Joe Parry says: In Intelligence Infographics ” a good sketch is better than a long speech”.

How should we communicate the results of our analysis to decision-makers? How to visualize key information for decision makers?  The talk of Joe Parry argued that visualisations and infographics play a very important role, not only for analytical processes of data analysts, but also for explaining the analytical results to decision-makers at the highest of [...]

EISIC, Dr. Nasrullah Memon and Computational Criminology: Early Warning Informatics System could predict Terrorist Threats

On the occasion of the EISIC (September 12-14,2011) held in Athens, we interviewed the Program Chair of the event Dr. Nasrullah Memon, professor at the University of Southern Denmark and member of the Steering Committee of the European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference EISIC on Counterterrorism and Criminology. The event was organized jointly with The [...]

Drug gang threatens Mexican bloggers

This week the Mexican Zetas drug cartel sent a clear message to websites that report on the drug war, in a note with two mutilated corpses hung from an overpass near the U.S. border. Officials at the state prosecutor’s office said a sign warning bloggers to stay quiet was found next to the disemboweled bodies [...]

Sensor Urban Environments can prevent and fight robberies, terrorism attacks, natural catastrophes and other emergencies.

This document was published by the criminology scientists Charalampos Doulaverakis, Nikolaos Konstantinou, Thomas Knape, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and John Soldatos. Doulaverakis was the keynote speaker at the EISIC 2011 SecuAll scientists are related to three institutions: a)  Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas  in Thessaloniki, Greece  b) the Autonomic and Grid Computing [...]

Athens Cyber Security Conference, Dr. Thuraisingham´s “Data Mining for Security”.

On September 12th, and during the first day of the conference EISIC 2011 “European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference, on Counterterrorism and Criminology,” the first keynote speech was given by the expert Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Cyber ​​Security (BT) (*). The title of his presentation was “Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications”. Among [...]

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Minors Sexual Abuse: No one battles it as clearly as The Pope and The Catholic Church.

Vatican-  ”The Catholic Church, despite deformed image with which you want to represent, is the only ”institution that clearly has decided to conduct the battle against the sexual abuse of minors starting from the inside, ” Osservatore Romano writes today. “We must give credit to Benedict XVI – emphasizes the Vatican newspaper – because he have given [...]

Peru and the killings of Bagua

LIMA., 14th June  - Two weeks ago a tragic event happened in Peru.. Many people were killed, at least 50, as a consequence of a confrontation between the police and indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon jungle region in the area known as the Curva del Diablo, or the Bagua. There, some 5,000 peruvian natives blocked [...]

U.S.- Latin American Trade in the Bush Era

by Richard E. Feinberg   ABSTRACT (This working paper was published in 2003, please read note of the Publisher) With remarkable success, Latin Americans have sought to impose their free trade policy agenda on a very reluctant and internally fractious United States. They have an ally in President George W. Bush, whose senior appointments notably [...]