Hi friends

Here is hoping that things are settling down on the positive side for michel.  Robert steele has a long and open record more recently of advocating the internet as a global source of OPEN intelligence.  His outspokenness has caused official washington treat him like the "enemy' hence using his brain to put bread on his table has been increasingly difficult.  His open source manifesto... a paperback book is well worth a look as are the ideas here in.  He says on  august 8th he is disappearing for 2 years.  I have no idea of the details.... i hope to europe or to chaing mai <only half joking>.

anyone interested in these ideas not in touch with him should get in touch.



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From: Robert Steele <robert.david.steele.vivas@gmail.com>
Date: August 3, 2013 2:57:36 PM EDT
To: cover@isoc.org
Cc: Discussion list for GigaNet Members <GIGANET-MEMBERS@listserv.syr.edu>, Gordon Cook <cook@cookreport.com>
Subject: can I help with the multi-stakeholder project?

I am a member of the GIGANET global network, and have reposted your press release to Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog.

Internet Society: Questionnaire on Multistakeholder Participation in Internet Governance + Open Letter to the Internet Society

I have three areas where I am concerned about a possible lack of focus by the Internet Society:

01  Resilience of the Internet in the face of government and corporate corruption and repression.  I devised the
Autonomous Internet Roadmap that you can find at P2P Foundation's wiki.  What NSA has been doing with
PRISM, and other countries and corporations betraying the public trust, is absolutely outrageous and should be
addressed by a self-healing network.

02  Focus on values and full participation by all eight tribes of intelligence: academic, civil society including
labor and religion, commerce with particular focus on small and smallest business, government with particular
focus on local and hybrid governance, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non-profit -- and of
course all individuals as themselves and as the amorphous public capable of collective intelligence.

03  Focus on sense-making.  I had this discussion with Vint Cerf over sushi before he went over to the dark side
with Google.  Nothing available on the Internet now can offer the public a means of integrated requirements
definition, collection management, machine-speed translation and multi-media processing, multi-cultural
holistic and true cost economic analytics, and educationally helpful rapid visualization of complex topics to
inspire public hybrid governance.

I am in Oakton, VA until 8 August at which time I begin a two year period away from the area.  I would be
delighted to come in for a round-table in the next few days if there were any interest.  Otherwise I will be
easily available via the Internet and Skype.  The questionnaire you are about to launch could be one of the
most important initiatives every undertaken by the Internet Society.  I am also relatively certain it does not
address the above three issues, and I would like very much to help you do that.

I am posting this for the record as an open letter at Phi Beta Iota, and offering it to Gordon Cook for
republication in the Cook Report should he so wish.  I attach a few graphics to make some of my points,
this is an area that the Earth Intelligence Network (501c3) has been focusing on for six years, standing
on the shoulders of many others going back to Quincy Wright in 1957 and forward to Buckminster Fuller
and Russell Ackoff, among many others.  My short profile is attached.  Learn more at http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012 (self)
and http://tinyurl.com/Steele21 (index)

Robert David STEELE Vivas
CEO (pro bono)
Earth Intelligence Network
Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog

Cell (until midnight on 7 August) 571.455.2883