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Why oh why is the FBI creating its own wiki? Why waste taxpayer dollars again (remember Virtual Case File)? Why not just use Intellipedia? The FBI as well as the IC could benefit.

Here's an excerpt from the FCW article along with some color commentary:

Officials see Bureaupedia as a knowledge management tool that will let agents and analysts share their experiences to ensure that their accumulated insight remains after they retire. *It will be interesting to see how the FBI plans to extract tacit knowledge from retirees*. The project is a collaborative effort between FBI’s chief knowledge officer and chief technology officer. Why wasn't it a collaborative effort with the CIOs in other agencies? *I'm sure more than one would have mentioned Intellipedia*.

“An agent that retires after 30 years leaves with all of that — what we call a tacit knowledge — everything leaves with him,” said Zalmai Azmi, FBI’s chief information officer, who will be retiring in October. *I wonder if Mr. Azmi will be contributing to the wiki.* That includes “best practices, things that he did differently, things that he wishes he had done differently.” *I think that the "things that he wishes he had done differently" part would be especially interesting.*

The FBI’s new wiki uses the same open-source software as Wikipedia, and after the test period is complete, the agency will launch it on the FBI’s secure intranet, FBINet. *Again, why duplicate the effort? Intellipedia is already on Intelink which is already accessible to many agencies.*

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An FBI spokesman said Bureaupedia will also let users link to articles in Intellipedia, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s wiki for the intelligence community. *Need I add anything else? :)*

read the rest of the article here: FBI creates knowledge wiki

I understand that many may argue that FBI is domestic and the IC is foreign intel, but I am sure there are ways that to avoid overstepping boundaries, both procedural and technological.

I just really dislike seeing duplication of efforts especially when something is already out there and it works!

Please share thoughts. Should the FBI have their own wiki? Maybe I should ask the FBI CIO himself... Anybody have his email address? :)

Tags: Bureaupedia, intellipedia, intelligencecommunity, IC, FBI, intelink, zalmai azmi, cio, dni, director of national intelligence, government IT