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Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community (IC). It was established as a "community of interest" around the need to use wiki technology to improve information sharing among agencies within the IC. It was created by a CIA analyst named Carmen Medina, who initially faced resistance due to security concerns. However, she persisted and was able to successfully implement Intellipedia. Today, it serves as a key resource for intelligence agencies, allowing for instant publication and sharing of findings over the classified internet.
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In the early 1990s a young CIA analyst came back from a three-year assignment in Europe with a radical idea: instead of taking days or even weeks to produce paper reports, why not publish findings instantly and share them over the intelligence community's classified internet? Carmen Medina's ground-breaking idea was quickly shot down, slammed for being a security risk. Less than a decade after her initial failure, Medina was central to the creation of Intellipedia, an internal Wikipedia that has become a key resource for intelligence agencies. How did she do it?
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