Intellipedia on the Block?

Colleague Marc Ambinder posted yesterday an item on his Politics blog on The Atlantic's Web site that the intelligence community is pulling the plug on uGov, "one of its earliest efforts at cross-agency collaboration," Ambinder wrote.

The reason: security concerns about its open source platform. The decision, which intel officials announced to employees on Oct. 2, has drawn criticism from those who have relied on the collaborative tool and has raised concerns that other information sharing platforms like the often-praised Intellipedia -- the intelligence community's wiki site -- will be nixed, too.

In one e-mail Nextgov received, the sender wrote, "DNI is working to destroy a working system. Info sharing will slowly die because of this attitude...."

From Ambinder's blog:

UGov has been especially popular among the large tranche of analysts who joined the community after 9/11. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) runs the network.

Already, analysts have contributed to a "save uGov" wiki on a communitywide network which, unless you're got access to the secret network, you can't access at this url: https://www.intelink.gov/wiki/Save_uGov.