I’m not an expert in law enforcement or military intelligence, but I have heard that the biggest issues making it difficult to share information are both cultural and organizational. Many of those organizations are designed not to share information. Protecting information, especially in those environments is often part of what makes the information valuable.

However, when these groups do WANT to share information it is often very difficult, for the systems have followed the policies of the organizations. They are designed to prevent information sharing. Common tools and methods for secure sharing of information would be valuable to help solve this part of the problem.  A lot of money is being spent to tackle this problem, such as the $20B+  Networx Universal contract from the GSA of which recently about $1B was awarded to interconnect the the various units of the Department of Homeland Security.

It’s this secure sharing that is so much more difficult than the social network web sites of today are building.  In MVaaS, you want to share only with whom you choose.  As the concept of MVaaS matures secure sharing will become one of the key values that MVaaS delivers.

Rob Hagens predicts that those standards are more likely to arrive out of an open, organic, open software that works approach rather than a centralized, 100lb standards documentation approach. In this way the process of creating defacto standards this way mimics the information sharing goal. What a great way to get where you are going!