Filming Interviews at Open Source Intelligence Conference

I will be attending a conference next week put on by Robert David Steele's Open Source Solutions called Information Operations, Open Source Intelligence, & Peacekeeping Intelligence.

There will be an interesting mix of government intelligence professionals, corporate competitive intelligence professionals, knowledge management experts and embassy representatives from around the world.

Steele has granted me permission to film interviews with various speakers throughout the conference, and I will be particularly interested in capturing insights that professional intelligence analysts can provide to investigative and participatory journalism.

I've brainstormed some preliminary thoughts about Migrating Open Source Intelligence Insights Into Participatory Journalism -- but I'll be looking for specific suggestions from professionals who have actually used these more sophisticated analytical techniques.

In a chapter on Peacekeeping Intelligence that Steele wrote, he introduces seven different "tribes" of intelligence by saying:

In the course of sponsoring over fifteen international conferences, during which I have deliberately sought to bring before my national intelligence colleagues the best that the private sector has to offer, it has become obvious to me that there are seven tribes of intelligence, not one; that all of these tribes are at very elementary stages in their development; and that the tribes share some generic functionalities that lend themselves to burden-sharing, at the same time that the tribes also have unique conditions where they alone can excel.

Steele evaluates the objective capabilities of each of the seven intelligence "tribes", and estimates that the news media is only at 20% of their intelligence analysis capability while the government is only at 50%:

There is plenty of room for growth for each of these seven intelligence tribes, and the good news is that the improved findability of information fueled by the Internet is improving the public and professional intelligence capabilities across the board.

But there is still a long ways to go.

So this is one reason why I will be attending this conference so that I can help document some of the Best Practices and Proven Methods of Intelligence Analysis that will be discussed throughout the three days of presentations.

I'm also keenly interested in how the concept of Information Peacekeeping can be used in conjunction with Open Source Intelligence to be a non-violent alternative to war.

Below is a sampling of really useful intelligence analysis references that I've come across in preparation for this conference:

* A Compendium of Analytic Tradecraft Notes from the CIA

* Intelligence Essentials for Everyone

* NATO Open Source Intelligence Documents

* Online CIA Book: Psychology of Intelligence Analysis

* Essay: Standards of Intelligence Reasoning

* Steele Presentation on Intelligence at a Hackers Conference: Google versus the CIA -- Five Year Outlook

* Book Draft: INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time"

* Syllabus for a Master's Level Course in Strategic Intelligence