The author points out the gap between IT and domain knowledge. As a result, many IT teams delve in architechture design but do not understand the business processes that their tools should support. This gap can only be bridged by training more specialists in both IT and domain knowledge.

Timo Hannay provides a summary and brief evaluation of web 2.0 technologies and how they could be used as platforms in the scientific discourse.

Geoinformatics represents an effort to link a vast, geographically distributed, diffuse and relatively uncoordinated set of existing projects into a genuine infrastructure that is envisioned to provide highly reliable, widely accessible capabilities and services in support of scientific work, with the aim to facilitate distributed collaboration, democratize the research environment, and empower cross-boundary and interdisciplinary scholarship. While the vision of cyberinfrastructure is becoming increasingly comprehensive and well defined, the path to achieve this vision is still vague and its controls poorly understood.