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Mati Nissani: Strategic Lessons from the Rand Paul Fiasco

Strategic Lessons from the Rand Paul Fiasco “Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.”—Lenin  …by  Moti Nissani, Ph.D. Prof. Emeritus, Wayne State University Rand Paul Summary: For many years, the liberty movement’s aspirations and actions have been focused on the presidential candidacy of Congressman Ron Paul. In Early June, this strategy backfired, following …

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DefDog: Sanitize Office – Remove personal metadata

Sanitize Office: How to remove personal metadata Ms. Smith NetworkWorld, Thu, 05/31/12 Do you ever sanitize Microsoft Office products? Have you ever stopped to consider the potential privacy risk from personal metadata that is embedded in Microsoft Office products? Here’s how to remove it Yesterday Microsoft announced Office 365 for Government. Since “security and privacy …

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The Open Source Everything Manifesto Chapter 6 Whole-Systems Thinking Extract III

The Open Source Everything Manifesto Chapter 6 Whole-Systems Thinking Extract III Even before the digital information explosion, the rapid expansion of scientific, social scientific, and humanities knowledge led to the fragmentation of academic disciplines, and then increasing fragmentation as sub-disciplines developed.  Figure 14 depicts how little of the knowledge can be accessed via online search, …

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Dolphin: Stuxnet – Throwing Rocks When You Live in a Glass House!

Outlines the potential unintended consequences (blowback) resulting from the USG’s apparent covert action employing Stuxnet. Stuxnets are Not in the US National Interest: An Arsonist Calling for Better Fire Codes Jason Healey | June 01, 2012 The United States government has apparently struck a blow against the Iranian nuclear enrichment capability by using Stuxnet to …

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Patrick Meier: UN Report on Big Data for Development – Highlights

Big Data for Development: Challenges and Opportunities The UN Global Pulse report on Big Data for Development ought to be required reading for anyone interested in humanitarian applications of Big Data. The purpose of this post is not to summarize this excellent 50-page document but to relay the most important insights contained therein. In addition, I …

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Patrick Meier: Big Data Philathropy aka Big Data Commons

Big Data Philanthropy for Humanitarian Response My colleague Robert Kirkpatrick from Global Pulse has been actively promoting the concept of “data philanthropy” within the context of development. Data philanthropy involves companies sharing proprietary datasets for social good. I believe we urgently need big (social) data philanthropy for humanitarian response as well. Disaster-affected communities are increasingly the source …

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