Envisioning Greater Possibility: Open Collaboration and Open Standards in Egovernment Expedition Wor

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Envisioning Greater Possibility Open
Collaboration and Open Standards in
E-governmentExpedition Workshop Series26

• July 22, 2003
• National Science Foundation
• Stafford II Building, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Room 555
• Susan Turnbull, GSA, Chair, Universal Access WG

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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 for our
  sponsors.

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Sponsors

• Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the
  CIO Council (http//www.cio.gov)
• Governance, Components, and Emerging Technology
  Subcommittees
• http//cio.gov/documents/architecture_subcommittee
  _charters.html
• Interagency Working Group for Information
  Technology Research and Development
• http//www.itrd.gov

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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//ua-exp.gov

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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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Outcomes

• Fostered Two CIO Council Award Recognitions.
• ET/Standards Leadership Award to Brand Niemann.
• Distributed the Digital Dividends Guide to 3500
  Senior Executives
• New incubator pilot projects from collaboration
  with the XML Web Services WG.
• Development of the e-Health and FEA/XML Web
  Services Tracks of the GWU e-Gov Conference that
  will become part of FOSE in 2004.
• Initial XML Topic Map Web Service of FEA and 2
  E-Gov Conferences.
• Initiated the Emerging Components Conference
  Series with the SBA with focus on the SBIR (Small
  Business Innovation Research Act)

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Workshop 26

• Purpose
• To Explore the Potential and Realities of
  Composing Governance Evolving Smarter Forms To
  Connect Communities of Practice and Accelerate
  Citizen-Centered Government, in light of Federal
  Enterprise Architecture (FEA) goals toward
  transformative e-government.

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Questions

• How are new collaboration norms and civic tools
  broadening how societies create and preserve
  meaning together over time?
• The Presidents Management Agenda requires all
  federal agencies to transform the roles and
  relationships among their people, processes, and
  technology in order to become a citizen-centered
  government.
• As more people gather in ad hoc and chartered
  communities to achieve the creativity demanded by
  complex national challenges, what will these new
  forms of public association, solution
  envisioning, and standards-building look like?

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Questions

• How can we practice stakeholder-centered forms of
  governance?
• What new roles and relationships are needed to
  balance how to
• 1) better appreciate our relationship to wholes
  institutions, organizations, and multi-sector
  governance
• 2) use our influence to better cooperate and
  compete as part of those wholes and
• 3) better control our resources so that they are
  used synergistically with those of others and the
  whole?

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Collaboration Communities
CIO Councils Architecture Infrastructure Commit
tee (AIC) Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA)
Small Businesses Industry Advisory
Council Agencies (SBIR) E-Gov Initiatives NASCIO T
echnology Associations Venture Capitalists Etc.
(Who is missing?)
Pilots
1. XML Data Model Registry 2. XML E-Forms 3.
XML Database 4. XML Collaboration Network 5. Etc.
BCOS
XML and Component Repository
XML Documents UBR Templates Topic Maps Semantic
Web (RDF) GIDS, etc.
BCOS Business Compliance One-Stop E-Gov
Initiative
A Component is a self-contained business process
or service with predefined functionality that may
be exposed through a business or technology
interface.
UBR UDDI Business Registry UDDI Universal
Description, Discovery, and Integration
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Agenda

• 845 a.m - Welcome and Introductions
• Susan Turnbull, GSA, Chair, Universal Access WG.
• 900 a.m. - Bootstrapping Enterprise Architecture
  I Connecting Communities of Practice Through
  Semantic Technologies
• Karl Hebenstreit, GSA, Will Peratino, DoL, Harlan
  Hugh,, Michel Biezunski, TheBrain Technologies
  Corporation, Coolheads Consulting, Ralph Hodgson,
  TopQuadrant, Inc.

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Agenda (continued)

• 1100 a.m. - Break
• 1115 a.m. Fishbowl Discussion Bootstrapping
  Enterprise Architecture II and III Who is Here?
  Who is Missing from this Dialogue?
• Strategic Leadership Dialogue Provocateur, Ralph
  Hodgson
• Stakeholder perspectives 1) Citizen 2)
  CoP/Agents 3) Transformation 4) World view 5)
  Sponsor 6) Environment
• 1245 p.m. - Lunch and Networking.
• 200 p.m. - Workshop Adjourns Workshop
  presentations, resources, and contributor
  information at
• http//ua-exp.gov
• 2 - 5 p.m. - XML Web Services Working Group
  Meeting
• Meeting agenda is available at
  http//web-services.gov

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Workshop 26

• On American Democracy, Lord Bryce, 1919
• America has still a long vista of years
  stretching before her in which she will enjoy
  conditions far more auspicious than any European
  country can count upon. And that America marks
  the highest level, not only of material
  well-being, but of intelligence and happiness,
  which the race has yet attained, will be the
  judgment of those who look not at the favored few
  for whose benefit the world seems hither to have
  framed its institutions, but at the whole body of
  the people.

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Overview

• Overview of XML Web Services Meeting at 2 PM and
  Upcoming Events
• Brand Niemann, Chair, XML Web Services Working
  Group.

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Top 10 Reasons to Seek SBIR/STTR Funding
Opportunities

• 10. Over 1.6 Billion available.
• 9. NOT A LOAN - no repayment.
• 8. Provides recognition, verification and
  visibility.
• 7. Potential leveraging tool to attract venture
  capital/other sources of .
• 6. Fosters partnerships (e.g., large
  corporations, academia).
• 5. Creates jobs and stimulates local, state and
  national economies.
• 4. Provides seed money to fund high risk
  projects.
• 3. Intellectual property rights are normally
  retained by the small business.
• 2. Small business concerns are recognized as a
  unique national resource of technological
  innovation.
• 1. To make economic and societal contributions to
  America.

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XML Web Services Working Group Meeting

• 1. Introduction
• Updates.
• Some Coming Attractions and Announcements.
• Introductions.
• 2. Business
• Pilot Proposal "Web Services and Registries" (see
  "UDDI and ebXML Registry A Co-Existence
  Paradigm") and Reports on Discussions of Native
  XML Databases and the Boston DCI Enterprise
  Portals and Web Services Conference, Joe
  Chiusano, Booz Allen Hamilton.
• 3. Presentations
• Pilot Project Federal Enterprise Component
  Registry and Repository Using Native XML Database
  Management Technology, Joel Patterson, Software
  AG.
• Operational Web Services National Environmental
  Public Health Tracking Network, and National
  Environmental Information Exchange Network
  (invited).
• Operational Web Services - Medical Occupational
  Data Systems (MODS) (invited).

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Some Coming Attractions and Announcements

• July 23, 2003, Native XML Database for XML
  Registry/Repository, Pilot Presentation at the
  XML Registry Project Team Meeting, 115-345 p.m.
  Note new location.
• August 26, 2003, Collaboration Expedition
  Workshop 27 only. XML Web Services Working Group
  Meeting will be separate this month. Agendas in
  process.
• September 8, 2003, Semantic Technologies for
  E-Gov Workshop at the White House Conference
  Center. (See next slides.)
• September 17-19, 2003, National Entrepreneurial
  Conference and Expo, Washington Hilton Towers,
  Washington, D.C. Participation details in
  process.
• September 30, 2003, Collaboration Expedition
  Workshop 28 and XML Web Services Working Group
  Meeting. Agendas in process.

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Some Coming Attractions and Announcements

• Semantic Technologies for E-Gov Workshop, DRAFT
  Agenda, September 8, 2003, White House Conference
  Center, Truman Room, 830 a.m. - 500 p.m.
• 830 - Welcome and Logistics - Brand Niemann,
  Chair, XML Web Services Working Group.
• 8 45 - Session 1. The Semantic Web and DOD's
  Virtual Knowledge Base (VKB). Michael Daconta,
  Chief Architect on DOD's VKB and senior author of
  "The Semantic Web A Guide to the Future of XML,
  Web Services, and Knowledge Management" (Wiley
  Technology Publishing, June 2003). Presentation,
  Demonstrations, and Discussion.
• 1015 a.m. Break
• 1030 a.m. - Session 2. Semantic Technologies for
  E-Gov Pilot Project. Ralph Hodgson, Executive
  Partner, TopQuadrant. Presentation and
  Demonstrations.
• 1150 a.m. - Session 3. Solution Envisioning
  Co-Panels - Semantic Applications for eGovernment
  - Introduction - Explanation of the Semantic
  Applications Gallery 

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Some Coming Attractions and Announcements

• Semantic Technologies for E-Gov Workshop, DRAFT
  Agenda, September 8, 2003, White House Conference
  Center, Truman Room, 830 a.m. - 500 p.m.
  (continued)
• 1210 p.m. - Working Lunch (catered in) and
  guided tour of the Semantic Applications Gallery
  by Vendors and Consultants.
• 130 p.m. - Session 4. Who is Here? Who is
  Missing? Suggestions. Susan Turnbull, Chair,
  Universal Access Working Group.
• 230 p.m. - Session 5. Solution Envisioning -
  Position Statements - W3C, Semantic Web,
  Technology Providers, Semantic Applications
• 300 p.m. Break
• 315 p.m. - Session 6. Solution Envisioning
  Co-Panels - Facilitated Discussion between
  Problem Owners and Solution/Technology Providers.
• 430 p.m. - Extended Adjourn - the panelists make
  themselves available for discussions in separate
  areas of the room
• 500 p.m. - Close

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Some Coming Attractions and Announcements

• September 4, 2003, IRMCO, On Being Open Tapping
  the Transformational Power of Collaboration,
  Standards, Components, and Code
• How do open standards and open collaboration
  principles balance the tension between continuity
  and innovation for E-government?
• How are new collaboration norms and civic tools
  broadening how societies create and preserve
  tangible and intangible assets together over
  time?
• How do institutions form learning relationships
  enabling individuals to work across institutional
  boundaries to address societal challenges?
• What governance mechanisms foster this needed
  creativity?
• How is the peer learning and production model of
  open source contributing to this new organization
  form?
• What do these participation-intensive, virtual
  institutions look like?
• Are societal advances amplified when open source
  codes the scientific method?
• Tony Stanco, Director of the Center of Open
  Source Government andAssociate Director of the
  Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute
  atthe George Washington University.