Yet another thing that reached my desk about a month late: a publication from the Post-Conflict Reconstruction program of the CSIS. Rebecca Linder (who I met last year at the National Defense University (don’t ask) has pulled together a variety of material to try and marry the world of social networking with that of post-conflict, civil-military type knowledge management. I’m not entirely convinced - I think the social and organisational obstacles are a much larger problem than the paper makes out - but I need to read it again when I’m not in Hong Kong airport to comment properly.

However this report is important because it builds on a few important ideas (particularly those described by Anne Holohan in her excellent book Networks of Democracy) and comes from a well-regarded think tank in the US. You can download the pdf of Wikis, Webs and Networks directly, and visit the blog post announcing the publication.