Author
Elie Habib
Founder of World Monitor
Elie Habib is the founder of World Monitor, an open-source platform for real-time global intelligence. He previously co-founded and led Anghami (NASDAQ: ANGH). His work focuses on making geopolitical, market, infrastructure, and public-source intelligence accessible to analysts, journalists, developers, and the public.
Articles by Elie Habib
We Grade Our Own Forecasts: Inside the Forecast Scorecard
WorldMonitor publishes a Brier-score audit of 32 AI forecasts, including calibration results, overconfidence patterns, and comparison with prediction markets.
Six Ways WorldMonitor Reaches You When the World Changes
Telegram, Slack, Discord, email, webhooks, and web push — WorldMonitor's alert rules deliver scoped intelligence with digest modes and quiet hours, no code required.
Aviation Intelligence: Airports, Airspace, and Flight Prices as Signals
WorldMonitor tracks 115 airports, FAA delays, NOTAM closures, military aircraft, GPS jamming, and live Google Flights prices — because aviation reacts to risk first.
Monitor Disease Outbreaks and Air Quality on One Map
WorldMonitor merges WHO outbreak news, CDC travel notices, and outbreak trackers with OpenAQ and WAQI air-quality sensors into one global health-signals layer.
The Energy Security Dashboard: Oil, Gas, and Grid Risk on One Screen
Explore WorldMonitor's energy dashboard: 26 panels covering chokepoints, 88 pipelines, gas storage, fuel shortages, crisis policies, and prices.
Track Government Tenders Worldwide in One Feed
WorldMonitor aggregates public tenders from SAM.gov, TED, Contracts Finder, CanadaBuys, GETS, and the World Bank into one searchable procurement feed.
Ground-Truth Inflation: Tracking Real Shelf Prices, Not Just CPI
WorldMonitor tracks supermarket shelf prices across four UAE retailers and compares them with the Big Mac Index, FAO food prices, fuel prices, and IMF CPI.
Sanctions Monitoring: Designations and Country Pressure in Real Time
WorldMonitor tracks OFAC SDN and consolidated designations, computes per-country sanctions pressure, and folds exposure into country risk — on the map and via API.
The Good News Dashboard: Positive News with an Intelligence Engine
Explore Happy Monitor's 27 positive-news feeds covering conservation wins, scientific breakthroughs, clean energy, and live human-progress indicators.
Real-Time Radiation Monitoring: Read the Sensors, Not the Rumors
WorldMonitor merges EPA RadNet stations and the Safecast citizen-sensor network into a live radiation layer, with nuclear sites and IAEA irradiators for context.
Track Tariffs and Trade Policy Before They Hit Your Costs
Track WTO tariff baselines, US customs revenue, food-price indices, and trade news in WorldMonitor to spot policy shifts before they reach invoices.
Track Refugee and Displacement Flows with UNHCR Data
WorldMonitor maps refugee and IDP populations from UNHCR's official API — displacement flows on the map, a dedicated panel, and structured data for agents.
WorldMonitor Is Not an Open-Source Palantir
WorldMonitor turns public data across markets, trade, conflict, energy, and infrastructure into live dashboards, APIs, and agent tools — not a Palantir clone.
Free vs. Paid Real-Time Intelligence Dashboards: What to Compare
Compare free and paid intelligence dashboards using seven buying criteria and 2026 price anchors ranging from $0 to $24,000 per year.
What the Data Showed 72 Hours Before a Geopolitical Shock
A reusable 72-hour retro template for investigating whether signals were visible before a chokepoint, conflict, market, cyber, or humanitarian event escalated.
Country Resilience Index Methodology
A practical guide to the WorldMonitor Country Resilience Index: 196 countries, 6 domains, 20 active dimensions, 3 pillars, and a transparent 0-100 score.
Critical Minerals and HHI: Measuring Supply Concentration Risk
How WorldMonitor uses 2024 production data and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index to explain supply concentration in lithium, cobalt, rare earths, and more.
The Geopolitics-to-Markets Pipeline for Macro Traders
Translate geopolitical events into market watchlists with transmission paths, macro radar, commodities, forecasts, stablecoins, and source-backed context.
Humanitarian Situational Awareness Workflow
A field-security workflow for NGOs using displacement, humanitarian summaries, advisories, disease alerts, disasters, and country-risk context.
Self-Host WorldMonitor: Run an Open Source OSINT Dashboard Locally
A practical overview of self-hosting WorldMonitor with Docker or Podman, required secrets, Redis, seeders, optional API keys, and AGPL responsibilities.
Stress-Test Your Supply Chain with WorldMonitor's Scenario Engine
How Scenario Engine turns chokepoint, trade, and HS2 exposure data into async stress tests for Hormuz, Taiwan, Suez, Panama, tariffs, and grain routes.
What Is a Maritime Chokepoint?
Learn what maritime chokepoints are, how WorldMonitor tracks 13 waterways, and how to interpret live flow estimates, disruptions, and status scores.
Embed a Live Global Intelligence Map in Any Article
World Monitor now supports a public iframe map for conflicts, earthquakes, protests, and weather, with attribution and validated embed parameters.
Ask Claude What's Happening in the World
Connect Claude to WorldMonitor's MCP server so non-developers can ask live questions about conflicts, markets, chokepoints, country risk, and breaking news.
Build a Geopolitical Risk Agent with WorldMonitor MCP
Give Claude, Cursor, or your own AI agent live conflict, market, maritime, aviation, and country-risk context through WorldMonitor's MCP server.
Country Risk Due Diligence with WorldMonitor
Use CII, advisory provenance, sanctions, macro indicators, and conflict events to screen country exposure before investments, suppliers, trips, or market entry.
Energy Shock Monitoring: Chokepoints, Fuel, and Markets
How analysts can monitor oil, gas, electricity, maritime chokepoints, fuel shortages, and policy responses with WorldMonitor before an energy shock spreads.
Free Geopolitical Data APIs in 2026
A practical comparison of ACLED, GDELT, UCDP, USGS, NASA FIRMS, Cloudflare Radar, and WorldMonitor for developers building geopolitical risk tools.
Build Geopolitical Risk Alerts for Slack or Teams with WorldMonitor
Turn WorldMonitor API and MCP data into practical alerts for country risk, chokepoints, cyber threats, forecasts, and data freshness without alert fatigue.
Build a Supply Chain Early Warning Dashboard with WorldMonitor's API
A practical blueprint for monitoring chokepoints, port activity, energy disruption, trade policy, and commodity signals before procurement surprises.
Give Your AI Agent Eyes on the World: The World Monitor MCP Server
Connect Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client to 41 live geopolitical intelligence tools. Real-time country risk, conflicts, chokepoints, and markets for AI agents.
Build a Supply-Chain Early-Warning System in an Afternoon
Score your trade lanes for chokepoint exposure, subscribe to disruption webhooks, and pipe alerts to Slack with this World Monitor API tutorial.
Monitor Country Risk Like an Intelligence Agency
A four-step country risk workflow: baseline scores, dossier deep-dives, continuous watch, and automated alerts across free and Pro tools.
A Journalist's OSINT Workflow: Verifying Breaking News in Ten Minutes
Cross-check breaking news against ship traffic, flight data, satellite fire detection, internet outages, and webcams with this OSINT workflow.
The 15-Minute Morning Intelligence Briefing: A Repeatable Daily Workflow
A minute-by-minute morning briefing routine for analysts: world brief, risk movers, watchlists, regional context, forward indicators, and automation.
Country Instability Index: How Real-Time Risk Scoring Works
World Monitor explains CII signal weights, baseline blending, score floors, and what a 0-100 country instability score means for analysts.
Track Trade Routes, Chokepoints, and Freight Costs
Track 13 maritime chokepoints, freight indices (BDI, SCFI), trade policy, and critical mineral risks in real time. Free supply chain intelligence dashboard.
World Monitor vs. Traditional Intelligence Tools
Compare World Monitor to Bloomberg, Palantir, Dataminr, and Recorded Future. Free, open-source multi-domain intelligence vs. six-figure enterprise platforms.
Build on World Monitor: APIs and Developer Platform
Build intelligence apps on World Monitor's typed API: 35 services, 281 proto files, 80+ edge functions, and auto-generated TypeScript clients. AGPL-3.0.
Private AI Intelligence: World Monitor Without the Cloud
Run AI-powered intelligence analysis on your own hardware. World Monitor supports Ollama, LM Studio, and in-browser ML for private geopolitical analysis.
Cmd+K: Search Everything on the Planet in Under a Second
Fuzzy-search 195 countries, 56 map layers, and 150+ commands with World Monitor's Cmd+K palette. Multilingual, keyboard-driven intelligence access.
Intelligence Without Borders: World Monitor in 25 Languages
World Monitor supports 25 languages with full RTL Arabic, CJK, and locale-specific news feeds. AI analysis and search in your preferred language, free.
Prediction Markets and AI Forecasting in World Monitor
World Monitor combines Polymarket odds with AI geopolitical forecasting, putting market probabilities beside live intelligence for actionable context.
Watch the World Live: 31 Webcam Streams from Geopolitical Hotspots
Stream 31 live webcams from Tehran, Kyiv, Jerusalem, Taipei, and beyond. Get real-time situational awareness from 6 global regions on World Monitor, free.
Satellite Imagery OSINT in Your Browser
Access satellite imagery for geopolitical hotspots in World Monitor. Search by location, time, and cloud cover, then overlay it on live intelligence layers.
Monitor Global Supply Chains and Commodity Disruptions in Real Time
Track commodity prices, port disruptions, pipeline infrastructure, and supply chain risks in real time. Free supply chain monitoring dashboard on World Monitor.
Cyber Threat Intelligence with Geopolitical Context
Track botnets, malware URLs, and internet outages with geopolitical context. Integrates Feodo Tracker, URLhaus, and AlienVault OTX on one map.
Real-Time Market Intelligence with World Monitor Finance
Monitor 29 stock exchanges, 14 central banks, commodities, and macro signals in one free dashboard. World Monitor Finance gives traders the geopolitical edge.
Real-Time Natural Disaster Monitoring with World Monitor
Track earthquakes, satellite-detected fires, volcanic eruptions, and floods in real time. Free disaster monitoring with geopolitical context on World Monitor.
OSINT for Everyone: Open Source Intelligence with World Monitor
World Monitor brings professional-grade OSINT to everyone. 500+ feeds, live tracking, AI threat analysis, and 56 map layers in one free open source dashboard.
Track Global Conflicts in Real Time with World Monitor
Monitor active conflicts, military movements, and geopolitical escalation in real time. World Monitor tracks 210+ bases across 9 theaters with live ADS-B data.
Six Intelligence Dashboards on One Platform
Explore six free World Monitor dashboards for geopolitics, technology, finance, commodities, positive news, and energy, all built on one platform.
What Is World Monitor? The Free Real-Time Global Intelligence Dashboard
World Monitor is a free, open-source intelligence dashboard aggregating news, markets, conflicts, and infrastructure into one real-time view. No login required.