Open Source Information: a new world?
European Osint Nexus - EON's Launching Event took place at l'Ecole Militaire in Paris, France.
EON made an agreement with Western Defense Studies Institute, Rome, Italy, to combine efforts on tackling the pre-emptive action against all forms of terror. Amongst those are included gangs in the cities, terrorists organizations monitoring, lectures, etc.
WDSI is a think tank organization which is composed of major specialists in the different fields endangering our countries.
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Dans son numéro 579 du 9 au 22 octobre 2008 Intelligence on line (http//www.intelligenceonline.com) présentait la création de EON de la manière suivante :"Mobilisation en faveur des sources ouvertes. Le 15 octobre sera lancée, à l’Ecole Militaire, la première association française destinée à promouvoir le développement des sources ouvertes : European Open Sources Intelligence Nexus (EON). L’association est placée sous la présidence de Jean Labrique, qui fut chef de la mission privée belge au Liban dans les années 80 et préside désormais le très discret Western Defense Studies Institute à Rome. Labrique a mis en place EON avec un fonctionnaire du ministère français de la défense spécialisé sur les questions de sources ouvertes et qui est vice-président de l'association".
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Our non for profit organization has been created by committed specialists in the field of intelligence and open source intelligence.
Some are active in evaluating and acquiring new technologies to be of use at their ministry, others work at bodies such as civil intelligence, police headquarters, foreign ministry civil servants etc..
All have at least 25 years experience in the field of counter terrorism, gathering intelligence, using the up to date technologies available for their activities.
We realize that the threat we face nowadays is asymmetric and requires to be conscious of the necessity of sharing intelligence with others who face the same typology of threat that we encounter.
Open source intelligence makes it easier to start sharing with other "services" from other bodies or countries by its very nature: open source!
Jean Labrique
European Osint Nexus - EON.