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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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Review: The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust

Robert David Steele 5.0 out of 5 stars End Result of Quarter Century Walk-About,June 5, 2012 Updated 27 June: Why on earth is this book in top 100 for Espionage? I can only speculate that because I am a former spy, trained over 7,500 intelligence professionals, and have been an arch critic of secret intelligence …

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The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract III

On Sale from 5 June 2012 Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract III On the next few pages I list a wide range of “opens” within each of the layers illustrated in the Open-Source Pyramid (Figure 1), strictly to illuminate the wide-ranging, near-universal nature of this meme. This is not a complete list! The order below …

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Mini-Me: Obama Moves To Crush Poland After Global Genetic Disaster Revealed

Huh? Obama Moves To Crush Poland After Global Genetic Disaster Revealed By: Sorcha Faal A Ministry of Foreign Affairs report circulating in the Kremlin today states that United States President Obama has undertaken a campaign to “crush” the nation of Poland after its government this past week officially banned the planting of Monsanto’s MON810, a …

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The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract I

Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract I When we allowed for the “taking” of Earth resources for private profit, without regard to the true cost of the taking to the ninety-nine percent as well as future generations, we broke the Whole Earth System, literally.  We began corrupting the smooth feedback loops and ecologies that had been …

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Mini-Me: Horne and Fetzer on The Two NPIC Zapruder Film Events: Analysis and Implications

Huh? The Two NPIC Zapruder Film Events: Analysis and Implications by Douglas Horne (with Jim Fetzer) The authenticity of the Zapruder film and of the other home movies purportedly taken of the assassination in Dealey Plaza has been hotly contested since I (Jim Fetzer) first organized and moderated the first Zapruder Film Symposium during the …

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Howard Rheingold: Jumpstarting the School of Knowledge

“The School of Data is led by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). The School will provide online training for data ‘wrangling’ skills – the ability to find, retrieve, clean, manipulate, analyze, and represent different types of data.” The School of Data is a collaborative and community-orientated project, and we …

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