Global challenges Global challenges: user guide
All pages in TheTransitioner that have 'Global Challenge' in their title are part of an organized structure whose aim is to cover global challenges in a collective intelligence way through our collaborative spage TheTransitioner.

The initial content has been provided by OSS.Net, Inc., a Virginia for-profit corporation, as a contribution to the Earth Intelligence Network, a Virginia non-profit that has applied for 501c3 (tax exempt) status. It is our hope that others will adopt this web site and these wikis to make their own intellectual contributions. No one owns this--it is a gift intended to inspire organized reciprocal altruism.

As soon as possible, we hope to create a virtual EarthBudget totalling US$1 trillion a year. Such a budget, created by experts and validated by international and non-governmental organizations, would be presented to the many charitable foundations known for their interest in addressing the ten High-Level Threats to Humanity. There are three sources of funding totalling $3 trillion a year that we hope to influence with the EarthBudget:

- Charitable Foundations giving $1 trillion a year to threat reduction and policy harmonization programs

- Corporations able to understand that going green and practicing fair trade is profitable and sustainable.

- Publics who can, empowered with the EarthBudget, demand that governments rediecet funds from war to peace.


Intention


  1. Identify the top web sites for each of 30 factors (ten threats, twelve policies, eight challengers) and then fund Federated Search via Deep Web Technologiesexternal link.
  2. Identify the top published authors on the same. At the present moment we can only afford to do the ten threats. We will ask the published authors to help identify and recruit the unpublished field experts.
  3. At Amazon Base Page within Earth Intelligence Networkexternal link are lists of books for each topical area has been created. For two years we have been encouragbing Amazon to inform all its authors and all its reviewers and readers that there are wikis pages for discussion in Talk page and documentation in the main page, on these 30 topics. This may happen soon, with the result that we will have created a Global Intelligence Council for every topic, and localized reader Wisdom Councils in every district.
  4. Continuous RSS Feedsexternal link are available on all 30 topics.
  5. We also create weekly reports (sample attached) and forecasts for each topic (some excellent, some need re-doing), access them at this Summary Pageexternal link
  6. The important thing is to note that the ten threats all have costs and consequences that interact with one another; the twelve policies have costs and benefits--or consequences that also interact with one another; finally, nothing the European Union or the United States of America does, will matter, unless we can engage and persuade each of the eight challengers to adopt sustainable practices and redirect funds from waging war to waging peace.
  7. Ultimately, we hope to create the Earth Intelligence Networkexternal link, inclusive of an EarthGame in which everyone plays themselves, and we all have access to all information in all languages all the time.

Orientation Letters, Lists, Guides, Movies and Briefings


Letter of Invitation Sent to Top Academic Authors, An Open Letter to All Othersexternal link

This is an open letter. Anyone who wishes to contribute to the Global Challenges pages is invited to do so.

Consolidated Table of Top Academic Authors Sorted by Threat & Rankexternal link

There are limitations to DIALOG and the Social Science Citation Index. They are especially deficient on foreign language authors, but this is a good starting point. We urge anyone interested in any of the ten threats, twelve policies, and eight demographic challengers to share the above open letter widely.

Consolidated Table of Top Academic Authors on the Ten High-Level Threats Sorted by Surnameexternal link

This alphabetic rendition of the table allows invited authors to quickly check which page they are on (three are top authors in two different areas), and others to quickly see if someone is NOT on the list, in which case we hope the above open letter will be shared with those who should be but are not listed.

We especially hope that published authors will share the letter with unpublished practitioners who have a great deal to offer all of us.

Decision Support Training, One Page of Active Linksexternal link

If you simply review the varied links under Practice, and adopt SILOBREAKER at you primary source & tool set, you will in most cases be ten times better off than you are now.

Decision Support Training, Guide to 20,000 pagesexternal link

This table is sortable and searchable. For training, see all the times that have that keyword in the keyword column. OSINT 101 is also a searchable term. These 20,000 pages include the content from all Proceedings, over 20 years of contributions from close to 750 distinguished international speakers, in turn training 7,500 international officers who have gone on to lead 25,000 pioneers

Advanced Self-Studyexternal link

By using the Portal Pages for Collective Intelligence, Information Sharing, and the retired Open Source Intelligence portal page (click on NewsSorter to see other headlines), anyone can study links to useful sources & methods in each portal category.

Earth Intelligence Networkexternal link

This is the homepage for the non-profit organization that seeks to create an EarthGame and EarthBudget with which to constructively engage the ten destabilizing threats with twelve harmonized and fully funded policies. This must be done in time to help the eight major demographic players avoid the mistakes of America and Europe.

Compressed Movie Steele at Hackers on Failure of 20th Century Intelligenceexternal link

Publics need to understand that what their governments are spending on secret sources & methods could be much better spent on open sources & methods. We salute the People's Republic of China for having the leadership intelligence to place a commercial intelligence expert in charge of their secret intelligence capabilities. He will undoubtedly begin redirecting funds toward open source intelligence that can be shared broadly within the Chinese business & trade communities, and China's international competitiveness will inevitably be strengthened.

Compressed Movie Steele at Hackers on Global Challengesexternal link

This is a fast overview of where we have failed and where we need to go in the aftermath of 9-11.

Compressed Movie Steele at Amazon on World Brainexternal link

This shows 66 minutes of interaction with the Amazon Developers Conference, a standing-room only presentation that drew close to 300 people (IBM and Microsoft drew 100-150, most presentations 50-75].

Briefing Slides and Notes for Amazon World Brainexternal link

Slides used in above movie of briefing to Amazon developers' conference on how Amazon could and should be the hub of the World Brain.

Document on Paradigms of Failureexternal link

Brief observations on how all of our institutions have collapsed. Implies need for a bottom-up collective self-governance revolution.

Document Outline of Multinational Information Sharing Legislationexternal link

If we can all get organized, there is plenty of money to create the needed public intelligence to drive public policy toward eradicating the ten threats through proper and harmonized funding of the twelve policies. One reason the USA should allocate this money is because nothing we do ourselves will matter--we must present the eight demographic challengers with a compelling EarthGame that shows them how to create infinite wealth while waging peace.

Briefing Slides and Notes for Gnomedex on "Open Everything"external link

Briefing to Gnomedex in Seattle (bloggers) on how the "Open" meme across the board is essential to our achieving infinite wealth and a sustainable peace at every level from neighborhood to nation.

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