We're pleased to invite you to the February Open Government Directive Workshop at the Charles Sumner Museum and Conference Center (17th and M Street NW, Washington, DC).  The workshop will take place from 9am-4:30pm on February 17th.  RSVP instructions are below.  The public sector RSVP deadline is February 16th; the RSVP for the private sector has passed.

 

 

We're excited 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.

 

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 highly productive and engaging.  We are using a framework of competitive collaboration to surface the best ideas.  There will be six teams with twenty 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.

 

Attending this workshop costs $10 so we can pay for your lunch and coffee (Also, be sure to use this link to pay and to automatically sign up for notifications about event logistics.).  

• If you are interested in participating, please join this discussion on GovLoop (the public sector RSVP deadline is February 16th; please note the private sector RSVP deadline has passed), and write 3-5 sentences about who you are, where you work, and what knowledge/experience you'd like to contribute to a team.  If you are not on GovLoop, we encourage you to join (it's free).  If you do not wish to join GovLoop and would like to participate, please email info@opengovplaybook.org with your 3-5 sentences and we'll publish them to the GovLoop discussion for you.  We want to make this as transparent and easy for you as possible!
• Next, team leaders may invite you to join their team by contacting you through the GovLoop messaging system by February 12th.  Team leaders can focus on one aspect of the OGD (transparency, participation, or collaboration) or team leaders may select a diverse team and choose to cover all three.  Here is the link to team rosters which will be updated daily.
• Online participation-- Capacity at the conference center 120 participants.  Participants who are not selected to be on a team may collaborate online using these Web 2.0 tools.  In order for this to happen, some online team leaders must volunteer to lead.  Anyone can be an online team leader; if you're interested, please email info@opengovplaybook.org