NSA Cost-Benefit Ratio on Surveillance: NEGATIVE NSA Overstated Threat from Snowden Leaks