Leveraging Social Media for Early Indications and Warnings of Instability and Unres
https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=314816&sessionid=1&key=B409DD6B9D1A52E31114027CD5059713&sourcepage=register Leveraging Social Media for Early Indications and Warnings of Instability and Unrest Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT / 16:00 GMT (Duration: 1 hour) The ever-increasing availability of Internet connectivity is redefining open-source intelligence analytics. Online social media is not only reflective of population opinions and dynamics, but may also provide public venues to actively influence others and garner support for organized movements. In fact, in some situations like the recent protests in the Middle East and North Africa, top social networking sites have been shown to report events and dissatisfaction with leadership prior to traditional news sources. On the one hand, the rapidity of information spread renders the Internet a valuable real-time source of intelligence on population behaviors and sentiment. On the other hand, this rapidity is precisely the challenge with effectively exploiting this data source. This presentation will discuss how Lockheed Martinbs software suite, called b Web Information Spread Data Operations Moduleb (WISDOM), is breaking new ground in online social media collection and analytics. WISDOMbs innovative algorithms are integrated with, and indeed govern, existing technologies (e.g., crawling, tagging, agents, visualizations, etc.) to provide near real-time monitoring and analytic exploitation of the Internet as a socio-cultural data source. With its suite of capabilities, WISDOMbs automated collection, processing, and analytic visualizations save the analyst time generally spent on collection so they may devote the majority of their effort toward analysis; and discover trends, sentiment shifts, and key influencers in online communities to alert the analyst to indications of unrest that may lead to instability events. Presenter: Mike Baylor Mike Baylor is the Human Terrain Campaign Manager for the Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business area. Primary responsibilities include Program Management, Leadership of Advanced Research & Development, Functional Management, and Business Development for the Human Terrain Campaign. Mike has over 11 years of system development, design, and integration of complex systems for national security purposes. Education: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, Fall 1999. Presenter: Tina Chau Tina Chau is an intelligence analyst for the Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business area. Primary responsibilities include open-source intelligence analysis, research and methodology development in adversary behaviors, and technical lead for the Web Information Spread Data Operations Module (WISDOM) program. Tina holds a Master of Arts in International Relations with a specialization in Security Studies from Boston University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and French from New York University. Moderator: Karl Sanchack Karl Sanchack is a Principle Engineer within the Security line of Lockheed Martinbs Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business area. He manages the CE&T Business Innovation Team under Dr. John Evans which includes both internal and external research & development programs such as: Pathfinders, Innovation Pathfinder Program, Shared Vision and Open Innovation. Prior to this cross-corporate senior management role, he was the program manager for the Human Terrain Pathfinder, which was based out of the companybs flagship laboratory called the Center for Innovation. He has over 20 years of technology and leadership positions in both aerospace and commercial contracting companies. Within the commercial field, Mr Sanchack has been a Director of Technology and Services at GlobalEnglish Corporation and Director of Technology at Alignmark (A Thomson Company), managing professional services and custom engineering operations. Mr. Sanchack received a Bachelors of Arts in Journalism from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Technology Management from the University of Phoenix. He is also a graduate of the Lockheed Martin Program Management Development Program (PMDP). Attendance is free. Brought to you through a collaboration between Lockheed Martin and the IEEE Computer Society. Webcast provided by:
Heard Rajiv Shah, president of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on NPR this morning say that as the financial infrastructure was lacking in Afghanistan, it was non-trivial to pay people. So they had a couple of pilot programmes where people were "paid on their mobile phones". What do you think this entails? The lack of infrastructure that makes Western style payment possible, would also make a mobile phone solution difficult (you have to use something accessible via your phone, in order to get afghanis in your hand in some local place). Mike
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Michael Nelson wrote:
Heard Rajiv Shah, president of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on NPR this morning say that as the financial infrastructure was lacking in Afghanistan, it was non-trivial to pay people. So they had a couple of pilot programmes where people were "paid on their mobile phones".
What do you think this entails? The lack of infrastructure that makes Western style payment possible, would also make a mobile phone solution difficult (you have to use something accessible via your phone, in order to get afghanis in your hand in some local place).
Some kind of hawala scheme? //Alif -- I hate Missouri. Land of the free, home of the perjuriously deranged.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:24:29PM -0700, Michael Nelson wrote:
Heard Rajiv Shah, president of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on NPR this morning say that as the financial infrastructure was lacking in Afghanistan, it was non-trivial to pay people. So they had a couple of pilot programmes where people were "paid on their mobile phones".
What do you think this entails? The lack of infrastructure that makes Western style payment possible, would also make a mobile phone solution difficult (you have to use something accessible via your phone, in order to get afghanis in your hand in some local place).
Places without infrastructure doesn't mean places without mobile access. The mobile phone is the de facto computer in most of Africa and Asia. Some poor villages have only one phone (with multiuser OS) they paid for. It's pretty obvious that the mobile phone will become a payment system shortly, also in the developed world. Notice that a mobile phone with NFC or accelerometer bumping or audio modem or even Bluetooth would allow local transactions, including Bitcoin clients. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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