Intranet for everyone or how the future begins in school

We published the first version of the Intranet article for everyone in Computer World Romania magazine from 16 to 30 September 1997 and was then probably one of the first articles on this topic in Romania.

The theme of the article was then and we would like to keep it in this update as we create an Intranet with zero or minimum costs for our organization and if it is possible to democratize these Intranet philosophies, so intranet for all.

We're updating this article to address the challenge of launching a strategy that is worthy of the Sharepoint-based Intranet name for everyone.

I was saying in the first version of the article that in medicine there is the principle "do not worry first" and that in the domain of information it is good to start first with what is free. What we have to do is just accept the challenge. Can we make a project by which to recover all the bottlenecks so far and eventually position ourselves in advance to the information society and the knowledge society as we actually deserve to be the promoters of the world of cybernetics?

There is a saying that says, "If you want to prosper a year, then cultivate grain. If you want to prosper for ten years, plant trees. If you want to prosper for a lifetime, raise (educate) people. "So we should start with education. If we want to introduce Intranet technology to all companies and organizations in Romania, the "Intranet for All" project must start in school.

What we are proposing is to take full advantage of the MS for education and to create the best strategy to get the greatest benefits from this offer in the future. The educational premise is that the intranet is the best ecosystem for an educational environment and its knowledge of the most important asset for a future employee. The intranet can become the pinnacle of digital society's transformation.

Let's look at the Office 365 Education Plans and their pricing and create a strategy to take advantage of every student in each school and then through the whole school, somewhere in the future, the whole of society. Digital school will prepare the cadres who go to organizations, corporations, SMEs or NGOs to create those Digital Workplace where productivity, communication and creativity are maximized.

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Office 365 Education is FREE for Students and Students and FREE for Teachers. All it takes is the strategy that each school makes the most of this unique opportunity. It can be the basis in the future of an increase in productivity and collaboration across the business environment and in all organizations in Romania.

So two principles: start first with what is free and obviously take full advantage and start with school first, but with all the school, with all the schools and with all the educational actors: students, students, teachers, parents, inspectorate, ministry.

When it came to intranet technology, it was presented as the future of enterprises because it was more than just a technological leap, a change of paradigm whose lines of force had mentioned Naisibit in Megatrends.

He said that the biggest advantages of the intranet are not the linear ones, which can be calculated by increasing productivity, communication and collaboration, but those that result from the fact that he changes the working philosophy of the enterprise with a completely new one. John Naisibit, in Megatrends, in the chapter "From hierarchies to networks," says networks provide what bureaucracies can never offer - namely, the horizontal link. From a structural point of view, the most important thing about a network is that each individual is at the center of it. All this perfectly matches intranet technology. Naisibit also says, "In retailers, rewards come from the power of everyone, not from the power of putting aside others." He anticipates that in the future the institutions will be organized according to a network-based style of leadership.

The Romanesque School needs a national strategy that can maximize the benefits and start by making the most of everything that is free. The school itself is undergoing day-to-day major transformations in which competition becomes global. It seemed unimaginable a decade ago that you can reach the highly expensive courses of the world's top universities, but today Orcines can hear on mobile, in trolley or in a waiting room, free classes at MIT, Harvard, or another prestigious university in the world with the most reputable teachers and collaborating with thousands of colleagues from around the world.

If we do not have a strategy, our students will adhere to the strategies of others with effects that can not be predicted. Global Learning is a true tsunami that is already happening: The Online Course report shows that the number of online free MOOC courses, Massive Open Online Courses has risen from 160,000 students to one university in 2011 to 35,000,000 students at 570 universities and 12 lectures in 2015. The Romanian School urgently needs a strategy in which leadership is based on network modeling, organization, relationship with parents and inspectorate, acquisitions, communication based on networks. At the heart of this philosophy must be a nucleus, and this is the Intranet of the school, a Sharepoint-based intranet. The intranet will be the object of study and support of school activities, of all activities in school, including didactic and administrative and communication activities. The school will learn to relate with the providers, and with parents, another important actor of the educational act through the extranet.

The Romanian School urgently needs a strategy in which leadership is based on network modeling, organization, relationship with parents and inspectorate, acquisitions, communication based on networks. At the heart of this philosophy must be a nucleus, and this is the Intranet of the school, a Sharepoint-based intranet. The intranet will be the object of study and support of school activities, of all activities in school, including didactic and administrative and communication activities. The school will learn to relate with the providers, and with parents, another important actor of the educational act through the extranet. School, each school could then go out of school not only with the school site but also with other project sites. With publishing features of SharePoint Server 2013, we can publish sites in the Internet, Intranet, and Extranet.

In order to achieve the qualitative leap that is done by moving to an intranet working philosophy, we have to say that the intranet favors and strengthens feedback connections in the system, connections that represent the cohesion of a system and whose absence transforms it into a system with a cumbersome bureaucracy and totalitarian leadership capable of bankruptcy of any enterprise. Absence of feedback is an element of the enterprise's negative culture.
Intranet is a reliable network and "networks - says Adrian Restian, a Romanian specialist in cybernetic medicine - are anti-entropic mechanisms."

Intranet articles typically feature an impressive technical arsenal that seems to require a great technical training and spending on super-servers and firewalls. However, the best solution for switching to intranet / Internet solutions is "start small, scale fast". SharePoint Online is the solution that we can create in each school an Intranet as the core of a national digital trasformation strategy that prepares us for the web economy.

The Novel School must team with MS Sharepoint. Imagine what would mean, for example, the use of only one collaboration tool in Romanian schools: Microsoft Teams. Students could also study in virtual study teams, Teachers could team up with students on study subjects, make teams of excellence run by the school head, the inspectorate, and the ministry would form working teams with directors and teachers. The school principal could arrange meetings with committee chairmen