Future of Multinational Intelligence & Operations
I am just back from a phenomenal conference on UN Air Operations put together by Professor Walter Dorn and Major Bill March. The highlight of that event was Senator Romeo Dallaire, LtGen (Ret), author of Shake Hands with the Devil as well as the more recent They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children. Here …
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Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Paul Fernhout
Paul Fernhout has been helping his wife (Cynthia Kurtz) develop Rakontu, a free and open source software communications and sensemaking tool for small purpose-driven communities that focuses on exchanging stories. He has hopes to expand Rakontu eventually into a broader Public Intelligence platform including a semantic desktop, simulations, narrative methods, visualization tools, and structured arguments. …
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Event: 12-14 Sep Greece European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference EISIC 2011
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Phi Beta Iota: This is one of the very few legitimate international events focusing on Open Source Intelligence with integrity. Highly recommended. Intelligence & Security Informatics Including Open Source Intelligence Athens, Greece, September 12-14, 2011 http://www.eisic.org, http://www.eisic.eu Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society ——————— Call for Participants ——————— Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) …
Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Cynthia Kurtz
Cynthia Kurtz is an independent researcher, writer and software designer who consults in the field of organizational and community narrative for decision support, conflict resolution and collective sensemaking. Her free online book at workingwithstories.org helps people use narrative techniques to benefit their own communities and organizations. She is building open source software at rakontu.org to …
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Open Source Insights Into the Taliban
Insights into the Taliban….not available from US intelligence…. BOOK REVIEW TALIBAN: The Unknown Enemy By James Fergusson Da Capo, 432 pp., $27.50 By Chuck Leddy – Boston Globe Correspondent / June 1, 2011 Journalist James Fergusson has spent more than a decade covering the Taliban, from its beginnings in the 1990s as a militant Islamist …
US Government Lies Part II [one source, one day]
There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says By Spencer Ackerman WIRED, May 25, 2011 You may think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says it’s worse than you’ve heard. Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the surveillance law as early …
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