Say it ain't so, John! - DOD jumps on wiki bandwagon - Techipedia! aahh!
It seems like it was only a month or so that I wrote about Bureaupedia. Why Techipedia now? It's not like DOD didn't know. (I've added emphasis and comments to some excerpts below.)
DOD Techipedia is similar to online encyclopedia Wikipedia and the intelligence community’s Intellipedia, said John Young, undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics....
DOD spends about $10 billion a year on science and technology, and that money must be used effectively to help warfighters in the field, Young said. The new wiki will help DOD officials better coordinate their efforts, he added. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like DOD officials are not coordinating their efforts to well with the Intelligence Community.“You want to do this so all the individuals out there executing some of that $10 billion can look elsewhere in the Defense Department and see if someone else has already tried an idea,” Young said. “That way we can get the collaboration [and] coordination and reduce duplication. It also lets us avoid learning the same lesson two or three times in our enterprise.” Reduce duplication? Really? Why doesn't DOD use Intellipedia then? When will the lesson be learned that creating stovepipes is not the answer?
Am I the only one who thinks this wrong? Or are there deeper reasons for doing this?
Please help me understand. (Please comment while I go talk to my CPA about how I can give the government less money to waste.)
Tags: intellipedia, techipedia, bureaupedia, intelligencecommunity, wiki, wikipedia, duplication, waste, dod, defense department, wiki bandwagon
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