EUR LAUNCHES INTELLIPEDIA INITIATIVE

UNCLAS STATE 016668 SIPDIS SIPDIS PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO ALL REPORTING OFFICERS AND STAFF THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST SEE PARAGRAPHS 3 AND 4 E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: AMGT AINF PGOV ECON SUBJECT: EUR LAUNCHES INTELLIPEDIA INITIATIVE REF: SECSTATE 170388 ¶1. (U) LAUNCH OF EUR HOME PAGE: At the October 2006 DCM conference, I learned about Intellipedia - a new technology resource that can help the State Department advance policy more effectively, as well as saving time and money. Following that conference, I asked a small EUR Web team to develop a page for the bureau in partnership with the Bureau of Resource Management (RM). The result is the Intellipedia EUR Home Page on the classified side. EUR Home Page creates an interagency library of policy; gives officers in the field a better sense of what Washington is saying; saves officers time, provides EUR users a single entry point to all classified intranet sites; and increases communication with the interagency. ¶2. (U) What makes Intellipedia revolutionary is that it is completely decentralized: anyone in the USG with a Secret/Noforn clearance can view, change, and add SIPDIS information. Linked to the EUR Home Page is a specific site for every EUR country, which embassies and desks can work together to update. And since EUR often deals with policy on the rest of the world, we also created a Hot Topics tab that Washington can use to give the field the pulse on economic, justice, European enlargement, and other foreign policy issues. Action Requests -------------- ¶3. (U) We are asking that all EUR posts transfer content from their classified Portal X sites to the appropriate country Intellipedia site by March 31, after which time our systems staff will shut down all the Portal X sites remotely. (See the Turkey, Italy, and Cyprus portals in Intellipedia for examples of successful transitions.) ¶4. (U) We are also asking economic and political officers to use the SIPDIS caption on all reporting cables, except when there,s a specific justification a cable should not be circulated with the interagency community, such as a message containing information protected by the privacy act. Using the SIPDIS caption will publish cables to the Net-Centric Diplomacy System, which has a variety of user-friendly search functions. Moreover, it will also enable users to automatically load SIPDIS-captioned messages with specific keyword combinations or future incoming cables, such as demarche responses (Reftel),in Intellipedia. ¶5. (U) HOW TO FIND OUT MORE: I will discuss this initiative further with DCMs at the upcoming February 25-28 conference. RM is currently sending training CDs out to many EUR posts for those officers interested in 30-40 minutes of training ) ask your IMO. For the basics on how to create an Intellipedia log-on, load documents, etc, see the EUR Home Page to download the &Intellipedia Log-in Guide8 and &Intellipedia for Diplomats.8 Finally, ask your Desk Officers, who are all receiving hands-on training in the coming month, questions when they come out for consultations. See Reftel from the Deputy Secretary for more about the advantages of using Intellipedia. Still have questions? Please email EUR/ERA Nicole Otallah or Intellipedia Help@state.sgov.gov. RICE