[WikiEN-l] Intellipedia the intelligence version of Wikipedia launched

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

Fastfission wrote

> There was a news story earlier in the year that reported that
> something like half of the FBI didn't even have e-mail working yet,
> and that they (or was it the CIA?) were having endless problems trying
> to set up a standard database for their intelligence info. These guys
> seem to be constantly way behind the times in terms of individual
> computer technology. My purely speculative guess is that  -- like
> large universities and other slow-to-change bureaucracies which have
> no profit motive, tight funds, and no customer-feedback systems --
> they think in terms of big, uniform solutions that cost lots of money,
> are hard to upgrade, and are centrally controlled.

Yup, they are way ahead in bureaucracy and infighting. WP's competitive edge is really that we come at things from the other end. This is why the concept of wiki is hardly explicable in terms of the past experience of most successful people. It's counter-intuitive for those who know how organisations work, that follow the post-WWII corporate patterns of command-and-control.

Charles

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