The Director of National Intelligence invites us all to a public conference, July 16-17 in DC called “DNI Open Source Conference 2007: Expanding the Horizons”:

The conference will raise awareness about open source and encourage information sharing among the Intelligence Community and its partners in academia, think tanks, private industry, and with federal, state, local and tribal entities and international partners. The two-day conference will host participants from local, national, and international organizations from both the public and private sector. Over 25 panels will explore the following topics:

*Social Sciences and the Human Terrain* Regional Focus: OS in Asia* The Need for Speed*

*Managing the Information Tsunami* Regional Focus: OS in Africa*

*Academic Outreach* Open Source on the Web* Meeting IC Collection Priorities*

*Technology: Improving the Use of Open Sources* Media: Telling the Story through Open Sources*

* Data Fusion and Data Enrichment* Training on Accessing Open Sources*

*Maximizing Information Sharing Access* Media as the Open Source*

*Libraries of the Future* Private Sector Partnerships*

*Regional Focus: OS in Latin America* Private Sector Sources of Information*

* Enabling Civil Liberties through Open Source* The Academic-Open Source Connection*

*Regional Focus: OS in the Middle East* Improving OS Analysis and Production* Open Source 101 Training*

*International Partnerships* Outreach to State, Local, and Tribal Partners*

*Knowledge Management* Trends in Business Intelligence* Beyond Simple Searching*

You can register here. (I can’t go, but I’m impressed that they’re having this conference.) [Tags: open_source intelligence dni ]

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