It is interesting to speculate whether or not it will be the new technology that will drive the publishing world. I have a strong suspicion that it will be the mighty power of the publishers that will force the technology into a form that is mature enough to serve their purposes. I hope you address the issue of how decentralized organizations should ensure and maintain quality in the publications they produce. Everyone will agree that it is impossible to monitor and screen the production of scientific information in a large organization. No one wishes to stifle creativity and one of the essential characteristics of information in any case is the inability to suppress it.
Information permeates structures.
We do not have such walls any longer, but it still remains an impossible task to contain information. Perhaps the only answer is one of persuasion and socializing the members of the organization into the correct form of producing and publishing information. It still concerns me that some of the material we produce has not gone through the time-honored process that transforms a manuscript into the work of art that is a good book. Our scientific publications should be of the highest quality, while nonscientific publications serve different purposes and may be of a lesser quality. I hope you address seriously how there can be copublishing across the Organization, and how there can be an agile mechanism for sharing information on all aspects of publishing.