RIEAS organized an event and discussion on: “Terrorism in Greece: Reality versus Mythology” at Titania Hotel, 10 December 2009 in Athens, Greece.
(Computer Science Department Chair, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Indianapolis-Athens).
Until recently, we used to teach our students that economic development is driven by four foundational factors of production: Land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship. In the digital age we need to add one more latent element, Information Technology, in recognition of the fact that technology defines the competitiveness of agriculture, the efficiency of industrial production, and the productivity of the steadily rising services sector, which includes governmental output.
Dr. John M. Nomikos (RIEAS Director) participated in the “Century, Intelligence, Security and Anti-Terrorism in the 20th Century” on 13-14 November 2009 in Koper- Capodistria, Slovenia.
Dr. John M. Nomikos (RIEAS Director) participated in the Security Defense Agenda Conference titled: “Could Europe do better on pooling intelligence?” on 26th October 2009 in Brussels, Belgium.
FUSION CENTERS IN EUROPE: A STEP FORWARD?
Spain, Hungary and Belgium have agreed to cooperate during the period they will each head the EU.
The challenges are many and amongst them there is one that we should monitor with interest: inter-government cooperation in the sharing of information and intelligence. I use both words deliberately. In the modern computerized world, information - masses of information, is readily available to everyone, private citizen and governments alike…however, intelligence is that information which has been collected, processed and analyzed…usually by governments. It is this process of collection, analysis and dissemination that makes information useable, i.e. intelligence…and also probably sensitive and classified.
RIEAS participated in the international conference titled: “Democracies and Intelligence in Conflict and Peace” in Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) at Bar Ilan University (Israel), on 18-20 October 2009.