Berto Jongman: Kosovo – Crime without Punishment, Power without Responsibility

Crime without punishment, power without responsibility – Kosovo, international policy and the rule of law Unless the international community demonstrates it is serious abouthuman rights, restitution and disrupting organised crime and criminality, its current policy of stability in place of justice can only continue to fuel both injustice and instability. Learn more about the principles …

Chuck Spinney: USG Arrogant Ignorance on Syria

Perhaps the most enduring feature of US foreign policy is a self-righteous sense of divine mission blinds the Orientations of its self-referencing practitioners to the real world consequences of their Decisions, and Actions. Their missionary zeal makes their outlooks impervious to the corrective effects negative feedback from the real world. Put simply, with a few …

Beth Noveck: Demand a more open-source government

A lawyer by training and a techie by inclination, Beth Noveck works to build data transparency into government. How can our data strengthen our democracies? In her work, Beth Noveck explores what “opengov” really means–not just freeing data from databases, but creating meaningful ways for citizens to collaborate with their governments.

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Re-Boot

The two below references have finally been updated and the original PDFs are now online (they were lost when site moved from Sweden and previous oss.net shortcuts were lost). NEW:  2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic)  OLD:  http://www.oss.net/OSINT-S Introduction  OSINT and Intelligence Reform  – History  – Requirements  – Collection  – Processing  – Analysis  – Covert Action  …

Yoda: Education Finally Being Deeply Disrupted & Modernized by Internet

The 3 Biggest Ways Technology Is Disrupting Education Forever Digital education is today where digital music was in 2001. The digital music revolution started unintended when peer-to-peer file service “Napster” started by Sean Parker & Shawn Fanning in 1999 controversially morphed into a digital music sharing service. It became mainstream with the highly successful launches …