Article from Lanka Business Online that pretty much says the same thing as others but has some additional quotes from a Washington think tank person
The Lanka Business Online website (which according to the website "is the first and only business news organisation to leverage the potential of new age media in Sri Lanka") has a reference to Intellipedia from AFP. It pretty much says the same thing as others with one exception. They have commentary by James Lewis of the CSIS, who says the following (with some of my comments along the way...):
Despite the security concerns, Intellipedia represented a useful way around the more than 30 separate, incompatible computer networks that bog down communication between spy agencies, said James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think tank.
Personally I don't see how Intellipedia could be more of a security concern than a phone... but that's just me. Also, using the past tense to refer to Intellipedia sounds like Intellipedia is dead, but I doubt that it is... (or maybe I'm just being picky... :)
Undertaken less than six years since Wikipedia itself was launched, the project was adopted unusually quickly by a set of government agencies often known for moving too slowly, he said.
"Unusually quickly..." I must agree, especially for the government! ;-)
"For the intelligence community, this is warp speed," Lewis said, adding that the spy agencies were likely ahead of other US government departments in their embrace of Wiki software.
It must be true. I haven't heard of any other government agencies (US or otherwise) that have embraced wikis. Have you?
While intelligence agencies had made progress in pooling information, dramatic reform was still required to improve the way espionage was carried out, Lewis told AFP.
"It's a good step but there's a need to go further," Lewis said.
I wonder what more Mr. Lewis thinks should happen... (BTW, I'm not saying that more shouldn't happen...) What do you think?
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