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.  OpenGovTV is providing live streaming video from 2pm-4:30pm during the event on this page.

 

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 four teams with fifteen 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.

 

8:30am	Coffee and networking
9:00am	Convene all teams in the main room
9:30am	Teams begin working in breakout rooms
12:15pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Teams continue work in breakout rooms
2:15pm	Teams present their ideas to the judges in the main room
4:15pm	Conclusion
4:30pm	End
5:00pm	Happy Hour Sponsored by Acquia