I’ve written before how Jared Cohen of Google Ideas has been trying to discern how to stop terrorism. By determining the similarity how gangs recruit and initiate members to those methods employed by terrorists. And, given those similarities, how to stop folks from belonging to either. That’s a great idea to me.
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Do you ever wonder why some of these folks in the Middle East, Idaho, or Chechnya decide to become terrorists? What makes them consider killing innocent children, women, and men- and losing their own lives?
Continue reading Can we tame the terror card?
I had the opportunity last year to attend a very interesting program, graciously sponsored by Mintz Levin (an International Law and Lobbying firm). The program title was “Internet Freedom, Social Media and Policy-Making in the 21st Century”. I learned a lot and met some very interesting people. One of them was Jared Cohen- then, a 28 year old Wunderkind. Jared had worked for Condoleeza Rice in the State Department in the policy planning unit. He stayed over to work with Hilary Clinton, where he specialized in counter-terrorism, youth, technology- and even the Middle East. And, he explained the kind of work and things he had seen during his time there. He left the State Department last year to join the Council on Foreign Relations, subsequently joining Google. He agreed to join Google to do just what he is doing now. He heads up Google Ideas, a small (6 person?) think tank in New York. (And, no, there isn’t a website for Google Ideas.)
Continue reading Google has better Ideas? We’ll see soon…