Cultural Intelligence
Cultural intelligence gathers, evaluates and processes meta-information about the foundations of information based society. This includes clear analysis and investigation of its societal, cultural, economic and political potentials and dangers. Cultural Intelligence serves the public interest through empowerment and acts as a balance to traditional military or economic intelligence services that gather information to increase control. Cultural intelligence services compensate the public?s lack of meta-information as socio-political and cultural foundation for decision-making. These services need to foster and protect the public sphere and discourse as well as the variety and richness of cultural expressions in a society increasingly determined by information and communication technologies.
To meet the public?s need for high quality and accessible cultural information and content, cultural intelligence processes information on developments and probable courses of action in the infosphere. Cultural Intelligence advocates citizens' rights of cultural freedom, freedom of opinion and expression, communication and privacy.
By observing and analyzing enlightening cultural, socio-political, technological and economical trends, culture intelligence counters indoctrination and propaganda.