One doesn’t usually think of Wiki’s when thinking of the United Nations but in a recent article in Newsweek (read the article) it was reported that, the United Nations "…has embraced a once fringe social technology—the wiki—in hopes that it will help staff in 80 countries share information and reach consensus with less deliberation and more speed."

The article further explains,

Wiki software—easy-to-use programs that let anyone with Internet access create, remove and edit content on a Web page—first gained popularity thanks to Wikipedia, the user-generated encyclopedia that has come to be hailed as one of the Web’s greatest resources. Now the technology is increasingly spreading outside the world of tech geeks and into the mainstream, being adopted by workplaces, corporations and even governments.

This is great news for Enterprise Wiki’s such as CoActLive where the emphasis is on ease-of-use and focused business-grade services.  With companies in the mainstream beginning to embrace this technology with solutions similar to the United Nations effort, CoActLive is perfectly positioned to take advantage of this growth trend in a worldwide industry.

In what has been identified as the wiki workplace " … a growing number of organizations have begun shifting from traditional hierarchical structures to self-organized and collaborative networks, using wiki software—a basket of technologies that include wikis, blogs and other tools—to foster innovation across organizational and geographic boundaries." 

The article further states, "Executives say the new tools make it easier for teams to collaborate and share information, and to get projects up and running on the fly. ‘Collaborative software has become a very important part of how businesses will invent and innovate,’ says Ken Bisconti, IBM’s vice president of messaging and collaboration software."

There is no doubt, we are headed toward a wiki-enabled workplace!