Reference: Commercial Intelligence Overview
Categories: Commercial Intelligence
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Nov 23
Worth a Look: SILOBREAKER Analytics 21
Mats Bjore, a pioneer in both military and commercial intelligence, continues to innovate. Below is Worth a Look.
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Aug 22
Search: OSINT software
Categories: Analysis,Augmented Reality,Budgets & Funding,Collaboration Zones,Collective Intelligence,Communities of Practice,Computer/online security,Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices,Cyberscams, malware, spam,Ethics,Geospatial,InfoOps (IO),International Aid,Key Players,Methods & Process,Policies,Searches,Strategy,Technologies,Threats,Tools,True Cost
The search term brings up appropriate results, but the fact of the search gives us an opportunity to provide comment.
1) Nothing now being used by governments, and certainly not iBase or Palantir, both aging technologies that do not scale and have too many fat-finger handicaps, fulfills the originial requirements documents crafted in the late 1980′s.
Worth a Look: 1989 All-Source Fusion Analytic Workstation–The Four Requirements Documents
2) The ONLY programs that have gotten anywhere close are COPERNICUS plus plus, and SILOBREAKER. However, both of these have been slow to recognize the urgency of integrating–fully integrating–capabilities that address each of the eighteen functionalities. Below is the list of softwares now in use by US Special Operations Command J-23 Open Source Intelligence Branch along with the STRONG ANGEL TOOZL and a couple of other things.
Memorandum: USSOCOM Software List and STRONG ANGEL TOOZL
See also:
Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]
Worth a Look: Deep Web Multilingual Federated Search
1988-2009 OSINT-M4IS2 TECHINT Chronology
Worth a Look: Planetary Skin Data Sharing Initiative
Who’s Who in Librarian Intelligence: Arno Reuser
Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Mats Bjore
Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Stephen E. Arnold
Journal: Dr. Dr. Dave Warner Shares…
Review: The Starfish and the Spider–The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Review: Innovation Happens Elsewhere–Open Source as Business Strategy
Journal: Google, the Cloud, Microsoft, & World Brain
Worth a Look: GeoChat (SMS Plotted on Map)
1998 Arnold (US) New Trends in Automated Intelligence Gathering Software
The global standard for multinational information-sharing and sense-making is in the process of being designed, funded, and distributed. If you think you have something relevant to that, generally only open source software will be considered, get in touch with any of the individuals above.
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May 14
Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]
Categories: Analysis,Budgets & Funding,Collaboration Zones,Communities of Practice,Ethics,InfoOps (IO),Key Players,Methods & Process,Mobile,Policies,Policy,Real Time,Reform,Searches,Strategy,Technologies,Threats,Tools
Paradise Found
The future of OSINT is M4IS2.
The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2).
The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb):
Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) the instant it is received at any level by any civilian or military element responsive to global OSINT grid. This includes all of the contextual agency and mission specific information from the civilian elements previously stove-piped or disgarded, not only within the US, but ultimately within all 90+ participating nations.
Rule 2: In return for Rule 1, the US IC agrees that the Department of State (and within DoD, Civil Affairs) is the proponent outside the wire, and the sharing of all OSIF originating outside the US IC is at the discretion of State/Civil Affairs without secret world caveat or constraint. OSIF collected by US IC elements is NOT included in this warrant.
Nov 25
Journal: Librarians and The Accessibility Paradox
Full Source Online
Fortunately, most librarians have gotten used to the fact that the Internet is a tremendous boon to researchers and that free information is a fantastic idea. Sure, we haven’t yet reallocated our organizational resources to recognize this fact—our staff time is much more likely to be devoted to acquiring and messing about with purchased information than in making good information from our archives, our labs, or the web more easily available. [Emphasis added.]
Barbara Fister
We need to separate our value—the way we curate information, champion its availability in the face of intolerance of unpopular ideas and economic disparity, and create conditions for learning how to find and use good information—from the amount of money it takes to acquire stuff on the not-so-open market. We need to be quite clear that good information is good information, no matter how it’s funded. And we need to find creative ways to partner with those who add value to information and find sustainable models for the editorial work that can make good academic work better.
Nov 19
Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Mats Bjore
Categories: Alpha A-D,Commercial Intelligence
Mats Bjore
Mats Bjore is unique in many ways. He is one of just two Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) pioneers recognized with Royal Awards for his accomplishment in creating the Swedish Military Long-Range Reconnaissance OSINT network. He has gone on to be a successful manager for knowledgement (McKinsey), and advisor to Factiva, and CEO and founder of two companies, INFOSHERE AB and SILOBREAKER AB, as well as a third company-software, Able-to-Act.
From 1992 onwards, he has been one of a dozen people nurturing OSINT, a hybrid discipline now established in over 90 countries around the world.
We credit him with coining the term “commercial intelligence” to provide for 360 degree intelligence that embraces “true cost” accounting as well as intangible valuations that “competitive intelligence” does not appreciate.
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Dec 10
Journal: Worth a Look–the Echo Chamber Project
Categories: Collaboration Zones,Communities of Practice,Historic Contributions,Methods & Process,Reform,Technologies
Kent Bye
Echo Chamber Project: Interviews at OSS ’06
Praise for this effort
Submitted by Robert David Steele (not verified) on Sat, 2006-03-11 18:48.
I have never, in 18 years of OSINT advocacy, seen a more professional and intelligent endeavor to understand and report on what we are trying to do. This is absolutely world-class, and my admiration is unbounded. This creative individual has a lifetime free pass to our conferences. His technical, legal, and people skills are of the highest order.
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Kent’s photo links to the ten video interviews he did at OSS ’06, the last conference before it was stolen and consequently destroyed by an individual that broke his promise (one of several) and is fortuitously no longer responsible for anything of significance. All of the interviews are recommended, but then Congressman Simmons, now running for Senator in place of Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticutt, is especially noteworthy. No one in government has, in the twenty one years we have been fighting this fight, gotten a better grip not just on the idea of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) as a separate discipline, but on OSINT as a means of revitalizing American education, improving decision-support to every Congressional jurisdiction (most get NOTHING from the secret intelligence world), and helping the President and the Cabinet Secretaries manage Whole of Govenrment Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Operational Campaigns.
Among those interviewed that we hold in very high esteem are Michael Andregg, Carolyn Stewart, Mats Bjore, Ralph Peters, Robert Young Pelton, Stephen E. Arnold, and Peter Morville. There is also an interview with Robert Steele, who is not tagged within this website.
Below is a direct link to Kent Bye and a collage of clips from each of the people he interviewed. We consider this the single best most brilliant piece of citizen journalism on the concept of OSINT.
Overview Video
Below are the currently available links for audio only for all those interviewed:
Michael Andregg on Secrecy and Insanity
Stephen E Arnold on Technology
Mats Bjore on Globalization
Peter Morville on Ambient Findability
Robert Young Pelton on Hearing all Sides
Ralph Peters on Wars of Blood and Faith
Rob Simmons on the Big Picture for America
Robert Steele on Washington Running on 2%
Carolyn Stewart on Information Operations
Below links directly to the Simmons interview, use the photograph link above to select any of the others. NOTE: the video portion appears to have been disabled for all of them, you get audio only right now, we are working on this with Kent, it is vastly better to see these individuals in full multi-media form.
Rob Simmons
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Jan 4
Military Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Categories: Military
Archives 1992-2006
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Jul 18
Commerce Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
Categories: Commerce
Archive 1992-2006
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Jul 18
2004 Bjore (SE) Software, Humanware and Intelligence: Distributed Data Capture Templates and Analytic Tools
Categories: Analysis,Collaboration Zones,Communities of Practice,Historic Contributions,Methods & Process,Technologies,Tools
Mats Bjore
PLATINUM LIFETIME AWARD, Mr. Mats Bjore, Sweden
There is no other person who has created a national open source intelligence capability, with recognition from the Royal War Academy for doing so; then gone on to rationalize McKinsey knowledge management in the Nordic region, then created the foremost international commercial intelligence practice in InfoSphere AB, and concluded with the creation of Silobreaker, a combination of sources and tools that takes the information industry to a new level. Mats Bjore is the ultimate Long Range Reconnaissance Philosopher-Warrior.
Below is the presentation made to OSS ’06.
Mats Bjore
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Dec 27
