Public+Sector+Workplaces


 * Public Sector Workplaces

The CIA has used Plone since 2007. Plone is an open source content management application. It lets non-technical people create and maintain information for a public website or an intranet using only a web browser. Red Hat has produced SELinux for the federal government which is a secure version of GNU/Linux.( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux) E-Government; Government needs to ensure that its data is portable to accommodate any format and not be confined to proprietary software. Information in the one-flow model is coming to an end due to the popularity of the Web 2.0. Data will be shared, linked, edited, and distributed in a collaborative and open fashion. Government services need not be provided in person. Access to information of services needs to accommodate the internet, cellphones, smart phones, wireless access points,and computers. Data needs to be independent of a location and needs to be shared easily. Two recent examples are the emergency situations after 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina where emergency services needed to share info rapidly, independently, and needed to edit and update information and share it in real time across many states, agencies, and formats. The ODNI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has sought to coordinate and share classified surveillance information in a peer-to-peer collaborative network. Since 2005 they set up Intellipedia which is similar to the popular wiki, Wikipedia. Intellipedia allows people from all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies to link and communicate. It is referred to the "spooks wiki" by the intelligence community. Of course, it is not available to the public. The tool allows for sharing, creating, editing, and discussing in an online space; all qualities of a wiki.

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 * 1) **Draw points across the examples to conclude with some general points.**
 * 2) **What is good about the points we come to? What could use work and presents an opportunity for future tools?**
 * 3) **What is coming in the future. As Web 2.0 surges and peaks in the mainstream what will be the next generation of web trends and learning technologies? Namely, how will the confluence of the "[|Internet of Things] ," Micro-blogging, Real-time Web, Mobile Web, Augmented Reality take us from "read only" to "read-write" to "read-write-reality" or 'read-write-execute'?
 * **A move away from** A**synchronous tool and a move towards real time platform, the Semantic Web 3.0
 * Summarize article "Taking the 'A' out of Asynchronous" campus technology [|article] and look for more current tools post 2008
 * google wave
 * google docs
 * comapping, mindmeister, bubbl.us
 * Skype and Etherpad