The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon by Beebe Shannon D.; Kaldor Mary H.;

Author:Beebe, Shannon D.; Kaldor, Mary H.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2010-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

Amnesty worked closely on the project with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which offered expertise on satellite imagery and other cutting-edge geospatial technologies. Other similar initiatives include the Rome-based INTERSOS project, which has developed a Web-based interactive system, integrating geographic-information-system software to monitor the path of displaced persons to refugee camps as well as the work of the AAAS.16

An excellent, high-tech, governmental human security-oriented initiative is the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS-NET), which tracks food insecurity.17 It was first developed by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1985. The purpose is to strengthen the ability of governments and regional organizations to manage risk of food insecurity by providing early warning and vulnerability information on emerging food security issues. It works in Africa, Central America, Haiti, Afghanistan, and the United States. Funded by USAID, it is implemented by a private firm, Chemonics International, and several U.S. government agencies, including the United States Geological Survey, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the USDA.

Where intelligence and intelligence activities of the twentieth century were designed to be compartmentalized to protect against the possibility of penetration by the enemy, the exact opposite is needed for the twenty-first century. These same activities should be transparent, open, and shared with trusted partners. Where twentieth-century intelligence looked at air, land, and ground forces, twenty-first-century intelligence will have to see forces of nature. To date, there’s not been much information found about mosquitoes carrying malaria or pending natural disasters that shouldn’t be shared among communities of interest.

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