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Bureaupedia is a wiki used internally at the FBI with the intention of capturing the knowledge of senior agents and reduce knowledge loss due to retirement.
Bureaupedia's existence was revealed in a September 2008 article in ''
An earlier wiki,
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FBI officials see Bureaupedia as a knowledge management
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tool that will let agents and analysts share their experiences to ensure that their accumulated insight remains after they retire. The project is a collaborative effort between the FBI's chief knowledge officer and chief technology officer.
Critiques
An earlier wiki, Intellipedia
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, had been established for similar purposes across the U.S. government's 16 intelligence agencies including the FBI, and it has been suggested that FBI staff should use that one instead of the new smaller-scope Bureaupedia.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales
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noted in testimony to Congress differences between vertical and horizontal information sharing and suggested that both could be successful e-government endeavors.
See also
*Intellipedia
Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community (IC). It was established as a pilot project in late 2005 and formally announced in April 2006. Intellipedia consists of three w ...
* Diplopedia
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* DoDTechipedia
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References
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