Here is a list of what people want to discuss in the afternoon of the workshop (the agenda for the afternoon will be created by participants).
General Effective Strategies & Issues:
* Early movers, what have they done to meet open directive initiative. How has this affected their day-to-day. What have they learned and do differently when trying to become more transparent.
* best techniques being used (bang for the buck), best practices, pitfalls
* best practices and examples of open government initiatives
* How agencies are carrying out the open gov directive
* Tools and technologies GSA assistance agency.gov/open websites agency
* best practices on open government initiatives
* How agencies intend to measure and report out progress towards compliance with the Open Government directive
* increasing transparency of government for the advocate community
* FOIA
* How to effectively overcome barriers or hurdles to open government.
* Strategic Planning for Federal agencies given congressional budget cycles
* OGD requirements Platforms involved in supporting open gov initiatives
* Records management; preservation of electronic information; how this initiative interfaces with the FOIA and FOIA guidance; sustainability of open government efforts over the years, including under future administrations
* Real world results government agencies have achieved in the context of Open Government.
* How to implement the directive? First steps, and who is the lead in FHWA?
* Specific Steps Government Agencies can take to fulfill the Open Government Directive
* Agency media policies, whistleblower protections, right to publish for scientists, and transparency of pre-decisional documents.
* Linking your agency's mission with the principles of the open government initiative
* How are agencies handling the new open gov mandates, and what support is out there for them.
* How open government actually helps DOT deliver better services, not just transparency.
* More clarification on open gov. directive
* tools and methodologies to operationalizing the collaboration, participation, and transparency requirements of the directive.
* implementation questions;
* Best practices from other federal agencies
* Elements of a model agency Open Government Plan
* How to achieve the /Open requirement.
* virtual office for open government
* Timeframes
* Discussions about the challenges of implementing transparency and open gov. initiatives.
* Remote and Virtual Participatory Government, Commerce and Education.
* How OGD will impact Gov 2.0 efforts
* Discussions surrounding the strategy around open government, rather than a focus on the latest web 2.0 tools and technologies.
* leadership, process, etc.
* Implementation Plan, policy barriers
* what can be done to assure some accountability for implementing the OGD plans before they have to be revised
* "Better definition of ""open-gov"" terminology so that metrics can be used to measure progress. In other words: How do we define (and measure) ""success""?"
* open govt success stories and how they're measured
* Practical steps to take a useful and interesting vision and move it toward implementation.
Collaboration across departments:
* collaboration with State DOT's and legislative staff involved in Transportation Policy.
* innovative strategies for collaboration -knowledge sharing across sectors
* Platforms involved in supporting open gov initiatives, public infrastructure, public and private cloud computing, open source sharing among agencies and jurisdictions
* Inter-agency Collaboration Network, such as MAX and GovLoop.
* Implementation of Open Gov and opportunities for re-use across the government.
* shared development of tools
* Discussion of upcoming initiatives, agency participation facilitated web-based dialogue, how to ensure that the OGD plans are not almost exclusively IT focused,
Public Conversation & Engagement:
* open government plans getting public input on open government plans engagement
* how to best get input from public (engagement part)
* Building constructive conversations with an enormous number of people.
* Two way interaction between Government and citizens for open data.
* public engagement processes and measures
* Citizen collaboration
* online communities
* transparency access to virtual and local events everywhere in the country
* Resources for information in the public interest and how citizens and journalists can really use that to inform democracy.
* Civic engagement and the public.
* How will online and face to face deliberative methods be combined to make the most of new data and opportunity to make government better.
* public participation within the open gov process
* Ways to promote participation and collaboration instead of only transparency.
* Cross-Pollination Between or Collaboration with OGD Agencies/Depts, Solution Providers, and Members of Various Civic Engagement Communities of Practice (APA, IAP2, NCDD, etc.)
* What is the roll of face to face dialogue methods combined with online tools. How do we get both communities of practitioners to understand what the other has to offer and work together to create new ways of integrating them to broaden public & expert participation, and collaboration.
* Online social and community organizing for government and broadcasting meetings while opening participation to folks who can't physically be there.
* Public Participation Collaboration
* MegaCommunities, Collaboration and Connection
* Public Engagement Strategies Regional Approaches to Open Gov
* Platforms for collaboration within and external to the government.
* Technologies for massive collaboration and knowledge discovery open data formats,
* "meaningful online ""participation""
Social Media's Role:
* The Role of Social Advertising in helping adoption of the process and successful programs.
* Open gov through online and social media.
* Social Media
* new/social media
* Use of Social Media
* Power of social media
* Security risks in using Open Source; 508 weaknesses in Open Source applications.
* Broadband related
* cloud strategy for the government
* Open Source
* APIs (Application Program Interface)
* Security
* Drupal, Joomla, LAMP
* Public sector enterprise social software providers
* Joomla! CMS implementations.
* RSS feeds
* Implementing a wiki on .gov websites.
* Info on open source software usage in the government.
* Open Source Website software for open government
* Can we get a cloud infrastructure certified and accredited for Federal government data processing?
* Semantic Technology
* The need for standard organizational identifiers across government agencies.
* URLs
* Open Identity for Open Government Initiative - NIH Pilot
Data:
* Expansion and usability for Data.gov
* Data sharing
* data formats
* what is high value data-definitions
* Data and performance metrics
* Opening up public sector data sources
* Scalable architecture Open data formats Reusable solution sets Simple and intuitive representation of data and information
* greater availability of govt information use of innovative tools by citizens for collaboration,
* Ways to not only make data open, but monitor how it's used to innovate
* Ways to make open data beneficial even for those who don't use it or the apps it creates
* Barriers to opening data sets; what outreach opportunities are happening now with various communities to take advantage of the data
* transparency and access to information
* Definition of what constitutes a dataset. If you filter out certain elements (e.g., PII data)does the remaining data represent a discrete dataset?
* Data basing and how agencies are changing the culture to think that transparency is good for government
* Internal governance framework used by agencies to vet dataset submissions prior to submitting to data.gov PMO.
* Developer with the Wikimedia Foundation, can talk about what types of content are useful and can be disseminated through Wikimedia projects, and about use of wiki technology. Has a GIS background & involved with OpenStreetMap, doing GIS data imports from government. I can talk about spatial data.
* Dashboards
* I would like to see how agencies are making their data available to the public
* will agencies begin 2 tag data as it is gathered 2 facilitate seamless collection, internal use, and publication?
Health Care & Health Data:
* increasing the level of collaboration between the government and private sectors in the area of biomedical research-privacy concerns, especially in the realm of healthcare
* Public Health Data: Transparency - Security - Privacy - Stewardship
Business Sector Questions:
* private industry benefits from government
* role of small business
* easier access to government for business
* How will Open Government Directive help to ensure more small businesses and economically challenged businesses will win federal contracts
* Employment opportunities/announcements
* business.gov and its open government community
Resourcing:
* Meeting mandates despite no new funding/resource
* Who is eligible for financial aid?
* contract procurement guidelines
* incumbent contractors
* Funding for Open Government
US & International:
* Comparison of trends in US to the rest of the world.
* Open Gov in support of International Development
* International Development Applications - US State Department, USAID, et al.
* Counter Terrorism
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