Worth a Look: InSTEDD Emergency Support to Emergencies, Diseases, and Disasters

Our Mission InSTEDD’s mission is to harness the power of technology to improve collaboration for global health and humanitarian action. We are an innovation lab for tools designed to strengthen networks, build community resilience and improve early detection and response to major health-related events and natural or human-caused disasters. We grapple daily with the challenges of …

Journal: America’s Debt to–and Incapacitation of–Haiti

How easily we forget the balance books of history.   Below are two pieces, one from the colonial era written in 2006, the other from the recent “neo-colonia” era in which the author examines the specifics of the Clinton Administration’s policies toward Haiti.  Chuck America’s Historic Debt to Haiti By Robert Parry  February 10, 2006 As …

Journal: Haiti Multinational Decision-Support Challenge

HAITI: The 2010 Earthquake This initiative is a joint effort between Ushahidi, UN OCHA/Colombia and the International Network of Crisis Mappers (CM*Net). OCHA/Colombia recently deployed Ushahidi for an earthquake response excercise so we’re very grateful for their invaluable contribution to this Haiti deployment. We’re completing the customization of the platform as fast as we can. …

Journal: Second Amendment versus “Police Pirvacy”

Police fight cellphone recordings: Witnesses taking audio of officers arrested, charged with illegal surveillance Crooked cops in Boston arresting citizens for recording misconduct with cellphones Phi Beta Iota: The police will not only lose this one, we anticipate that one day the Second Amendment will apply to radar detectors and other forms of defense against …

Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Dr. Col Max Manwaring, US Army Strategic Studies Institute

Dr. Max G. Manwaring is a Professor of Military Strategy in the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the U.S. Army War College (USAWC). He has held the General Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research at the USAWC, and is a retired U.S. Army colonel. He has served in various civilian and military positions, including the U.S. …