The Open Government Directive Workshop: February 2010
Next workshop in the series:
***The USDA is the host of the April 28th public Open Government Directive Workshop.***
The final results of the teams' collaborations are now available for download at the top of the OpenGov Playbook. Additional information created by each team is here:
Invitation to the Feb 17th Workshop:
The February Open Government Directive Workshop will be more focused than our previous workshops. Participants will organize into three competing teams. **To register**, please reply to the following two questions at the bottom of this GovLoop page in 3-5 sentences by February 16th. (Please note: This RSVP deadline is for the public sector only; the private sector RSVP deadline has passed).
You may pay for your lunch here, and then you'll be contacted by a team leader. Here is a link to the team rosters which will be updated daily. Full details are below.
Full Invitation
You're invited to the February Open Government Directive Workshop at the Charles Sumner Museum and Conference Center (17th and M Street NW, Washington, DC-- see the map). The workshop will take place from 9am-4:30pm on February 17th. RSVP is required (instructions are below).
We're pleased to put this workshop together with our partners: the General Services Administration, the National Academy of Public Administration, GovLoop, and the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation. Alex Moll will be our professional facilitator. OpenGovTV is providing live streaming video from 2pm-4:30pm during the event on this page.
We have a great program planned. Building off the January 11th workshop at the US Department of Transportation, we are going to transition from divergent thinking to convergent thinking. This workshop will be focused on creating specific ideas that agencies can drop into their actual open government plans which are due on April 7th. Some agencies are farther along than others, so this workshop will help spread good ideas from one agency to the next.
This workshop will be different.
Dubbed the "OpenGov Superbowl" by Steve Ressler (a.k.a. Mr. GovLoop), this workshop will be highly productive and engaging. We are using a framework of competitive collaboration to surface the best ideas. There will be four teams with fifteen participants each. Teams will work in separate spaces for four hours and then a few representatives will present the team's work to a panel of judges at the end of the workshop. Judges will be high-ranking thought leaders from the public sector.
Timeline
8:30am Coffee and networking
9:00am Convene all teams in the main room
9:30am Teams begin working in breakout rooms
12:15pm Lunch
1:00pm Teams continue working in breakout rooms
3:00pm Teams present their ideas to the judges in the main room (streamed live here)
4:15pm Conclusion
4:30pm End
5:00pm Happy Hour sponsored by Acquia
How to RSVP
Attending this workshop costs $10 so we can pay for your lunch and coffee (Please pay online here).
Contact Stephen Buckley to join the Online Team which will be meeting on February 17th.
What you can do before the workshop
Whether you will be present or not on February 17th, we would love to have your help in building this ist of resources for federal managers who are writing their open government plans. This list will help workshop participants sift through all the useful resources that are already posted across the Web. Feel free to email your links and documents to notes@opengovplaybook.org or drop them right into this page on the OpenGov Playbook.
The three volunteer team leaders for the in-person teams are Rachel Lunsford (VA), David Kuehn (DOT) and Chris Jones (Source POV).
Tags: OGD, gov, government, open, opengov
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Permalink Reply by Brand Niemann on
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Title and Employer: Senior Enterprise Architect, US EPA
Knowledge/Experience: http://semanticommunity.net -
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Integrate Your OGD Plan, Website, Dashboard, and Data Publishing
Get to http://govfresh.com/2010/02/nasa-nebula-sends-government-to-the-cloud/
Semantic computing in the cloud will revolutionize the consumer experience on the phone at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/siri-assistant/id351778157?mt=8 and http://siri.com/
NARA is also thinking about what I have suggested - Put Your Desktop in the Cloud in Support of the OGD and Data.gov/semantic - see http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?p=1039&cpage=1#. -
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Because this workshop focused on creating specific ideas that agencies can drop into their actual open government plans, I created "a plan" called MyOpenGovPlan - please see http://epa.wik.is/OpenGov
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Permalink Reply by Margaret Schneider Ross on -
Are you posting these to the EPA Open Gov Wiki?
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I posted this at http://opengsa.ideascale.com/a/pmd/417627-6960 and several other places.
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Lucas and all, Congratulations on a another great workshop! Looking forward to the next workshop and I think the only way this will really be effective is if individuals (government and non-government) write and carry out their own Open Gov Plans in collaboration with others doing the same - see for example my efforts in that direction at http://epa.wik.is/OpenGov
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Mintz on -
I am the CTO, Civil and Health Services Group, CSC. In that role I provide three services to CSC and its Government customers:
* based on my experience as the CIO at the US Department of Transportation and earlier private-sector work, explain to each how best to work together as well as the motivations and culture of the other
* expertise and thought leadership in social networking as well as the disruptive implications of its utilization within and to enhance organizations
* a contrarian nature
* the ability to not-overlook the obvious
I would like to contribute aspects of the above to help move the ball forward in this very exciting endeavor. -
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Permalink Reply by Maxine Teller on -
I am a consultant currently working with the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Chief Information Officer. Over the past six months, I've been working on DoD's policy & guidance for the use of Internet-based Capabilites (Web 2.0, social media, etc.). I understand, first hand, the issues and challenges of developing and approving policy for a more open government.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Pringle on
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Managing Director at Forum One Communications
Forum One has worked with public sector organizations since 1996 helping them use the internet to be more transparent, participatory and collaborative. I have lead a number of online strategy and online collaboration engagements on behalf of USDA, USAID, FDA, and other high profile organizations. I also led the Forum One team that created DataMasher (www.datamasher.org), which won the Apps for America II contest focused on data.gov data. I can draw upon practical experience helping large, complicated organizations develop and execute effective online and open data strategies that support the objectives of the Open Government Directive. -
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Permalink Reply by Bill Balko on -
I am the senior business analyst working for the Defense Information Systems Agency, Office of the Chief Information Officer. Over the past year, we have been working to align the current and future activities of the CIO to those within the organisation and those of our customers across the Department of Defense. For a social media enthusiast, it is sometimes hard to understand the trepidation and anxiety that social media engenders in others, particularly in the business world. The truth is, social media does a lot of exposing. However, there is a limit to how far that exposure/transparency will go without exposing power dynamics. The only way to really uncover power dynamics in organisations is to expose the money trails. That is ultimately where the rubber hits the road. It is my opinion, that it is not that the introduction of social media into the business practices will not work or be beneficial to an organisation it is the transparency that social media affords that makes an organisation nervous. Why should we be so secret? As an organisation, are we afraid of what we may expose? Or, what others may think of us as an organisation? So we should not think of the Open Government Directive as a ‘radical’ transparency and keep it at just increased transparency.
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Permalink Reply by Amy C. Bruins on -
I'm a management analyst within the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer at the Department of Defense. We are currently coordinating the implementation of the Open Government Directive. I've been involved in the solicitation of data sets, the planning of the Open Government website, and the dashboard responses to OMB. I am interested in learning what other federal agencies are doing to organize, draft, and develop the Plan. I also want to know how agencies are incorporating public comments.
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Permalink Reply by Edward Williams on -
I am a director of govt. relations at Blended Ventures. Given that we're a small company, my role also extends to that of a CIO/CTO.
We're currently discussing plans to create what we call a "data delivery framework". This is going to be an open-source framework which can be used to publish data to agency "open" pages in an simple manner as well as make it available for outside consumption via webservices.
We are eager to share our thoughts at this workshop and, also, get feedback on how we can improve it. We'd love to get a better understanding of how different agencies are planning to publish data and incorporate some of those methods in our framework. -
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