I just found
Dr. Calvin Andrus'
presentation at the e-gov institute 7th Annual Knowledge Management Conference and Exhibition (19-21 April 2006). (Dr. Andrus is
the Chief Technology Officer for the CIA Center for Mission Innovation.)
The presentation looks like it would have been very interesting. (I wish I had been there!) It also looks like it is based on his 2004 Intelligence Community Galileo award winning paper:
The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community The conclusion (I pasted in below from the presentation) is the key:
-Technology is the enabler, not the solution
-The solution is changing the culture to allow intelligence officers to share and act -- with simple rules of engagement
-The ODNI must build an incentive and reward structure for those components that adopt this new model of doing business
The DNI as the leader of the Intelligence Community must do what Dr. Andrus recommends because otherwise intelligence officers will see these wiki and blog thingies as just more work. In order to really change, people must see wikis and blogs as integral parts of their work. Providing incentives and rewards will definitely be a step in the right direction to ensure that cultural change happens.
So how long do you think it will be before wikis and blogs become a part of an intelligence officers arsenal?
On a side not, I saw that Dr. Andrus mentioned Intellipedia on page 12 (slide 23) when mentioning CIA's use of wikis and blogs. One thing that I wonder is why CIA has an internal wiki and does not exclusively use Intellipedia.
Anyone have ideas on why this may be the case? Why not just use the Intelligence Community wiki?
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