This was interesting for lots of reasons... The Power to the Edges paper ....and now the push for the end of stove piped organizations...
The main obstacles to Net-Centric transformation in fact are not technology....
DoD Deputy CIO, Priscilla Guthrie, has said, "The idea is to move from...a dissemination-based IT infrastructure ...to a pull-based environment. ... Anyone is both the center and the edge. The idea is that when I need data that someone else has, I should be able to pull that data. I don't have to be in a specific location to do it. I shouldn't have to be required to do it at a specific time. But I should be able to pull the data I need, when I need it. That's what we mean by power to the edge. That's a significant transformation...."
No more portals or brands. In an advocacy sense this is the creative commons release of informaiton content and campaign ideas. Stop building protals start serving the needs of users regarless of membership, staff size, group affiliation. The wisdom here is not new but it should be applied to campaign efforts and foundations. The entire chain of advocacy needs to be designed so that as the casual user wishes to engage in the effort to foster social change the skills, tools, funding fuel and professional insights are available to them. We must stop locing the diesing into the process which fosters new think tanks, hubs and other new brands" to merely become the gateways to power and access and tryely mve the power and funding out along the push pull systems to the end users.
