"The researchers are confronting the problem of how agencies can manage the great volume of material they post online. Through a Google search, the research group found there are 368 million Web pages under the federal .gov domain alone. The authors propose using Wiki software to ease the burden of handling all this material."
That's the rationale... Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Casey Dougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:04 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: eGovernment and Wiki's --- anyone making Wiki's with CF? > > > "Researchers recommend Wikis for government information" > > I could somewhat understand how these "researchers" came up with this > plan but seems all a bit too far fetched. As it stands it seems > everyone is responsible for their own web space. Are all .gov sites > managed in one central server farm of sorts? > > Are they looking to centralize everything so they can control it all > from one central nerve centre? Are they looking to consolidate > hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of websites? Yeah this is > easy if your in China and the government runs it all - Please do not > take offence to that, in retrospect it must be easier for the > government to manage it's information when it's all controlled by one > source. > > Personally I recommend going with one coldfusion portal to manage all > government information or lack their of it "Centralizes", one set of > training courses for their editors, one set of administrators to > manage all of the servers, and one.gov to be the 1 domain which > manages it all. So is this going to make our taxes go up? > > Wait, with some creative cfhttp and this could happen without changing > a thing! Let everyone have their own websites, keep local developers > working, local service providers, umm... providing, and us checking > local just like we buy local. > > Oh wait I live in USA we don't buy local! > > > Casey > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229306 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
