I recently began development of a front-end application for Project Din's Fire, the first DIN based on Steemit. Soon to be released on https://dinsfire.org, the objective is to create the first open-source, publicly accessible intelligence gathering, analysis and reporting application based on the Steemit platform and Graphene blockchain.
While still in very early development, I thought I'd share some of the collective ideas on how the DinsFire platform will operate so far. Perhaps this will give some folks at least an idea of what we hope to achieve, which will hopefully surpass the similar efforts of organizations like WikiLeaks, Wikipedia and the general mainstream media machine.
Users of the DIN, either agents or directors, will be encouraged to collect, analyze and report on any number of subjects which are of importance to its userbase. These general subjects, known as directives, will group users into specializations ranging from cryptocurrency markets intelligence to missing persons and whatever the DIN's directors find pertinent enough to petition.
Directors themselves are agents (entry-level users) who have accomplished intelligence activities (such as written reports and data collection) and have been nominated by other directors on the network. Directors can also create missions which are a set of tasks or goals under a particular directive meant to be accomplished through intelligence activities. Directors will then be able to flag "raw" intelligence (Steemit posts, external blogs, news, etc.) for its relevance to a particular mission or directive as well as assign a level for the "quality" or integrity of the intelligence itself.
A future goal of Din's Fire will be to incorporate other sources for raw intelligence than simply Steemit, however, and will leverage the Steemit platform as a means to publish reports and analysis as well as a central source for user accounts and interaction. ChainBB may also be included in this process, but it will be but one part of the overall DIN. Ideally there will be some portal for sensitive sources (ie. whistleblowers) to securely and anonymously post critical information to DIN members.
Agents and directors alike can earn "accolades" for accomplishing missions or otherwise furthering directives in meaningful ways. These accolades, much like achievements or badges, will draw attention to particularly productive and creative users and allow agents to become directors themselves.
All in all this will be an attempt to use Steemit as an engaging platform for public intelligence gathering and sharing, and might very well redefine the word "intelligence" itself for the better and more accurate.
Productivity, not apathy.
Cooperation, not separation.
Truth, not perception.