Envisioning Greater Possibility: Open Collaboration

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Envisioning Greater PossibilityOpen
Collaboration Open Standards in
E-government.Expedition Workshop Series 28

• September 30, 2003
• National Science Foundation, Stafford I Building,
  4201 Wilson Blvd., 12th Floor, NSF Boardroom
  (Room 1235)
• Susan Turnbull, GSA, and Brand Niemann, EPA
• CIO Councils Emerging Technology Subcommittee

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Purpose of Workshops

• Open up communication circles among diverse
  stakeholders.
• Accelerate commitments and maturation of open
  standard components for e-government.
• Collaborative incubator process for our
  sponsors.

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Sponsors

• Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the
  CIO Council (http//www.cio.gov)
• Governance, Components, and Emerging Technology
  Subcommittees
• http//cio.gov/documents/architecture_subcommittee
  _charters.html
• Interagency Working Group for Information
  Technology Research and Development
• http//www.itrd.gov

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Emerging Technology Subcommittee

• Key Messages
• Supports Federal Agencies and partners as they
  assess new technologies because
• Organizations have limited capacity of expertise
  and resources and
• Individualized vendors marketing to multiple
  agencies is not cost-effective nor possible for
  new, small innovative companies.
• Provide intergovernmental process for pilot
  projects and technology assessment initiatives in
  support of
• Vendor clearinghouse
• Government-wide reusable components and
• Federal and intergovernmental lines of business.

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Building Reciprocal Relationships

• Explore common purposes with scope beyond what
  government can do alone.
• Participation by innovators/bridge-builders.
• Contributes to culturally expansive learning
  among separate communities.
• Collaboration site at http//ua-exp.gov

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Workshop Community Values

• Accommodate Difference
• Greater Diversity of Participation around Shared
  Purpose.
• Faster Innovation Diffusion
• Improved Ability to Appreciate the Whole Picture
  and Engage in Sustained Dialogue.
• Better Marketplace Discernment
• Nexus of common sense and good science.

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Todays Workshop Purpose

• To explore the Potential and Realities of
  Intergovernmental Communities of Practice as
  Innovation Catalysts in an "Intangibles" Economy.
• The President's Management Agenda requires all
  federal agencies to transform the roles and
  relationships among people, processes, and
  technology in order to become a citizen-centered
  government. The Federal Enterprise Architecture
  provides a blueprint for organizing lines of
  business around shared mission purpose.

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Questions

• 1. How can our conversations "perturb" current
  understandings in ways that encourage the
  creation of new or different possibilities?
• 2. How can we establish new "norms" for
  collaborating together across institutional
  boundaries?
• 3. How can smarter "work-forms" such as
  Communities of Practices help mature innovative,
  but disruptive technologies, that offer
  significant transformational potential?

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Context-setting

• 1. Internal Perspective Highlights of workshops
  in 2003 and Implications for 2004 in light of
  10-year Retrospective and Prospective View
  1998-2008
• 2. External Perspective Overview of the new
  economic paradigm of "intangible assets" that is
  rewriting the rules of business processes,
  including government with strong emphasis on an
  organizations ability to innovate.

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Agenda

• 830 a.m. Coffee and Networking
• 845-930 a.m. Envisioning Greater Possibilities
  Highlights of the Past Year with Implications for
  2004.
• 930-1015 a.m. Open Dialogue Who is Here? Who
  is Missing?
• 1015-1030 a.m. Break.
• 1030-1115 a.m. Introduction to the Small
  Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and
  the "SBIR for eGov Pilots" Initiative.

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Agenda

• Purpose Explore the potential and realities of
  Intergovernmental Communities of Practice as
  Innovation Catalysts in an "Intangibles" Economy.
• 1115 a.m.-1215 p.m. Invisible Advantage How
  Intangibles are Driving Business Performance,
  Jonathan Low, Senior Research Fellow, Cap Gemini
  Ernst Young Center for Business Innovation.
• Jonathan is a leading researcher and expert on
  intangible value and its implications for
  business management, corporate growth and
  economic policy and co-author with Pam Cohen
  Kalafut of the book, Invisible Advantage How
  Intangibles are Driving Business Performance,
  Perseus Publishing, 2002.
• 1215 p.m. Open Dialogue.
• 1245 p.m. Lunch/Networking.
• 2-5 p.m. XML Web Services Working Group Meeting.
• See http//web-services.gov/link3

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Highlights of the Past Year with Implications for
2004

• 1. Advance Understanding Improved Ability to
  Appreciate the Whole Picture 1998-2008 Engage
  Multiple Perspectives from Stakeholders for
  Collaborative Discovery.
• 2. Problem-Centered Organizing Improved Ability
  to Engage in Sustained Dialogue that Leads to
  Action View from 2003.
• 3. Advance Technology Improved Resource
  Allocation Process for Achieving Results
  Collaborative IT Investment Measures that
  Multiply ROI from 2003-2008.

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Highlights of the Past Year

• 1. Advance Understanding Improved Ability to
  Appreciate the Whole Picture
• Greater awareness of emerging citizen-government
  relationship potential Extending Digital
  Dividends guide (first talking book) distributed
  to 1700 Depository libraries, 3500 Senior
  Executives.
• E-Government for All A Virtual Conference on
  E-Government and the Digital Divide, no fee,
  November 13-14, 2003, http//www.egov4all.org.
• Initial XML Topic Map Web Service of Two eGov
  Conferences and FEA.
• The Role of Usability in eGov, October 28th
  Workshop, planned by Emerging Community of
  Practice on Usability.

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Highlights of the Past Year

• 2. Problem-Centered Organizing Improved Ability
  to Engage in Sustained Dialogue that Leads to
  Action
• Developed e-Health and FEA/XML Web Services
  Tracks of the GWU e-Gov Conference invited to
  FOSE in 2004, including Web Services
  Interoperability demos (FOSE and beyond)
• Spin-off CoP workshop in June led to SBIR for
  eGov Pilots Program with quarterly conferences
  on Emerging Components (See Componenttechnology.o
  rg).
• Open Collaboration, Open Standards was invited
  session (1 of 10) at IRMCO, September 4-6, 2003,
  follow-on in Paris at EGOVOS 3, November 24-26th.
• Workshop findings are incorporated into actions
  of the Emerging Technology Subcommittee, AIC, CIO
  Council.

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Highlights of the Past Year

• 3. Advance Technology Collaborative-Centered
  Resource Allocation Process for Achieving Results
  Multiplies Benefits
• Fostered Two CIO Council Award Recognitions.
• ET/Standards Leadership Award to Brand Niemann.
• Growing recognition of Communities of Practice as
  an effective means of tapping high performance
  potential as people learn to create conducive
  environments where trust and the public good
  synergies of shared purpose are experienced.
• Initiated the Emerging Components Conference
  Series with the SBA led to the SBIR (Small
  Business Innovation Research Act) and eGov Pilot
  Program.
• Request to advance alignment among Consolidated
  Health Informatics, Justice Intergovernmental
  Partnership, EPA-States Exchange Network.

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XML Web Services Working Group Agenda

• 1. Introduction
• Updates.
• Some Coming Attractions and Announcements.
• Introductions.
• 2. Presentations
• Pilot Project Graduation Report Web Services
  and Registries, Joe Chiusano.
• Pilot Project Final Report E-Forms for E-Gov,
  Rick Rogers.
• Operational Web Services OMB Exhibit A300 XML
  Schema Web Service, Will Gorman (tentative).
• Operational Web Services SCOx Web Services,
  Bruce Grant and Kevin Auger.
• 3. Business
• Graduation and Awards.

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Some Coming Attractions and Announcements

• October 15, 2003, Topic Maps The Inventor's
  Perspective on Subject-based Access (Dr. Michel
  Biezunski Dr. Steven R. Newcomb), 1000-1200
  noon, Pickford Theater (James Madison Building,
  Third Floor, Library of Congress).
• October 15, Knowledge Management Working Groups
  Taxonomy and Semantic SIG Meeting (tentative).
• October 20, 2003, Emerging Components Conference
  Series, White house Conference Center. See "SBIR
  for eGov Pilots" and register at
  Componenttechnology.org to participate.
• October 28, 2003, Collaboration Expedition
  Workshop 29 will focus on the role of Usability
  in E-government, highlighting success stories and
  best practices from across the Federal
  government.

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Some Coming Attractions and Announcements

• November 2-5, 2003, National Association of Seed
  and Venture Funds (A Network of private, public
  and non-profit organizations investing and
  facilitating investment in entrepreneurs), 2003
  NASVF Conference Innovations in Early Stage
  Investing, Invited to present on "SBIR for eGov
  Pilots" Program, Announcement, and
  Componenttechnology.org.
• November 10, 2003, Programming .Net Components -
  Design and Build Maintainable Systems Using
  Component-Oriented Programming, Chapter 1 (free)
  - Introducing Component-Oriented Programming,
  Juval Lowy, O'Reilly Books. Future Phase 2 of the
  XML Web Services for E-Gov Pilots Meeting Topic.
  ("A component is a .NET class.")
• November 24-26, 2003, EGOVOS 3 Open Standards
  and Libre Software in Government, Paris, France,
  Invited Presentation on "SBIR for eGov Pilots"
  and Componenttechnology.org