Design for the Other 90% Exhibit + “Micro-Giving” Global Needs Index to Connect Rich to Poor/Fullfill Global-to-Local Requests

“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” —Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises Exhibition on view National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC through September 6, …

Event: 24-26, Oct 2010, Saratoga Springs, New York State Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Conference

The NYS GIS conference has a long standing tradition of providing attendees with an opportunity to meet fellow New Yorkers active in the GIS field, exchange information and real experience, and seek solutions to your geographic data management needs. Comment: The following is not on the agenda of this conference but would be good to …

Journal: William Polk on Afghanistan Non-Strategy Plus Consolidated Journal, Review, and Reference Links for Afghanistan

William R. Polk recently sent out the attached letter to his distribution list.  It is a very comprehensive and I believe important review of Afghanistan.  I urge you to take the time to read it.  Appended to the end are a series of notes he used in the construction of his letter.   Polk know …

Search: UN intelligence peace intelligence

UN Intelligence Books use: Truth & Reconciliation (52) United Nations & NGOs (38) Books: INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability 2008 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace Review: Corruption and Anti-Corruption–An Applied Philosophical Approach Review: A More Secure World–Our Shared Responsibility–Report of the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change …

Journal: Brazil, Turkey, Iran Blow Off USA–Righteously

  This important essay by Ray McGovern makes a compelling case for the recommendation he makes last two paragraphs which are repeated in italics below: “As a former CIA analyst, I hope that Obama would have the presence of mind to order a fast-track special National Intelligence Estimate on the implications of the Iran-Brazil-Turkey agreement …

Journal: Robert Baer on Transparency of Assassinations

A Perfectly Framed Assassination Stepped-up surveillance technology may be tipping the scales in the cat-and-mouse game between spies and their targets. Robert Baer on the current state of spycraft. EXTRACT: I can only speculate about where exactly the hit went wrong. But I would guess the assassins failed to account for the marked advance in …