How an Internet-Scale Cross Organization Anti-Terrorism Knowledge Network would work
Dan Gillmor is onto the right approach to improve our society's immunological defense against terrorism. I have an idea on how to get our nation's governmental organizations to work together to improve their responsiveness to acts of terrorism. K-Log knowledge networks.
Here's how. The new Homeland Security office would establish a nationwide knowledge repository on a large Intranet. Access to this knowledge base would be given to federal, state, and local agencies. There could even be limited access given to individuals.
Everyone in government would be given a K-Log desktop tool to publish reports from distributed locations to this Intranet knowledge-base. RSS Web service enabled data feeds and K-Log feeds would be available to every participant based on access level.
Knowledge network functionality would be built to provide data on recent updates, hotlists, traffic, subscription availability and other items. Access control would limit the degree of data searchable although most data would be available to all particpants. Search services would be provided by Google.
This solution could scale to meet the needs of the entire country. All published K-Logs would be statically rendered and served by Apache servers. Guidelines on how to post to the system would be published to limit spurious data. Ad hoc connections would develop through RSS subscriptions.
For example: I could use the system to get a knowledge stream from a specific local police organization or health organization to monitor how a specific bioterrorism case was being handled at the local level. The RSS feed I get from these local organizations could then be annotated and included on my K-Log for the benefit of my readers or to add my domain knowledge to the community.
Seems to me like we need this. No other solution has the ease-of-use, scalability, and power this has. Specific tools or centrally managed/designed systems would break down and fall into disuse. Better yet, I could probably build the system for less than $25 m (less than what was spent on many .coms). [John Robb's Radio Weblog] - Wow, K-Logs for everybody and everything including "the war on terrorism"! This makes sense to me.
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