Journal: Haiti–Ready for a Rapid-Response Open-Source-Intelligence-Driven Inter-Agency Multinational Multifunctional Stabilization & Reconstruction Mission…

AP: Injured Haitians plead for help after quake Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake hit the poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years crushed thousands of structures, from humble shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped. Destroyed …

Graphic: Whole of Government Intelligence

Somebody somewhere has to do this, and do it with over 90 nations, all NGOs, and global reach into all academic and private sector organizations desiring to share information and do multilateral sense-making. References: 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings 2009: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational] Search: Intelligence …

Worth a Look: Citizen Science

Citizen science is a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation. The use of citizen-science networks often allows scientists to accomplish research objectives more …

Search: QDR OSINT

Spectacular search and most welcome.  Below are two of the slides from the DoD OSINT Leadership Briefing.  The colorful slides are all in the DoD OSINT Staff Briefing. See also the following collections relevant to getting DoD OSINT up to flank speed for policy support, acquisition support, and of course operational support beginning with Afghanistan, …