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VASA – 1628

Collaborative Expedition Workshop #70 February 19, 2008 The Power of Story and Open Standards in National Preparedness. Susan Turnbull, GSA, Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee and Co-chair, Social Economic and Workforce Implications of IT. VASA – 1628.

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  1. Collaborative Expedition Workshop #70 February 19, 2008The Power of Story and Open Standards in National Preparedness Susan Turnbull, GSA, Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee and Co-chair, Social Economic and Workforce Implications of IT

  2. VASA – 1628 In design we either hobble or support people’s natural ability to express forms of expertise.

  3. Building Sustainable Stewardship Practices Across Communities • Collaborative Expedition Workshops and Collaborative Work Environment (http://www.gsa.gov/collaborate) Co-sponsors: • 1. GSA's Intergovernmental Solutions Office • 2. Emerging Technology SC (ETSC), Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the Federal CIO Council – http://cio.gov • 3. Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology R & D (NITRD) and Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development (SEW) Coordinating Group, NITRD – http://nitrd.gov

  4. Emerging Technology Subcommittee - ET SC Tuning ET Together - From Stovepipes to Wind Chimes Purpose: An “incubator” organizing process to accelerate discovery, maturation, and validation of capabilities that leverage FEA principles and priorities. The key components of charter : • Greater foresight and discernment as established and emerging technologies compete and converge • Longer life-cycles through market-based, open standards technologies • Common understanding of business scenarios to anticipate performance outcomes and mitigate risks. • Improve strategic foresight and collaboration capacity around strategic IT assets. Key FY08 Activities • Conduct ET Life-cycle process http://ET.gov • Conduct Collaborative Expedition Workshops with GSA and Subcommittee on Networking for IT Research and Development ET SC Co-chairs

  5. Key FY08 Activities • Conduct http://ET.gov Purpose: “Continue to develop more efficient and effective methods for sharing information on emerging technologies.” CIOC Strategic Plan ET.gov stages: 1. Identification: anyone registers ET component using XML schema 2. Subscription: community forms around high potential component 3. Stewardship: community recognized by ET SC (i.e. IPv6, StratML) 4. Graduation: component recognized by Services SC for inclusion in CORE.gov Key FY08 Actions • Explore partnering with other federal settings involved in technology evaluation and transfer • Conduct Collaborative Expedition workshops to support networking among ET communities Contact Information

  6. Key FY08 Activities 2. Conduct Collaborative Expedition Workshops Purpose: Monthly open workshops to encourage collaboration among government and community implementers of IT and to demonstrate promising capabilities emerging from IT research that aligns with FEA principles • “Facilitate strategic dialogue among communities of interest. Through the Expedition Workshops, sponsored by AIC, interested participants experience and learn about new opportunities to adhere to sound architectural principles and implement shared, service-oriented solutions.” from CIOC Strategic Plan • Leadership in virtual collaboration (i.e. Data Reference Model, Geospatial Profile) Key FY08 Activities/Deliverables • Organize around business scenarios from ET.gov & IT R&D communities that address CIOC Strategic Plan and Architecture Principles for the US Government. • Organize around CIO requests. ET SC co-chairs SEW CG co-chairs

  7. Collaborative Expedition Workshops Purpose • Organize around common purpose, larger than any institution, to appreciate potentials and realities • Improve quality of dialogue and collaborative prototyping at intergovernmental crossroads • Participants, representing many forms of expertise, return to their settings with a larger perspective of the “whole” • De Tocqueville “Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions form associations. …In democratic countries the science of association is the mother of science; the progress of all the rest depends on the progress it has made.”

  8. CollaborativeExpedition Workshops • Create conducive conditions for “Breakthrough” Innovations – from “Need to Know” -> “Need to Share” -> “Build to Share” • To be Informed (not Overwhelmed) by the Combined Complexity of our Multiple Forms of Expertise • Authoritative Communities of Interest/ Practice around Common Business Lines • Agile Framework for Building Intergovernmental Services • Emergence of Open Collaboration, Open Standards, Semantic Technologies • “In design, we either hobble or support people’s natural ability to express forms of expertise.” Prof. David D. Woods

  9. Building Sustainable Stewardship Practices Across Communities • How can multiple Communities of Practice discover and organize around common mission needs to build shared understanding? • How can shared understanding around several select, urgent cross-boundary scenarios be accelerated? • What is the role of collaborative prototyping around emerging technology potential, in light of the Federal Enterprise Architecture's Reference Models?

  10. Building Sustainable Stewardship Practices Across Communities Key Findings: • FY03 - Agile business components in innovative settings not easily discovered by e-government managers, resulting in lost or delayed opportunities for all parties. • FY04 - Growing Opportunity to apply Emerging Technologies (web services, grid computing, and semantic web) to tune up Innovation Pipeline with better linkages. • FY05 - Collaborative Work Environment expands effective networking across intergovernmental communities and complements monthly Collaborative Expedition Workshops; validated efficacy with Data Reference Model Working Group • FY06-07 - Networking Among Communities of Practice/ Interest with Communities co-organizing the workshops, provides conducive environment to build shared understanding toward joint action around promising technology potentials

  11. Going Forward: From Stovepipes to Wind-Chimes • Value: "Frontier Outpost" to open up quality conversations, augmented by “light-weight” tools, to leverage collaborative capacity of united, but diverse sectors of society, seeking to discover, frame, and act on national potentials. 68 workshops since March, 2001 • 60-80 participants per workshop • > 20 Communities of Practice • FY07: 1.7 million visits to site, 5.62 million file downloads • FY08 Alignment: Networking for Multiplicative Returns • Putting it all together - Planning upcoming workshops together • Building shared understanding of fundamental concepts needed for communities representing diverse forms of expertise, to work together to leverage toward improved citizen service delivery at lower cost.

  12. Build on Recent Workshop Purpose and Questions To explore the potentials and realities of innovative, Intergovernmental Practices for advancing dialogue between Government and Citizens in Support of Citizen-Centric Services. • 1. What are the potentials and realities for Networking among Intergovernmental Communities of Practice and Communities of Interest (CoPs/ CoIs)? What role(s) can these Communities play as Innovation Catalysts in a Services Economy? • 2. How can we establish new “norms” for collaborating together across institutional boundaries? • 3. What are the national scenarios where distributed collaboration will be fundamental to national readiness and effective joint action by institutions?

  13. Build on Recent Workshop: Purpose and Questions • 4. How can we draw on strategic leadership communities and "best practices" to move toward more agile cyberinfrastructure that transcends the high costs of insularity and advances needed innovation? • 5. What are the opportunities for leveraging greater transparency and openness to achieve mission agility and greater value from existing and future information assets? • 6. What "light-weight" tools are needed to support emergent governance across intergovernmental communities? How can these tools bootstrap open collaborative development with the agility needed by intergovernmental communities and their individual host institutions?

  14. Today’s Workshop Questions • 1. What aspects of national preparedness will most benefit from coordination that includes open dialogue in public settings? • 2. How do we create commonly understood problem representations and simulations to help multiple disciplines and geographic regions build capacity for joint action? • 3. Can we see in the future of creative collaborative efforts (e.g. public health, urban planning, disaster management) a future that transcends what has passed? • 4. What concrete steps are presently possible toward this future, including what institutions have a shared mission for improved law, science, innovation, and public policy as reflected in their strategic plans?

  15. Today’s Workshop Questions • 5. What are the current and future contributions of light-weight aggregator tools for advancing discovery, shared understanding, and organizing that scales across individuals, communities of practice, and institutions? How can these tools help us be individually accountable for collaborative actions relative to shared purpose? Examples in use by this workshop community include: wiki namesake pages,(http://et.gov Emerging Technology Life-cycle process) and http://xml.gov/stratml/index.htm Strategy Markup Language (StratML) • 6. How could ''lightweight semantics'' complement open format, robust storage, and fluid search to help integrate disparate information sources that support better national preparedness? • 7. How could authoritative versions of existing policies, regulations, and legal procedures currently in place, be complemented by a "collective wisdom" version in order to broaden opportunities for suggested improvements, harmonization across boundaries, and creation of "synthetic" documents for easier comparison and constrast across institutions?

  16. Today’s Workshop Questions • 8. How can public policy stakeholders tap Web 2.0 "build to share" principles being advanced by forward-looking information stewardship organizations in order to broaden common understanding of multi-faceted aspects of national/ global challenges and accelerate discovery of exemplary practices? • a) Digital data and information communities advancing sound approaches for electronically stored information. Examples include librarians, curators, web content managers, ontologists, researchers, artists, historians, data managers, and records managers. • b) Open Standards bodies and consortia • c) Universities and university consortia • d) International stewardship associations • e) Virtual organizations • 9. How do we build from the best of past scientific research and also draw upon generational differences and cyberinfrastructure opportunities in a manner that reinforces strengths? (e.g. tap software engineering techniques – fine grained recording of “Who did what” transparency at the code level)

  17. Today’s Workshop Questions • 10. What strategies are emerging to advance the public's awareness and participation in public health, public policy, scientific, and scholarly knowledge infrastructures? • 11. How can we meet sustainability of documentation challenges, including Records Management and the preservation of records of collaboration over time? • 12. What are the emerging strategies for advancing legal and public policy collections with the resilience to mitigate disruptions or degradations over time? • 13. How do we provide the right sets of information flowing into and out of "what if" mission-policy simulations, etc. so understanding flows broadly even when the learning is experiential? • 14. What are the conducive conditions for the creativity and governance needed among networked scientific and scholarly communities so results and implications flow in a timely manner into legal, public policy, and public preparedness channels?

  18. Related Upcoming FY08 Workshop Themes Emerging Cyberinfrastructure and: • March 18 - Technology Evaluation • April 15 - Certification • May 20 - Identity Management • June 10 - Processing Ultra-Large Data Collections • Peer Review and Scientific Knowledge validation • Broadened Public Participation Also, Sept. 2008 workshop on the Science of Science and Innovation Policy

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