The Collaborative Expedition workshops serve individuals, practitioners, and policy-makers from all sectors: government, business, and non-government organizations to practice an emerging societal form that advances realization of the citizen-centric government goal of the President’s Management Agenda. Each workshop organizes participation around a common purpose, larger than any institution, including government. By learning how to appreciate multiple perspectives around the potentials and realities of this larger “purpose”, subsequent actions of individuals representing many forms of expertise, can be expressed more effectively in their respective settings. (2P1P)

Workshop sponsors, including, GSA USA Intergovernmental Solutions Division, the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the Federal CIO Council and National Coordination Office of the Interagency Committee on IT R&D (Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development (SEW) Coordinating Group) value this “frontier outpost” to open up quality conversations, augmented by information technology, that leverage the collaborative capacity of united and diverse Americans seeking to discover, frame, and act on national potentials. (2P1N)

A key finding of the past year, is the need to apply emerging technologies (web services, grid computing, and semantic web) to tune up the innovation pipeline with better linkages among business incubators (state economic development programs), innovation diffusion networks (SBIR, angel investors, etc.) and business intelligence centers with quality information about e-government and e-commerce gaps. Many of the agile business components surfacing in the small business innovation world are not easily discovered by e-government managers, resulting in lost or delayed opportunities for both parties. (2P1O)

Questions for Workshops in 2009 - 2010 (3VTE)

People (3VTF)

1. What are the conducive conditions for the creativity and governance needed among networked scientific and scholarly communities so results and implications flow in a timely manner into legal, public policy, and national innovation preparedness channels? (3VTG)
- Is there a national challenge more compelling than successfully organizing to deliver broad-based economic returns from enabling collaborations, augmented by light-weight, yet robust technologies? (3VTH)
  - What are the hidden dimensions of this on-going global challenge of unprecedented scale, complexity, and significance to the health, safety, and well-being of people everywhere? (3VTI)
  - How can effective roles and responsibilities be established for a myriad of professionals from multiple settings who need to respond to "overlapping" uncertainties with effective collaboration in an ever-expanding, data and information-rich world? (3VTJ)
    - How can this cultural dimension of governance maturity be appropriately factored in to the community adoption aspects of technology evaluations? (3VTK)
  - What are the contributions of "open standards" and other forms of "openness" in this global innovation process? (3VTL)
2. What strategies are emerging to advance the public's awareness and participation in public health, public policy, scientific, and scholarly knowledge infrastructures as part of a larger national innovation preparedness initiative? (3VTM)
- What aspects of national innovation preparedness will most benefit from coordination that includes open dialogue in public settings? (3VTN)
- What is the role of non-technical elements, such as business narratives, in advancing the shared understanding and governance required when organizing a multi-stakeholder process to address a challenge or opportunity? (3VTO)
  - How do we create commonly understood problem representations and simulations to help multiple disciplines and geographic regions build capacity for joint action that addresses our need for agile and comprehensive societal innovations? (3VTP)
  - Can we see in the future of creative collaborative efforts (e.g. public health, urban planning, disaster management) a future that transcends what has passed? (3VTQ)
    - What concrete steps are presently possible toward this future, including what institutions have a shared mission for improved law, science, innovation, and public policy as reflected in their strategic plans? (3VTR)
      - See 400 strategic plans rendered in Strategy Markup Language for ease of discovery, understanding, and comparability (3VTS)

Process (3VTT)

1. How can effective narratives be assembled and presented for large-scale learning exercises and effective communications in real situations? (3VTU)
- How do we provide the right sets of information flowing into and out of "what if" mission-policy simulations, etc. so understanding flows broadly even when the learning is experiential? (3VTV)
- Are there augmentative technologies that can preserve the artifacts of large-scale learning exercises and real events with sufficient integrity relative to provenance, completeness, and bias in order to leverage continuous improvements? (3VTW)
- How can shared knowledge cyberinfrastructures emerging from multi-disciplinary efforts (e.g. public health, emergency management, public utilities, national innovation preparedness, and critical infrastructures) be validated and valued as public goods and national assets? (3VTX)
  - What are the weakest links relative to the unprecedented scale and mix of people, process, and technology and how can they be remediated? (3VTY)
2. How can the right information and information structures support effective technology evaluation? (3VTZ)
- How can critical information from multiple sectors and domains be right "at hand", "in place", and appropriately accessed, when needed to structure a cohesive case that provides the right depth and breadth for effective evaluations over time? (3VU0)
  - How well can augmentative technologies support meaningful information access from disparate sources in response to emergency collaboration efforts? (3VU1)
3. Building on the organizational successes of "IT incubator" initiatives for economic development at all levels of government, what new Web-related communication and collaboration cyberinfrastructures are now emerging to augment a balanced, multi-stakeholder innovation process throughout its life-cycle? (3VU2)
- How can public policy stakeholders tap Web 2.0 "build to share" principles being advanced by forward-looking information stewardship organizations in order to broaden common understanding of multi-faceted aspects of national/ global challenges and accelerate discovery of exemplary practices and innovative technologies? (3VU3)
  - a) Digital data and information communities advancing sound approaches for electronically stored information. Examples include librarians, curators, web content managers, ontologists, researchers, artists, historians, data managers, and records managers. (3VU4)
    - b) Open Standards bodies and consortia (3VU5)
    - c) Universities and university consortia (3VU6)
    - d) International stewardship associations (3VU7)
    - e) Virtual organizations (3VU8)
4. How could lightweight semantics developed through multi-stakeholder governance complement open format, robust storage, and fluid search to help integrate disparate information sources that support better national innovation preparedness? (3VU9)
- How could authoritative versions of existing policies, regulations, and legal procedures currently in place, be complemented by a "collective wisdom" version in order to broaden opportunities for suggested improvements, harmonization across boundaries, and creation of "synthetic" documents for easier comparison and constrast across institutions? (3VUA)
- What are the changing roles and responsibilities around shared ownership, safety, security, licensing, etc. that need to be explicit and transparent (i.e. assurance case) in innovation framework agreements among multiple partners? (3VUB)
- How can we meet sustainability of documentation challenges, including Records Management and the preservation of records of collaboration over time? (3VUC)
  - What augmentative technologies are emerging and how can they be evaluated? (3VUD)
- What are the emerging strategies and technologies for advancing legal and public policy collections with the resilience to mitigate disruptions or degradations over time? (3VUE)

Technology (3VUF)

1. What are the current and future contributions of light-weight aggregator tools for advancing discovery, shared understanding, and organizing for stronger innovation capacity that scales across individuals, communities of practice, and institutions? How can these tools help us be individually accountable for collaborative actions relative to shared purpose? Examples in use by this workshop community include: wiki namesake pages, Emerging Technology Life-cycle process and Strategy Markup Language (StratML) (3VUG)

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