Event: 18-22 November 2013 Nairobe Crisis Mappers
5th Annual INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE of CRISIS MAPPERS ICCM 2013 18-22 November 2013 Nairobi, Kenya AGENDA (public link, no login necessary)
Matt Asay: Is Facebook The World’s Largest Open Source Company?
Is Facebook The World’s Largest Open Source Company? Red Hat used to wear the open source crown. Then Google. But Facebook and other web giants now contribute the most to open source. Matt Asay ReadWrite, October 17, 2013 Quick question: which is the largest open source company on Earth? That’s easy, right? It’s clearly Red …
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Patrick Meier: MicroFilters for Digital Humanitarian Response
Developing MicroFilters for Digital Humanitarian Response Filtering—or the lack thereof—presented the single biggest challenge when we tested MicroMappers last week in response to the Pakistan Earthquake. As my colleague Clay Shirky notes, the challenge with “Big Data” is not information overload but rather filter failure. We need to make damned sure that we don’t experience filter failure again in …
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Patrick Meier: MicroMappers Launched for Pakistan Earthquake Response (Updated)
MicroMappers Launched for Pakistan Earthquake Response (Updated) Update: MicroMappers is now public! Anyone can join to help the efforts! MicroMappers was not due to launch until next month but my team and I at QCRI received a time-sensitive request by colleagues at the UN to carry out an early test of the platform given yesterday’s 7.7 …
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Neal Rauhauser: Steele on NATO, AIPAC Replaces US IC — Steele Comments
Some months ago I had the great pleasure of adding OSINT godfather Robert David Steele as a LinkedIn contact. We’ve progressed from that to occasional phone calls and regular emails, pointing out interesting technology and events to each other. NATO 4.0: Key Challenges AND Solutions was published with this short note, asking for broad consideration …
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2013 Robert Steele: It’s Time for Crisis Mappers to Spin Up Corruption Mappers 2.0 + Corruption RECAP
I share with Lawrence Lessig the conviction that corruption is the principal threat to humanity. I would add to that my own view that corruption is responsible for 50% of all investments being wasted, be they in agriculture, energy, health, or the military, as representative domains. I also believe that corruption will persist until individuals …
2013 Robert Steele Reflections on [Search:] non+traditional+threat 1.2
ROBERT STEELE: I have elected to answer this personally. It may well be the most fundamental question this web site has received in that any corruption in the answer to this question assures the failure of any strategy, policy, acquisition, or operation that is spawned from an inherently corrupt — a deliberately corrupt — refusal …
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