Further evidence that wiki technology is changing the face of collaboration comes from the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations, which filed a report on the use of an “Intellipedia” by sixteen intelligence agencies.
Faced with a nimble, adaptive adversary and an unwieldy bureaucracy, the intelligence community hopes that adopting a revolutionary new social networking software behind the popular “Wikipedia” network will help improve its ability to gather and disseminate information. Last month, John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, revealed the existence of the intelligence community’s own brand of the “Wiki:” “Intellipedia.” Authorized users from all sixteen intelligence agencies have access not only to read the information posted there, but also to create and edit entries where they see fit. Since its inception in April of this year, Intellipedia has grown to more than 28,000 pages generated by some 3,600 users.
I posted earlier about our use of a wiki to run a small workshop. So far, it has been a success, and we are considering using the wiki to prepare a report on our workshop activities.
