Anyone who’s read our blog knows at AboutUs we’re fans of not just wiki, but any type of collaborative technology. Encumbered as we were this week by snow, we had some time and wanted to share some interesting uses of these tools around the world:
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police looking at wiki software – Article in the Vancouver Sun about the efforts of the British Columbia’s division of the RCMP to look into using a wiki to update the force’s intelligence information. A similar wiki, Intellipedia, has been in use here in America by the U.S. Intelligence Community (including the DOD, State Department and CIA) for several years.
• Collaborative technology in the dairy industry – Interesting story from Computer Weekly on how dairy giant (and Oregon-based cooperative) Tillamook Country Creamery Association recently started using collaborative technology to connect and share information with their 150+ farmer-owned dairies and 600+ employees.
• Internet and Online Collaborative Educational Initiatives in Mexico and India – Blog post today on online community initiatives for educational resources in Mexico and India from the folks at the Appropedia Blog. Appropedia, for those who’ve never visited it, is a wiki for “collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development” around the world.
• More on Wiki-fying the Obama administation – We’ve posted a few times about the growing movement to bring collaborative transparency to the incoming presidency. Over on her weblog, Wikia co-founder Angela Beesley has a post on a third-party iniative to provide “The Unofficial Wiki for Change.gov“. There’s also a rehash of how the Obama campaign and transition team have transformed web-based politics in this week’s PCWorld.
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Hey Tak,
Thanks for posting the nice shout out to Appropedia and for the great work AboutUs does pushing collaborative technologies, especially wikis, forward.
-Lonny