Mikel Maron is experimenting with wikis inside the United Nations system, and it seems to be going pretty well!

This is a pretty new approach for the UNDP, but the signs at this early stage are already positive. The start is purposefully small […] if it’s successful, the hope is for organic growth into different working groups (rather than top-down dictations of appropriate technology). There’s been intranets and workspaces and complicated initiatives galore, yet the primary way collaboration occurs is within word documents attached to email! We’ll be watching to see how it develops over the next few months; at this point, what the wiki becomes depends on the organizational culture shift.

Link

They seem to have all these huge and expensive apps, and people still collaborate with emails. Then wiki comes in at a very reasonable price and the true changes in mentalities finally happen. Amazing!

(thx for the link nico)

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