A bud forwarded the link to this site - INSA Analytic Transformation videos - the next best thing to being there & why the heck wouldn't the Intelligence Community be on Second Life
I referred to the INSA Analytic Tansformation conference in a previous post and a friend sent me a link to the INSA Analytic Transformation presentations in video. (Thanks friend!)
I haven't had a chance to watch them yet, but feel free to take a look at them and post your thoughts and comments (good or bad) here.
The one that might be interesting is: A-Space: Bringing Web 2.0 to IC Collaboration by Robert Cardillo
I'm listening to it and one interesting stat is that 61% of employees at DIA have been at DIA under 5 years. Interesting!
Another quote (which is kinda scary, but true) is "we don't know what we know."
One question that was presented was curious: "What tests have been done to demonstrate the utility of A-Space?"
My answer: how can you really test a social network? You can test its features, but the most important part of social software is the people that will on the network. A social network could have the greatest features in the world, but if noone uses it, it's worthless.
another question presented to Mr. Cardillo: "Do you see a place for a Second Life-like concept in the IC?"
his answer: "That's where these people have these fictitious lives on the Net. I don't think so, I hope not."
my answer: He probably doesn't really know what it is so he may have been a little premature in stating that he doesn't think especially since Sean Dennehy, the CIA's Chief of Intellipedia development, recently was in FCW article:
Dennehy added that some users are asking for a virtual world for the intelligence community similar to Second Life.
“I think it is a no-brainer,” he said. “We could use it for training and other things.”
Hey if the CDC has Hygeia Philo, the virtual public health worker in the "virtual CDC" (in Second Life), why can't the IC have virtual workers?
An even better reason why the US Intelligence Community should be on Second Life is here. Scary... The US IC may need to speak with their Aussie counterparts...
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your link to the INSA Analytic Transformation presentations doesn't work for me. i'm especially interested in fingar's presentation. do you have a direct link for that one? thanks!
Posted by: selise | September 11, 2008 06:53 AM
Unfortunately, I checked around their website and was unable to find the links to the videos. Doing a searh on INSAs website for "Analytic Transformation" did turn up some interesting PDFs.
Check http://insaonline.org/
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September 18, 2008 01:43 PM
When Cardillo said "That's where these people have these fictitious lives on the Net" he exhausted his knowledge on the subject. Personally, I think Second life may have some operational uses. Dennehy came closer when he said …"other uses"
Posted by: George | October 28, 2008 09:39 PM
Thanks George! I do agree with you, there could be other operational uses for Second Life as well.
It wouldn't be surprising if the bad guys already use it for planning or other purposes. Why not find information in non-traditional ways, too?
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November 4, 2008 10:02 AM