Walid Phares is momentaal expert bij
Wikistrat.
Wikistrat Ltd., or WIKISTRAT, is a geostrategic analysis firm founded in Israel in 2010, with offices in Australia, Israel and the United States. It describes itself as the world's first massively multiplayer online consultancy leveraging a global network of subject-matter experts.
Wikistrat technology platform:
By using a Web 2.0 platform, it allows peer-to-peer interactions and offers “an environment of collaboration where analysts can manage the information overload, and exploit the wisdom of the crowd. The platform and methodology... enables the interdisciplinary deconstruction of geopolitical issues and trends in a structured yet flexible manner, to aid strategists in thinking through problems in a systematic fashion.”
Het concept = "Facebook meets Wikipedia" (naar eigen zeggen).