THE HUB

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THE HUB

• Building Post-Conflict Networks and Knowledge
• National Defense University
• October 27, 2005
• Rebecca Linder
• Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project
• Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Hub Concept

• Connect communities
• Diplomatic, development, humanitarian, military,
  private security, and academic communities in
  U.S. and abroad
• Foster greater unity of goals, plans, and
  language
• Promote efficiency prevent overlap and
  stovepipes
• Develop integrated planning and learning
  mechanisms
• Improve cooperation, coordination, and
  integration through information sharing

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Why the Hub?

• Thousands of soldiers, civilians, journalists,
  private contractors, academics and others have
  experience in conflict-prone settings.
• Their expertise does not always inform other
  operations many important lessons learned are
  not realized in practice.
• The key players often do not have a means to
  share expertise and best practices.

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Iraq200 Billion
2.15 million U.S. servicemembers deployed for
Peacekeeping Operations since 1945
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Why now?

• Growing complexity of challenge
• More players, studies, experiences
• Technology potential is expanding
• Traditional institutions are lagging

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What is Needed?

• Easier access to information
• Connectivity between players institutions
• Real time interactivity
• Streamlined way to acquire information
• Common playbook

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Benefits of the Hub

• Greater connectivity for an expanding universe of
  players
• Enriches the network (formal informal) of
  people/organizations involved in stability
  operations
• Enhanced communication, coordination, planning,
  and collaboration using existing and newly
  emerging technologies

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Improved Proficiency in Post-Conflict
Reconstruction
Unrealized Potential
Improved with the Hub
Performance
Current Proficiency
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Time
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Who Are We Connecting?

• Diplomatic, development, humanitarian, military,
• private sector, and academic communities
• Policymakers
• Planners
• Practitioners/Operators
• Local people
• Indigenous groups
• Change agents
• Scholars

U.S., international, and host nation
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CSIS Methodology

• Locate key players
• Conduct surveys, interviews, and focus groups to
  identify needs and constraints
• Assess constraints related to integration,
  interoperability, security and access,
  technological limitations, institutional
  resistance
• Take a multi-sectoral/integrated approach to
  break out of stovepipes

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Technology Infrastructure

• Portal
• Wiki
• Calendar of Events
• Peer-to-peer
• Email
• Open and secured access
• Quality control and open forum
• Different languages
• 911/411 feature

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Content Resources

• Newsletters
• Experts online (Reachback)
• Survey of websites
• Related Bibliographies
• Reports from the field
• Larger studies
• Lessons learned reports
• Book reviews
• Blogs

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Workings of the Hub

• Openness
• Quality control (user-rated)
• Low maintenance
• Resides on a non dot-mil domain

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Questions/Comments?
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Contact Information

• Rebecca Linder
• Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project
• International Security Program
• Center for Strategic and International Studies
• 1800 K Street NW
• Washington, DC 20006
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email rlinder_at_csis.org