Hugh Pickens writes "The CIA is aspire to Web 2.0 tools like collaborative wikis but not without a endeavor in an agency with an ingrained culture of secrecy. 'We're still kind of in this early adoptive stage,' says Sean Dennehy, a CIA analyst and self-described 'evangelist' for Intellipedia, the US lore




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definition:new information community's version of the popular user-curated online encyclopedia Wikipedia adding that 'trying to instrument these tools in the report jungle is fundamentally like telling people that their parents raised them wrong. It is a huge disciplining change.' Dennehy says Intellipedia, which runs on secure command intranets and is used by 16 US information agencies, was started as a pilot project in 2005 and now has approximately 100,000 user financial affairs and gets about 4,000 edits a day. 'Some people have (supported it) but there's still a lot of other folks kind of sitting on the fence.' Dennehy says wikis are 'a slap to our culture because we grew up in this kind of "need to know" culture and now we need a balance between "need to know" and "need to share."' A desire to compartamentalize info* is another problem. 'Inevitably, every person, the first query we were asked is "How do I lock down a page?" or "How do I lock down a page so that just my five colleagues can access that?"' The growth of Intellipedia has so far largely been fueled by early adopters and enthusiasts says Chris Rasmussen, a social-software lore manager and trainer at the national Geospatial third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 Agency. 'We are struggling to take it to the next level.'"

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