CIA Details Its Wikipedia-Like Tools For Analysts 164
hhavensteincw writes "If you think selling Web 2.0 in your organization is hard, some early backers of a Wikipedia-like project at the Central Intelligence Agency were called traitors and told they 'would get someone killed' by their efforts. But Intellipedia — the CIA's version of Wikipedia — now is so heavily used by analysts that the agency is using it in its security briefings, according to two of the CIA employees who work on the project. Intellipedia has been expanded since it was first launched so that now it boasts its own YouTube-like channel for video and Flickr-like photo sharing as well as a wiki where workers can debate different intel information."
Re:It makes a lot of sense... (Score:4, Informative)
Wikipedia has a screenshot (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I guess (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Oh Boy.... (Score:5, Informative)
It's actually a very good collaboration tool, as normally cross-department/cross-agency work is almost non-existant, and when the information does get passed along, it's too old to be useful. Also, things like streaming UAS feeds are often on there as well, as sometimes other agencies are better at imageint than the ones taking the pictures.
- sF (...somewhere in Iraq.)
Re:It makes a lot of sense... (Score:1, Informative)
RTFA (Score:5, Informative)
"We are not typically dealing with facts," he noted. "We are dealing with puzzles and mysteries. Everyone in the community is working on something of vital national security importance. We want to get to the point in the intelligence community where everyone is contributing their knowledge to Intellipedia."
Re:RTFA (Score:2, Informative)
(Ward Christensen wrote Xmodem)
Re:WIKI is an acronym for "What I Know Is" (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I guess (Score:2, Informative)
Accuracy without efficient dissemination is useless.
Efficient dissemination without accuracy is useless.
Each is just as potentially destructive as the other and choosing between the two is not really an option.