Maritime Community and Social Media
Shipmates,
gCaptain recently had a post on Coast Guard modernization and web 2.0. It caught our attention because of the linkages he makes between Modernization and our continuing effort to understand the potential that social media provides for collaboration. As gCaptain notes the model works internally and externally.
Internally, Rear Admiral Tom Ostebo has provided guest posts on the need to link our IT infrastructure improvements with logistics transformation. Our aviation community succeeded in linking IT and logistics transformation in the 1980's. While this preceded social media (as it is understood today) that transformation effectively created a social network within our aviation community but added a data rich environment that made configuration, supply, and maintenance information transparent to the entire workforce. It also linked the end user and support organization through the concept of platform management where there is a single point of accountability for each air frame.
Externally, we are seeing the convergence of IT and collaboration through the rapidly expanding use of the Maritime Safety and Security Information System (another overview here) (MSSIS) developed at the DOT's Volpe Center. This simple application allows partners to (1) share Automated Information System (AIS) data and (2) compare AIS information with open sources to detect anomalies in ship data (registry, homeport, etc).
I believe there are significant opportunities ahead to simplify and facilitate the way in which we interact with the maritime community. From information provided to the mariner to seeking comment and vetting issues associated with rulemakings, we can produce better products and do it faster.
Our challenge is to synchronize our current activities, priority setting, investments, and organizational changes associated with modernization and seek opportunities to insert IT and social networks as a means to be more effective. It isn't easy because we have no relief from the day to day demands of operations and maintenance. That said we can't afford not to do this.
It will require our entire organization, top to bottom, to understand the opportunity that is within our grasp and seize it.
ADM A
gCaptain recently had a post on Coast Guard modernization and web 2.0. It caught our attention because of the linkages he makes between Modernization and our continuing effort to understand the potential that social media provides for collaboration. As gCaptain notes the model works internally and externally.
Internally, Rear Admiral Tom Ostebo has provided guest posts on the need to link our IT infrastructure improvements with logistics transformation. Our aviation community succeeded in linking IT and logistics transformation in the 1980's. While this preceded social media (as it is understood today) that transformation effectively created a social network within our aviation community but added a data rich environment that made configuration, supply, and maintenance information transparent to the entire workforce. It also linked the end user and support organization through the concept of platform management where there is a single point of accountability for each air frame.
Externally, we are seeing the convergence of IT and collaboration through the rapidly expanding use of the Maritime Safety and Security Information System (another overview here) (MSSIS) developed at the DOT's Volpe Center. This simple application allows partners to (1) share Automated Information System (AIS) data and (2) compare AIS information with open sources to detect anomalies in ship data (registry, homeport, etc).
I believe there are significant opportunities ahead to simplify and facilitate the way in which we interact with the maritime community. From information provided to the mariner to seeking comment and vetting issues associated with rulemakings, we can produce better products and do it faster.
Our challenge is to synchronize our current activities, priority setting, investments, and organizational changes associated with modernization and seek opportunities to insert IT and social networks as a means to be more effective. It isn't easy because we have no relief from the day to day demands of operations and maintenance. That said we can't afford not to do this.
It will require our entire organization, top to bottom, to understand the opportunity that is within our grasp and seize it.
ADM A
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