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I am the way of the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.  John 14:6

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.  George Orwell

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.  Mark Twain

The only people mad at you for speaking the truth are those living a lie.  Keep speaking it.  Gaskina Jr.

The way of truth is along the path of intellectual sincerity.  Henry Smith Pritchett

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NEW:  2013-06-01  2013 Robert Steele: Reflections on the Protection of Civilians – US Army List with Corrected Responsibilities

NEW: 2013–5-15  2013 Robert Steele — Alternative Command & Control and Four Transformation Forcing Concepts

NEW: 2013-04-15 2013 Intelligence Future — The Third Era of Local to Global Intelligence Robert Steele Overview & Workshop 2.7

NEW:  2013-04-04  2013 Robert Steele Foreword to NATO Book on Public Intelligence for Public Health

NEW:  2013-03-31 NATO OSINT to OSE/M4IS2 Round-Up

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Immediate Focus:  Achieving Local to Global Intelligence with Integrity

NATO OSINT to OSE/M4IS2 Round-Up [come together with EU Emergency Response Centre, others]

PERSONAL FOR THE SECRETARY GENERAL

PERSONAL FOR AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE

Related Point Papers

Doc (2):  Open Source Agency Synopsis 2012

Doc (2):  UN World Brain Institute and Global Game 2.2

Doc (1):  Virgin Truth 2.6

Background Articles

Doc (29):  2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.2 20 Dec 2012

Doc (21):  Steele The Craft of Intelligence 3.3

Miscellaneous:

Slide (1):  Big Picture

Slide (1):  UN Cloud 3.1

Slide (1):  Department-of-State-Et-Al-Real-Estate-Printable-Single-Slide-2.0

Doc (1):  2013 Public Governance Abstract

Doc (1):  Open Source Everything 500 words 1.4

Unsuccessful Commercial Outreach

As BGen James Cox, Land Forces Canada (Ret), the one flag officer that “got it” while serving at NATO N-2A recently put it, no one, including NATO, has gotten past OSIF (I would say that InfoSphere is alone as an exception to that judgment that I share). Below is a graphic that the Microsoft CTO (not Ozzie) blew off, and the outreach one-pager to Sir Richard Brandon that was finally delivered by hand after his corporate development people twice refused to consider it.

2012 Steele for Branson: The Virgin Truth 2.6

See Also:

BGen James Cox, CA (Ret) On the Record on Open Source Information versus Open Source Intelligence versus Secret Intelligence

Open Source Everything — The List and the Book

Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]

SmartPlanet: The $10 Cell Phone Has Arrived….Plus Open Cell Meta-RECAP

Single Best Overview Briefing, Chapter & White Paper

2012 Integrity, Reflexivity, & Open Everything

2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2.0

2008 The Substance of Governance

Unrealized Possibilities

2011 Open Source Agency: Executive Access Point

2007: Earth Intelligence Network Concept

2002: New Rules for the New Craft of Intelligence

Work in Progress: 2013 Intelligence with Integrity: Enabling Hybrid Governance with Open-Source Decision-Support

Chapter 1: Public Governance & Public Intelligence — Funded by Michael Kearns of Colorado

Published/Final

2012 PREPRINT: The Craft of Intelligence

2012 PREPRINT Foreword to Book on Public Intelligence for Public Health

2012 Reality Sandwich: The Open Source Everything Manifesto

2012 THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust

2011 INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity & Sustainability

Blog Reflections Series

2013 Robert Steele Reflections on Insanity & Integrity + Reflections RECAP

2013 Robert Steele: Reflections on the Protection of Civilians – US Army List with Corrected Responsibilities

2013 Robert Steele — Alternative Command & Control and Four Transformation Forcing Concepts

2013 Robert Steele: Reflections on the Inability of Washington to Think

2013 Robert Steele: Reflections on Lincoln, Principle, Compromise, Autonomous Internet & Citizen Intelligence / Counterintelligence 2.0 with Meta-RECAP

2013 Robert Steele: Reflections on the Next Four Years — Eradicate “Distortions,” Get the Truth on the Table, and Focus on Free Energy

2013 Robert Steele: Reflections on Reform 2.2 Numbers for 30% DoD Cut over 2-4 Years

2012 Robert Steele: Reflections on Healing the Americas

2012 Robert Steele: Reflections on the US Military — Redirection Essential — and a Prerequisite to Creating a 450-Ship Navy, a Long-Haul Air Force, and an Air-Liftable Army

2012 Robert Steele: The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Concepts & Doctrine? Implications for Human & Open Source Intelligence 2.0

2012 Robert Steele: The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Concepts & Doctrine? Implications for Human & Open Source Intelligence

2012 Robert Steele: Practical Reflections on UN Intelligence + References & Reviews + UN RECAP Updated

2012 Robert Steele: Reflections on United Nations Intelligence & Counterintelligence

2012 Robert Steele: Addressing the Seven Sins of Foreign Policy — Why Defense, Not State, Is the Linch Pin for Global Engagement

2012 Robert Steele: Reflections on Inspectors General

2012 Robert Steele: Reflections on Data as the New Oil BUT No One Is Serious About Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, Machine or Man-Machine Translation, or M4IS2

2011 Robert Steele: Reflections on Revolution, Information & Civil Affairs

2010 Robert Steele: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP

2009 Robert Steele: Politics & Intelligence–Partners Only When Integrity is Central to Both

2006 Robert Steele: Reinventing Intelligence

2004 Robert Steele:  Reinventing Intelligence – From Truth, Power

Enduring Aggregations / Pro-Military Thinking

2012 U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century: 450-Ship Navy, <24 Hours to Anywhere, Peace from the Sea — Full Text Online

2012 Itemization of Information Pathologies

2011 Peace from Above: Future of Intelligence & Air Power

2011 National Intelligence and National Defense

2011 Cyber-Command or IO 21 + IO Roots

Recent International Presentations (in Spanish and English)

2013 Robert Steele on Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency — and Integrity; Dicho Sobre la Curacion de las Américas con una Agencia de Todo Abierto – y la Integridad

2011: Inteligencia Empresarial y Estrategia Competitiva en Mercados Internacional – Contexto y Desafio [Commercial Intelligence and Competitive Strategy in International Markets - Context and Challenge]

2010 M4IS2 Presentacion por Sur America (ANEPE Chile) — 2010 M4IS2 Briefing for South America

US Intelligence Reform in 3 Articles & One Graphic

2010 Human Intelligence: All Humans, All Minds, All the Time

2010 Fixing the White House & National Intelligence

2009  Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else

Graphic: Smart Safe Nation via Intelligence with Integrity in Four Quadrants – USA Fails

See Also:

 M4IS2 / OSE

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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Robert David STEELE Vivas

Email: robert.david.steele.vivas [at] gmail [dot] com

The Frog

Graphic: 360 Degree View of the Frog

Reference: Frog 6 Guidance 2010-2020

SHORT URL TO THIS PAGE: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele

Updated 1 June 2012.

WARNING:  The “free download” is a Chinese virus, generally identified across various websites with the preface (hotpdf).  Under the terms of the contact this book is NOT free online as with all of Robert Steele’s other books and publications.

Extracts, Reviews, 33 Slides in Color, Amazon Rankings: THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO – Transparency, Truth, & Trust . . . the meme, the mind-set, and the method

Back Cover:  What the world lacks right now–especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust–is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence in the sense of decision-support: knowing what one needs to know in order to make honest decisions for the good of all, rather than corrupt decisions for the good of the few. “The Open-Source Everything Manifesto “is a distillation of author, strategist, analyst, and reformer Robert David Steele life’s work: the transition from top-down secret command and control to a world of bottom-up, consensual, collective decision-making as a means to solve the major crises facing our world today. The book is intended to be a catalyst for citizen dialog and deliberation, and for inspiring the continued evolution of a nation in which all citizens realize our shared aspiration of direct democracy–informed participatory democracy. Open-Source Everything is a cultural and philosophical concept that is essential to creating a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for one hundred percent of humanity. The future of intelligence is not secret, not federal, and not expensive. It is about transparency, truth, and trust among our local to global collective. Only “open” is scalable. As we strive to recover from the closed world corruption and secrecy that has enabled massive fraud within governments, banks, corporations, and even non-profits and universities, this timely book is a manifesto for liberation–not just open technology, but open “everything.”

Book Page at Amazon

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Book Page at North Atlantic Books (Publisher)

Book Page at Powell’s Books

Book Page at Random House

Book Page at Super Book Depot

Duck Duck Go “Open Source Everything”

THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO Slides for Figures 3 Nov 2011

Final table of Contents Below the Line

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Dear friends,

I have worked for several months to develop the ideas in this article and to articulate them in an accessible way.  They are fundamental understandings underlying the co-intelligence vision of a wiser democracy.

If the ideas intrigue you, you can find a longer version with more detailed guidelines and references online.  I wrote the abstract below to make it easier for you to see the whole pattern at once.  I hope you find both versions interesting and useful.

Coheartedly,
Tom

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GUIDELINES FOR MAKING WISER DECISIONS ON PUBLIC ISSUES

by Tom Atlee

As a civilization we have tremendous collective power, but we don’t always use it wisely.  We can make good decisions, but we face messy, entangled, rapidly growing problems with complex, debatable causes.  Efforts to solve one problem often generate new ones.  We need more than problem-solving smarts here.  We need wisdom.

A good definition for wisdom here is

the capacity to take into account
what needs to be taken into account
to produce long term, inclusive benefits.

To the extent we fail to take something important into account, it will come back to haunt us.  But often we only realize we overlooked something long after our decision has been implemented.  Certain practices – because they lead us to include more of what’s important – can help us meet this challenge.  Here are eight complementary ways to do this.  The more of them we do, and the better we do them, the wiser our collective decisions will be.
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References to an Open Source Agency (OSA)

General Comment:  as presented to non-governmental groups including Amazon, Gnomedex Bloggers, Hackers on Planet Earth, etcetera, the Open Source Agency (OSA) would be the proponent for everything open beginning with the four central opens necessary for Open Government: Open Source Software, Open Spectrum, Open Data Access, and Open Source Intelligence.  Within the Department of State, an Office for Information-Sharing Treaties and Agreements would be central to the endeavor, and could reasonably also do outreach to all eight tribes across the USA (academic, civil society, commerce, government at all levels, law enforcement, media, military, and non-governments/non-profit).

2002 TIME Magazine The New Craft of Intelligence

12 July 2004 National Intelligence Reform Recommendations (Kevin Scheid, National Commission on the Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States)

28 Jul 2004  The magical idea of an OSA – Open Source Agency

28 Jul 2004  An Open Source Intelligence Agency?  Military.com

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This book remains the single definitive reference on the Smart Nation Act as developed by Robert Steele in support of Congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT-02).   As pointed out in Hamilton Bean’s recently published book,  No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of US Intelligence the Open Source Agency (OSA) has become the subject of competing visions–on one side, those who favor accountability, effectiveness, transparency, and respect for the public…..on the other, those who favor corruption, profitable waste, secrecy, and the exclusion of the public.

The simplified public articles are three:  1995 GIQ 13/2 Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information; 2002 TIME Magazine The New Craft of Intelligence and 2006 Forbes Blank Slate On Intelligence.

The back-up book, the one intended to help the Department of Defense transform itself, INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time has since been supplemented by two briefings, 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings.

Most recently, INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability provides the strategic, operational, tactical, and technical contexts for leveraging both Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2) in order to create a prosperous world at peace–and at one third the cost of what the USA spends on war today.

This book had two pre-cursors, 2002 THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political and 2010 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace.

That book has since been supplemented by a chapter, 2010 The Ultimate Hack Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth, in the just-published book, Counterterrorism and Open Source Intelligence; and by two articles and a monograph from the U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute, all three found at 2010: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Updated.

If an OSA is created–it can only be a success under diplomatic auspices as OMB has twice agreed (provided the Secretary of State asks for it as a sister agency to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), it could–it should–host the Multinational Decision Support Centre (MDSC) as proposed to DoD and implicitly called for in several Defense Science Board (DSB) reports.  The MDSC  could be located in Tampa, Florida, as the Coalition Coordination Centre has been, but staffed by intelligence professionals instead of logistics professionals.

Put most simply, an OSA restores intelligence and integrity to the entirety of the US Government, and changes everything about how we do policy, acquisitions, and operations.  It restores the Republic.

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The Open Source Agency (OSA) was first proposed by Robert Steele to the Open Source Council in 1992, as an Open Source  Center outside the wire.  The rationale was that best in class sources would change constantly, and access was needed to all information in all languages all the time.  CIA and MITRE conspired to substitute instead the Open Source Information System (OSIS), a still-anemic unproductive system with limited sources and no analytic tool-kit worthy of the name.

On this history, see:

Journal: LEXIS-NEXIS OSINT Kiss to CIA/OSC

History of Opposition (15)

Despite the history of opposition, and the fact that the CIA’s Open Source Center (OSC) today only deals with eleven countries on a more or less regular basis, while going through the motions with others, a robust multinational network has been developed over time that includes at least 90 countries, some of which have made gains in harnessing the eight tribes of intelligence, some not.  The Nordics, and especially Sweden, have been especially effective, at furthering the concept of M4IS2 (multinational, multiagency, multidisciplinary, multidomain information-sharing and sense-making).

On this progress, see:

Historic Contributions (246)

Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]

There remains a need for an Open Source Agency (OSA) that is under diplomatic auspices as suggested by Dr. Joe Markowitz and endorsed by Congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT-02) and Robert Steele, both writing and speaking on this over the years.  Below are some references that bear directly on the need for and the means by which an OSA might be created.

2010: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Updated

2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability

Legislation: Smart Nation-Safe Nation Act of 2009

Memoranda: OSS CEO to DNI One-Pager

Memorandum: $2 Billion Obligation Plan Centered on Defense, for a New Open Source Agency

Memoranda: Creating a New Agency with a New Mission, New Methods, and a New Mind Set

Memoranda: Policy-Budget Outreach Tool

2006 INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time

2006 THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest

2006 Forbes Blank Slate On Intelligence

2002 THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political

1995 GIQ 13/2 Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information

1995 National Information Strategy 101 Presentation to CENDI/COSPO*

Public intelligence in the public interest is the sole basis for restoring the Republic, legitimate polices, and a prosperous world at peace.

All entries listed and linked below the line.

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