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Loading ...I met the guy who put together the first Wiki for the Intelligence community so I guess the logical next step would of course be a social network for spies, operators, and analysts: “A-Space will initially be voluntary to assuage worries of spies concerned about blowing their cover.” Via Techmeme & the FT
“Spies and teenagers normally have little in common but that is about to change as America’s intelligence agencies prepare to launch “A-Space”, an internal communications tool modelled on the popular social networking sites, Facebook and MySpace.
The Director of National Intelligence will open the site to the entire intelligence community in December. The move is the latest part of an ongoing effort to transform the analytical business following the failure to detect the 9/11 terrorist attacks or find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Thomas Fingar, the deputy director of national intelligence for analysis, believes the common workspace – a kind of “MySpace for analysts” – will generate better analysis by breaking down firewalls across the traditionally stove-piped intelligence community. He says the technology can also help process increasing amounts of information where the number of analysts is limited.” Via Techmeme & the FT
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