Robert David Steele is a former Marin, CIA officer, and co-founder of the US Marine Corps Intelligence Activity. Steele has been a champion of open source and transparency in governance, specifically the intelligence community. In his latest book: The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust, he outlines what he believes to be the coming open source revolution. Steele believes open source is set to overturn traditional, top-down models of governance and community with new models of bottom-up, citizen-led governance. This article is a must-read.
