ClappingTree’s Web 2.0

Elliot Masie’s newsletter today highlighted a fascinating article written by an analyst in the CIA about the experimental use of Wikis, Blogs and other “community knowledge” tools in the Intelligence arena. The article is (“The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community” by Dr D. Calvin Andrus – Central Intelligence Agency). Of particular interest to me is the comparison Andrus made between blogs and wikis and the need for three wrapper technologies (repository, search and feedback). Here’s an extract:

“US policy-makers, war-fighters, and law-enforcers now operate in a real-time worldwide decision and implementation environment. The rapidly changing circumstances in which they operate take on lives of their own, which are difficult or impossible to anticipate or predict. The only way to meet the continuously unpredictable challenges ahead of us is to match them with continuously unpredictable changes of our own. We must transform the Intelligence Community into a community that dynamically reinvents itself by continuously learning and adapting as the national security environment changes.

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