Diplopedia

It is also available to the United States intelligence community and other national-security related organizations using the Intelink-U network as a mirrored, read-only archive.

Under that plan, personnel utilized Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, communities, and virtual work environments to provide diplomacy to areas that have been underrepresented.

Diplopedia provides a desk officer manual, advising them on everything from what to make of Department jargon, how to move a paper for decision, or how to navigate a new Ambassador through the complexities of Senate confirmation and assignment to his or her mission.

Forty briefing portals help Department employees find and contribute information on specific programs, economic issues, and international politics.

Recent additions are part of a working space for foreign policy experts to share and collate information that underpins the Department's efforts to address a major global issue which encompasses economic, political, human rights and population concerns.

Congressional testimony from Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia,[11] notes the difference between vertical and horizontal information sharing and suggests that both could be successful e-government endeavors.