Diplomats use wikis and blogs to share vital information
The State Department is transforming internal communications by implementing open-source technology and putting it behind a firewall.
Unlike most other federal agencies, the State Department for many years took pride in its lack of technological advancement. On easing the State Department into a technological transition, career diplomat Richard Boly first asked, "Here's a group that is historically risk averse by design, and we're asking them to make a change that is diametrically opposed to what they've grown throughout their career doing. How do we go about that?"
Enter the Office of eDiplomacy... Read the whole story at Nextgov.com.
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