Open Government, Innovation, and Change

1
Open Government, Innovation, and Change Its
About Leadership, Its About People, Its About
Transparency, Its About Mass Collaboration
2
Setting the Stage The Public Communication

• Open Internet
• Transparent and Connected Democracy
• Modern Communications Infrastructure
• American Competitiveness
• Prepare our Children for the 21st Century Economy
• Employ Science, Technology, Innovation to solve
  problems

3
Setting the Stage Agency IT Trends to Understand

• INNOVATION
• Open Government
• Transparency
• Change
• Push not Pull
• Citizen engagement
• Web 2.0, Web 3.0
• Real-time feedback
• Business and Policy Understanding
• Workforce and public expectations higher than
  ever

4
Cyber Security 2.0

• The Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th
  Presidency "America's failure to protect
  cyberspace is one of the most urgent national
  security problems facing the new administration
  that will take office in January 2009. It is a
  battle fought mainly in the shadows. It is a
  battle we are losing."
• The principal concern FISMA 1.0 was about
  building a foundation now about implementing
  the key controls that can protect them or that
  can help them respond quickly
• CAG - Consensus Audit Guidelines shift NIST
  guidance from mandatory to guidance and to make
  critical controls mandatory
• Focus on buying security baked in rather than
  blaming user organizations. Suppliers of
  information services responsible for auditable
  security (probably using the CAG)

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"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand,
more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in
its success, than to take the lead in the
introduction of a new order of things."
Niccolo Machiavelli