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Bazaars in the Government Cathedral

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tithe-day-is-april-15 dept.

guanxi writes: "This article by James Fallows in The Atlantic is one of the most interesting I've read all year. It describes how innovators in government are applying the concept of the Bazaar: The many eyes of 'Open-Source Intelligence' movement that provides better intelligence than classified sources, and a b2b-like marketplace created by World Bank employees that distributes aid more efficiently than the bureaucratic process."

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  1. Source? by oregon · · Score: 0, Troll

    It doesn't sound like open source intelligence at all.
    The sources are still secret - but some of the results are made public faster.

    But did anyone really expect open intelligence sources?

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