[Johnny]

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+ The Rise of Open Source Intelligence +

Can we exit the Culture of Fear and enter a newer society?
An Open Source Society consisting of a series of Citizen Intelligence Networks.
Visionary Cells well equipped with the knowledge and tools to govern
their bodies and all bodies of knowledge to govern the global body,
empowering the majority beyond our wildest dreams.

On January 17-20 a conference described as "James Bond morphing into
Hackers who morph into the Peace Corps who morph into moral
capitalists raising four billion from poverty through the power of
information and open source intelligence" will host 60 exhibits, 20
top speakers, and 400-600 international "players" at the Sheraton
Premiere in Tyson's Corner Virginia in the Washington D.C. area.

Visit www.oss.net/IOP, Fax 703.266.6391, Call 703.266.6390

Speakers –
http://www.oss.net/extra/page/?actio...ule_instance=4

Schedule –
http://www.oss.net/extra/page/?actio...ule_instance=4

- War & Peace - Wealth & Democracy - Open Source Intelligence -
- Peace Keeping Intelligence - Open Source Democracy -
- Citizens' Intelligence Network -
OSS.NET


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IOP '06
Information Operations, Open Source Intelligence,
and Peacekeeping Intelligence

Information Operations (IO) represents the new semantics of war &
peace, wealth & democracy. Information Peacekeeping (IPK) is the
converse of Information Warfare (IW). America is soon to have in
effect a range of Joint Intelligence Operations Centers or Commands
(JIOC) with embedded Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) feeds in all
languages on all topics, and the requisite man-machine Foreign
Language (FL) and Advanced Analytics (AA) able to make sense of all
information, in all languages, all the time.

Modern IO consists of Strategic Communications (the message), Open
Source Intelligence (the shareable reality), and JIOCS with FL and AA
(the technologies).

Modern IO is the new American "way of war" and offers enormous
potential in ten "IO-heavy" mission areas:

· Strategic Communication & Public Diplomacy
· Peacekeeping Intelligence & Information Peacekeeping
· Early Warning & Stabilization-Reconstruction Operations
· Homeland Defense & Emergency Responder Civil Support
· National Education & National Research for National Wealth

Join Congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT-02), Alvin & Heidi Toffler, and
many other world-class speakers including Canadian, Croatian, Dutch,
English, South African, and Swedish experts on the emerging
intersection of open source software, open spectrum, open source
information, open access copyright, and open societies.

All participants in the three day event will receive the new book on
IO, as well as new books on Commercial Intelligence and on
Peacekeeping Intelligence. One may elect to participate in only one
day, and/or the training day on Friday.

All participants receive three weeks of free access to Silobreaker
analytic link and visualization tools, and thousands of international
sources.