Wednesday, June 30, 2010

U.S. Department of State and Rice University Release Joint Study of Diplopedia

U.S. Department of State and Rice University Release Joint Study of Diplopedia: "U.S. Department of State and Rice University Release Joint Study of Diplopedia

Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
May 21, 2010

A new study released by U.S. Department of State’s Office of eDiplomacy in the Bureau of Information Resource Management and Rice University looks at the five-year history of creating and implementing the Department’s use of the Wikipedia-styled diplomacy Web 2.0 tool, Diplopedia.

Diplopedia is the U.S. State Department's internal knowledge sharing platform – an internal, unclassified, open source wiki platform of 'how-to' knowledge for America's diplomatic corps.

The paper, “Diplopedia Imagined: Building State’s Diplomacy Wiki,” is being presented at the 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems in Chicago by its coauthors Tiffany Smith, a State Department employee in its Bureau of Information Resource Management and Chris Bronk, a fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute Public Policy and lecturer in Rice's Department of Computer Science."

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