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The most successful Web 2.0 initiatives are going to be those tied to the agency’s mission, said Michael Wertheimer, assistant deputy director and chief technology officer for analysis at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. ODNI’s Intellipedia is among the first in government to break down the internal barriers between management and workers to share ideas and information without the risk of penalty.

Intellipedia is breaking all the cultural rules of the intelligence community, Wertheimer said at the June 3 conference sponsored by NAPA and Deloitte.
A few years ago, if someone from the CIA called the National Security Agency asking for information, the phone would have been passed to a supervisor for approval, he said. “Now we have an age where we have wikis up and we’re building communities-of-interest sites and connecting people everywhere,” Wertheimer said.

“It breaks down every notion of security and counterintelligence and every conceivable bias you have that the information is more valuable not being shared than shared because of sources and methods,” he said.