PING PONG

PING PONG by Brian Kelly | Dec 15, 2006 | General | 2 comments I recently attended a joint JISC/UKOLN/CETIS awayday meeting. One of the issues which arose in the discussion group I participated in was the boundaries between personal services, institutional services and national services. Scott Wilson (CETIS) suggested the acronym PING (personal, institutional, national and global). In response I proposed PONG (personal, organisational, national and global). An alternative would be DING and DONG (distributed institutional/organisational, national and global). The PING PONG debate will, no doubt, be bounced between UKOLN and CETIS. (Note UKOLN has its Christmas lunch yesterday, and I have probably been reading too many Christmas cracker jokes and puns). 2 Comments David Newman on December 18, 2006 at 12:12 pm PING, PONG, DING and DONG all miss the most important groupings: the inter-organizational team and communities of practice. These are made up of people from different universities, and no university, but all working together towards the same ends. Yet try and get software licensed for such a group that crosses institutional boundaries, and see how hard it is.

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