Kwangmyong
As a wonderful illustration of Tony Cliff’s insight that a state capitalist social formation is very much like a single, massive capitalist enterprise, it turns out that North Korea has something that every modern capitalist company must have: an intranet. According to this Economist article (via Marmot), it is called Kwangmyong and even has online dating, of a sort.
I wonder whether it has features that every good intranet should have, like perhaps a company staff survey, a motivational message from the CEO (actually I’m sure it has plenty of those) and maybe even its own (non-collaborative) wikis providing on-the-spot guidance from management.
Thanks for the Cliff link, I find it helpful.
Comment by $ — February 9, 2007 @ 4:07 am