PING PONG

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.

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Yet try and get software licensed for such a group that crosses institutional boundaries, and see how hard it is.