DIANE

Enabling tools or capabilities (like the Internet or money) can be applied to a human-desired end, either constructive or destructive – or any combination.

DIANE is both a synergistic collection of tools that empower the analytical process in extraordinary new ways as well as an engine for exposing knowledge that is locked in large amounts of highly dynamic information. DIANE’s unique combination of individual components is orchestrated through its Integration Engine.

DIANE allows the deep, seamless interaction of human sense-making processes with powerful computer analytical capabilities. It is used to identify new patterns and relationships in unstructured information. It is an innovative information and knowledge planning system. It enables organizations enterprise-wide to anticipate futures rather than respond to events. It provides breakthrough capabilities for identifying and monitoring early indicators of significant change. It enhances the ability of analysts to develop prescient and deep understandings of major potential and emerging events. It brings together a variety of innovative components – some formerly used only for intelligence purposes and others not yet commercialized- to the public arena.

DIANE represents the beginning of a revolution in the ability of the human species to start to develop tools to help themselves systematically look into the future and in so doing, respond before the fact to major potential events that are growing on our horizon.

DIANE is meant to be a tool that enhances the capabilities of humans- it is not meant to replace them. The tool is only as good as the people who use it and understand it. If the users misapply/misunderstand the objective of the tool, they could try to use it predicatively rather than in an analysis or anticipatory fashion. The system is also reliant on the data that it collects. If the data is not-credible or authentic, it will also skew the results of analysis. Another challenge that the users of the system must take into account is copyright and privacy. When information is being collected, the users must have permission to access and download it.