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Lack of Collaborative Information Intelligence?
May 29, 2003

K-Praxis has tried to track the need, use and spread of information processing in the various fields, now this new study from CIA suggests that there is a lack of coordination and under-utilization of commercially available information technologies that aid in information management, retrieval and exploitation...

One maxim that has stood the test of time, especially in hard economic climate, is to understand real-life use-cases of information processing, retrieval and exploitation technologies and not to "invent" use-cases that do not really exist. And one natural use case for these technologies is the need to derive actionable information intelligence for various government related security activities.

One such unclassified report posted on CIA website indicates (http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol47no1/article07.html) that there has been a lack of coordination in using plethora of new technologies to manage information. The report also indicates that the agency could have done more to actively and collaboratively fulfill its information intelligence needs.

See earlier articles regarding this topic:

Information Management and Crime Investigation

What is Actionable Information?

	Making sense of online textual information and information management technologies

	Lack of Collaborative Information Intelligence? May 29, 2003 K-Praxis has tried to track the need, use and spread of information processing in the various fields, now this new study from CIA suggests that there is a lack of coordination and under-utilization of commercially available information technologies that aid in information management, retrieval and exploitation... One maxim that has stood the test of time, especially in hard economic climate, is to understand real-life use-cases of information processing, retrieval and exploitation technologies and not to "invent" use-cases that do not really exist. And one natural use case for these technologies is the need to derive actionable information intelligence for various government related security activities. One such unclassified report posted on CIA website indicates (http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol47no1/article07.html) that there has been a lack of coordination in using plethora of new technologies to manage information. The report also indicates that the agency could have done more to actively and collaboratively fulfill its information intelligence needs. See earlier articles regarding this topic: Information Management and Crime Investigation What is Actionable Information?