On 6/28/14 12:03 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/19/open-source-revolution-conquer-one-percent-cia-spy
I'm surprised his work hasn't been discussed here before (or more likely
I just missed it):
/We are a smart people today, but a dumb nation. Our national
security and our national attractiveness as a site for international
investment which permits our citizens to prosper are both at risk.
We have no alternative but to completely redefine the role of
government to emphasize its responsibility for the nurturing of our
national information/ /commons, and to redefine national
intelligence so as to create a Virtual Intelligence Community in
which every citizen is a collector, producer, and consumer of
intelligence. //To do this, we must have a National Information
Strategy.
/Robert Steele - Creating a Smart Nation
<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2008/10/2008-creating-a-smart-nation-full-text-online-for-google-translate/>,//1996
Government Information Quarterly
The above was my first introduction to his work.
Robert David Steele <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_David_Steele>
is founder of The Earth Intelligence Network
<http://www.earth-intelligence.net/>. His Public Intelligence Blog
<http://www.phibetaiota.net/> comes off a little too
"conspiracy-theoretic for me but I can mostly read past that.
I'm guessing that at least a handful here have direct knowledge of and
interest related to his ideas. His ideas are radical by some measure
but in my opinion, not without motivation and reason.
In particular, I am interested in the possibilities of harnessing
open-source information for the masses in a whole new way which
fundamentally is the original job/role of Journalism and Social
Commentary. My professional interests are roughly in the field of
Collective Intelligence but my personal interest is in living in a
global humanity consisting operating with /pervasive, highly
enlightened, self-interest/.
- Steve
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