Collaboration Expedition Workshop Series

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Collaboration Expedition Workshop Series 21
Envisioning Greater Possibility

• January 14, 2003
• National Science Foundation
• Stafford II Building, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Room 555
• Susan Turnbull, GSA, Chair, Universal Access
• Brand Niemann, EPA, Chair, Web Services Work Group

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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.

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Sponsors

• Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the
  CIO Council (http//www.cio.gov).
• Interagency Working Group for Information
  Technology Research and Development
  (http//www.itrd.gov).

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Roles and Relationships

• Unite affinity groups of the CIO Council
  exploring near-term technology designs for
  citizen-centric government.
• With affinity groups of the Interagency WG on IT
  RD exploring long-range research agendas.
• How can IT RD be harnessed to build broad
  communities of practice to advance e-government?

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Relationship to Universities

• Internet 2 A consortium of 180 universities
  advancing the next generation internet.
• Cyberspace Policy Institute, School of
  Engineering and Applied Science, George
  Washington University.
• University and federal laboratory researchers
  invited to participate in workshops.

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Monthly Open Workshops

• 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//ioa-qpnet-co.gsa.gov/
  UA-Exp.

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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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Benefits

• Catalyst for emergence of open standards based,
  government without boundaries activities.
• Contributes to Federal EA development and IT RD
  research agendas.
• Joint authorship of Extending Digital Dividends
  guide.
• Incubator for proof of concept pilots and
  Innovators.

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Transforming How We Work Together To Better Serve
the Public
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Mark Forman and Quad Council Present Special
Award for Innovation to EPA VoiceXML Application
at the FOSE 2002 Federal CIO Council Showcase of
Excellence, March 20, 2002
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Workshop Purpose 21

• To explore the Potential and Realities of Open
  Architecture and Design Processes for
  Citizen-Centric Government. How can diverse
  people gather in civic settings to develop
  creative forms of collaborative action that
  supports common purposes of self-governance,
  security, and prosperity?

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Agenda

• 850 a.m. - Welcome and Introductions
• Susan Turnbull, GSA.
• Brand Niemann, EPA.
• 9-945 a.m. - The Federal Enterprise Architecture
  An Overview of Vision and Progress, Bob
  Haycock, OMB/FEA-PMO.
• Dialogue 945-10 a.m.
• 10-1045 a.m. - How Can We Build a Distributed
  Intelligence Information Infrastructure
  Responsive to National Urgencies?, Terry
  Bollinger. MITRE.
• Dialogue 1045-11 a.m.
• 11-1145 a.m. - Collaboration and Co-Sourcing
  Designing Intergovernmental and Enterprise
  Services with Sharable Components, Michael
  Kochanik, CollabNet.
• Dialogue 1145-12 noon.
• 12 noon-130 p.m. - Who is Here? Who is Missing?
  Lunch and Networking.
• 130-245 p.m. - A Web Services Manifesto, Philip
  Windley, former CTO State of Utah.
• 3-530 p.m. - XML Web Services Working Group
  Meeting.

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XML Web Services Working Group Meeting

• 1. Introduction
• E-Gov Act, CIO Council, and AIC Updates
• XML 2002 Conference WG Meeting and Exhibit
  Recognitions
• Recent Press
• 2. Business
• Web Site
• ListServ
• Collaboration Place (Karl Habenstreit and Martin
  Smith)
• Initial and Proposed Pilots and Priorities
• Draft IAC/SAWG White Paper
• Some Coming Attractions
• Other
• 3. Presentations
• a. XML 2002 Conference Video Highlights-Antoinette
  Purdon, Instant Index.
• b. Priorities/Pilots-Kevin William, Blue Oxides
  Technologies, The XML Collaborator - Industry
  Standards Interoperability.
• c. Vendors-Jeff Harrison, OpenGIS Consortium, OWS
  1.2 Demonstration and Geospatial One-Stop Portal
  Initiative.
• d. Education/Analysts-Uttam Narsu, Giga
  Information Group, e-Gov Secure Transactions
  Scenario (via telephone at 5-530 p.m.).

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Some Coming Attractions

• January 15, XML Working Group IAC FEA White
  Papers and PDF/XML, Room 5141-B, GSA
  Headquarters, 18th F Streets, N.W., Washington,
  D.C.
• January 16, Architecture and Infrastructure
  Committee Meeting.
• January 28-29, 2003, XML/Web Services Technical
  Exchange Meeting and Conference (MITRE/PIXIT),
  January 28-30, Langley, VA. Invited presentation
  on XML Web Services Working Group.
• January 29, FEA-PMO/SAWG Agency Meeting on FEA
  Products, White House Conference Center (more
  details to follow).
• February 10, 2003, Invited Tutorial, 145-415
  p.m., Web-Enabled Government Conference, February
  10-12, 2003, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington,
  DC. XML Web Services Working Group and Examples
  Documents, Databases, and Registries.
• February 18, 2003, Universal Access Collaboration
  Workshop 22 and XML Web Services Working Group
  Meeting 4.
• March 17-19, 2003, Open Source for National and
  Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU,
  Washington, DC, http//www.egovos.org/

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Architecture and Infrastructure Committee

• Realignment approved by the CIO Council
• Leadership
• John Gilligan, USAF CIO, Co-Chair
• Debra Stouffer, EPA CTO, Co-Chair
• Norman Lorentz, OMB CTO, Advisor
• Most of the previous subcommittees and working
  groups will continue under the auspices of the
  Leveraging Technology Subcommittee.
• The leadership teams of the two other new
  subcommittees will integrate the CIO Council
  activities with those of the OMB and the Federal
  Enterprise Architecture Program Management
  Office. They have begun to develop a work plan.
• The AIC will continue to plan its meetings around
  the third Thursday of the month.

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Architecture and Infrastructure Committee

• Subcommittees
• Leveraging Technologies
• Identify technologies with the potential to
  improve the value and quality of the FEA.
• Leadership to be announced.
• Enterprise Architecture Governance
• Provide policy guidance, advice, and assistance
  in the definition, design, and implementation of
  the Enterprise Architecture discipline and
  practice throughout the Federal Government.
• Robert Haycock, OMB, and John Przysucha, DOE
• Components
• Foster the identification, maturation, and use
  and reuse of Component-Based Architectures and
  Architecture Components in the Federal
  Government.
• Reynolds Cahoon, NARA, and Robert Haycock, OMB.
• Note See http//cio.gov/documents/architecture_su
  bcommittee_charters.html for charters.

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Introduction

• The Federal Enterprise Architecture - An Overview
  of Vision and Progress
• Bob Haycock, Chief Architect, Federal Enterprise
  Architecture Program Management Office, OMB
  Co-chair, Governance Subcommittee and Components
  Subcommittee, Architecture and Infrastructure
  Committee, CIO Council, http//www.feapmo.gov
• Dialogue afterwards.

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Introduction

• How Can We Build a Distributed Intelligence
  Information Infrastructure responsive to National
  urgencies? How do proprietary and free/open
  source (FOSS) components mix in co-sourcing
  development processes?
• Terry Bollinger, MITRE. Terry will brief us on
  the results of a new survey completed by MITRE
  for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
  on the number and types of FOSS applications
  within the Department of Defense. The main
  conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software
  plays a more critical role in the DoD than has
  generally been recognized. http//www.disa.mil
• Dialogue afterwards.

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Introduction

• Collaboration and Co-Sourcing Designing
  Intergovernmental and Enterprise Services with
  Sharable Components.
• Mike Kochanik, Collabnet, http//www.collab.net
• Dialogue afterwards.

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Introduction

• A Web Services Manifesto
• Phillip Windley, former CTO, State of Utah.
• Dialogue afterwards.