title:2010 UIA Annual Meeting news & important date change

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We are pleased to inform you of an important scheduling change to our regular annual meeting plans.
This year the UIA Associate Members Meeting will be combined with a special session in honor of the UIA's Centenary celebrations. This 2 day event will again feature a roundtable with association representatives. This year's theme for the Associate Members Meeting and the Roundtable will be an examination of the Conference/Climate Equation.

title:The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy - D Weinberger

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The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy

David Weinberger

The data-information-knowledge-wisdom  hierarchy seemed like a really great idea when it was first proposed. But its rapid acceptance was in fact a sign of how worried we were about the real value of the information systems we had built at such great expense. What looks like a logical progression is actually a desperate cry for help.

title:TSEP's Handbook on Third Sector European Policy has been published

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"Handbook on Third Sector European Policy: Multi-level Processes and OrganizedCivil Society" has now been published by Edward Elgar in the UK and most of the rest of the world. (It will be published in the US in February. 2010)

This volume is the culmination of seven years of research  by the Third Sector European Policy (TSEP)

http://www.kent.ac.uk/tsep/

title:BBC - Age of cyber warfare is 'dawning'

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"many nations were now arming to defend themselves in a cyber war and readying forces to conduct their own attacks."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8363175.stm

The original analysis of "netwar" (Arquilla and Ronfeldt at RAND) saw the threat from different angles:

Networks and Netwars
The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1382/

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