Re: <nettime> Pricing a Protest: Forecasting the Dynamics of Civil

[walter palmetshofer <walter@thing.net>]

Maybe this is interesting in that context:

Social Unrest: Millennial Uprising Scenario 2015 by Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies

slides http://www.risk.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/events/other/downloads/150122_riskbriefing_socialunrestrisk_slides.pdf

report http://cambridgeriskframework.com/getdocument/22

Also a few days ago there was the Recorded Future User Network
Conference, perhaps Dan Geer can chip in on the latest.

>From the department nothing new under the sun:

This was from 2012 

http://semanticommunity.info/AOL_Government/2012_Recorded_Future_User_Conference

back then recordedfuture had interesting webinars on monitoring protest 
and social unrest, here claiming 85% accuracy for their prediction 2012 

https://youtu.be/ffPSocrmfQI?t=213

Monitoring Protests and Unrest - Recorded Future Webcast 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sbny91NjeA

Monitoring Social Media Authors 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGMg1jNF3D4

also interesting Quid https://youtu.be/mKZCa_ejbfg?t=890

CEO 

https://gigaom.com/2013/05/21/the-future-of-propaganda-a-qa-with-sean-gourley-about-big-data-and-the-war-of-ideas/

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2012/05/14/152444019/algorithms-the-ever-growing-all-knowing-way-of-the-future

and the above mentioned Cytora - Real-Time Political Risk Analysis 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJsriO_o_9I

Future research projects http://minerva.dtic.mil/funded.html

And then there is always enterprise solution Palantir.


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