Past and Future Collaborative Expedition Workshops (40DI)
Collaborative Expedition Workshop #77, October 7, 2008, at NSF (3YI2)
Title: Exploring the Virtual Organization Landscape: Cyberinfrastructure Readiness for Emergency Response (3YI3)
- How to RSVP, Workshop Location/ Directions, and Remote Teleconferencing (3YI5)
- Workshop Purpose (3YI6)
- Workshop Questions (3YI7)
- Agenda (3YI8)
- Draft Resources (3YIA)
- Workshop Series Background (3YI9)
A. Workshop Purpose (3YIB)
This workshop will explore the emerging cyberinfrastructure landscape for light-weight virtual organizing, simulation, and emergency communications exchange capabilities, including how to advance conducive conditions for national preparedness. Building on best practices from international disaster preparedness standards to on-going state and local efforts, participants will have the opportunity to learn and contribute to this on-going challenge of unprecedented scale, complexity, and significance to national health and security. Participants will explore how simulated "practice & high-performance readiness hubs" are built on credible commitments and foresight from multiple forms of expertise. Such commitments, expressed in open standards, enable coherent, yet comprehensive visual and auditory information flows. This collective communications and discernment capacity outperforms "command and control-only" organizing. (40E7)
The impact of open standards for national readiness at both strategic and solution levels will be highlighted by examining the forces, timing, and artifacts by which transformative standards emerge. How can early lessons from these intensive, rapid action, and high performance settings, anticipate and influence the pace in which similar transformative improvements in mission delivery of non-emergency public services can be realized, across levels of government? (40E8)
This workshop will open up dialogue to facilitate "bootstrapping" among multiple communities and institutions whose individual and collective contributions to shared design challenges will shape our national experience of cyberinfrastructure for years to come. (40E9)
This workshop will provide an example of how to set up the conditions by which groups that may not have regular opportunities to share information outside of their agency boundaries and jurisdictions can be brought together. This will support the development of a broader vision among stakeholders engaged in Emergency Management challenges, from Health Informatics to Building Information Modeling, and beyond. (3YNU)
It is likely that how we design our cyberinfrastructure (including emergency-based and non-emergency knowledge-sharing environments that influence policy-making, innovation, and agility) will play a pivotal role in the continued vitality and creativity of our 21st century democracy. (40EA)
This workshop also builds on related Collaborative Expedition workshops held in 2008: (3YID)
- The Power of Story and Open Standards in National Preparedness, February 19, 2008 (3YIE)
- Exploring Identity Management: Global Landscape and Implications for Stakeholder Engagement Around the National Response Framework, April 30, 2008, in conjunction with Interoperability Week at NIST (3YNV)
In addition, this workshop will demonstrate an organizing process that can be employed anytime a purpose cuts across organizational boundaries. This is timely for workshop participants who have come to appreciate that building trusted relationships is the essence of eGovernment. How people design the organizing process for potentially “collaborative” settings, existing beyond traditional boundaries, can spell the difference between “multiplicative power” and “no power” arising to achieve high performance results that matter to all. (3YIG)
"It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human culture, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow." Werner Heisenberg (3YIJ)
"Creativity is a process that can be observed only at the intersection where individuals, domains, and fields intersect." Csikszentmihalyi, 1999 (3YIK)
"Architecture is the thoughtful making of space." Louis Kahn (3YIL)
"Information is the currency of democracy." Thomas Jefferson (3YIM)
"Design is the currency of the 21st century." American Institute of Architects (3YIN)
Workshop planning provides an opportunity to experience shared stewardship around broad mission goals that include: (3YIP)
- To be of service, in cross-boundary settings, not only to the region, but to the nation (3YIQ)
- To contribute to successful innovation toward citizen-centric government (3YIR)
- To learn by doing, to put into practice the results of our own dialogue (3YIS)
- To experience the kind of complex, multidimensional organizational situation that is providing the background for strategic leadership (3YIT)
B. Draft Workshop Questions (3YIU)
- 1. What aspects of national preparedness will most benefit from coordination that includes open dialogue in public settings? (3YIV)
- 2. How do we create commonly understood problem representations and simulations to help multiple disciplines and geographic regions build capacity for joint action? (3YIW)
- 3. How can the right information and information structures support effective problem representation? (40EB)
- 4. How can critical information from multiple sectors and domains be right "at hand", "in place", and appropriately accessed, when needed? (40EC)
- 5. How can effective roles and responsibilities be established for a myriad of professionals from multiple settings who need to respond to uncertainties with effective collaboration in an ever-expanding, data and information-rich world? (40ED)
- 6. What is the role of business narratives in advancing the shared understanding and governance required to mitigate risks? (40EE)
- 7. How can effective narratives be assembled and presented for large-scale learning exercises and effective communications in real situations? (40EF)
- 8. How can the artifacts of large-scale learning exercises and real events be preserved with sufficient integrity relative to provenance, completeness, and bias to leverage continuous improvements in readiness? (40EG)
- 9. How can problem representation and knowledge emerging from multi-disciplinary efforts (e.g. public health, emergency management, public utilities, and critical infrastructures) be validated and valued as national assets? (40EH)
- 10. What are the weakest links relative to the unprecedented scale and mix of people, process, and technology and how can they be remediated? (3YIF)
- 11. 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? (3YIX)
- 12. 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? (3YIY)
- 13. What are the current and future contributions of light-weight aggregator tools for advancing discovery, shared understanding, and organizing 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) (3YJ0)
- 14. How could lightweight semantics complement open format, robust storage, and fluid search to help integrate disparate information sources that support better national preparedness? (3YJ1)
- 15. 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? (3YJ2)
- 16. 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? (3YJ3)
- 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. (3YJ4)
- b) Open Standards bodies and consortia (3YJ5)
- c) Universities and university consortia (3YJ6)
- d) International stewardship associations (3YJ7)
- e) Virtual organizations (3YJ8)
- 17. How do we build from the best of past experiences and also draw upon generational differences and cyberinfrastructure opportunities in a manner that reinforces strengths? (e.g. tap software engineering techniques – fine grained recording of “Who did what” transparency at the code level) (3YJ9)
- 18. 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? (3YJD)
- 19. What are the conducive conditions for the creativity and governance needed among networked emergency response communities so results and implications flow in a timely manner into legal, public policy, and public preparedness channels? (3YJE)
- 20. If information-flow impediments across domains are similar, would solutions likewise be similar? (40BW)
- 21. If solutions are similar across domains and an overall architecture emerges, what metrics do we need to provide analytical accountability and close the IT transactional lifecycle (cybernetic feedback loop) for continuous improvement? (40BX)
- 22. How will XML take hold and where? (40EW)
- 23. (40EX)
General Questions for Workshops in 2008 (40ES)
C. Agenda (3YJH)
9:00 a.m. - Check-in and Coffee (3YJI)
9:15 a.m. - Welcome and Introductions. [ slides ] . [ audio ] (3YJJ)
SusanTurnbull, GSA and Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee and Co-Chair, Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT CG (3YJK)
RichardSpivack, NIST and Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (3YJL)
9:30 a.m. - Who is Here and Who is Missing? What is your Sense of Purpose in Relation to the Overall Workshop Goals? (3YJM)
10:10 a.m. - Role and Implications of Modeling and Simulation for Emergency Preparedness, Charles McLean, NIST . [ slides ] . [ audio ] (40B0)
10:55 a.m. - Building the Virtual Cyberinfrastructure, (40B7)
- Loosely Coupled Emergency Services in a SOA: Demonstration and Presentation of Emergency Response Scenarios based on 2006 California Golden Guardian Exercise and 2008 Northern California Silver Sentinel Exercise: [ combined slide deck for the next 7 presentations (20.8 MB) ] (40BD)
- Integrated Response Service Consortium (IRSC), Introduced by Rex Brooks. (Note: slide set for IRSC in following item contains slides for remaining presentations, except Flash video, through Lunch Break.) [ [ [ slides 1 ~ 7] ] . [ audio ] (40B9)
- Golden Gate Safety Network's Common Operating Picture presented by David Coggeshall; . [ [ slides 8 ~ 32] ] . [ audio ] (40BA)
- Implementation of OASIS Common Alerting Protocol v1.1 & SOA Registry, Adam Humphrey, Scalable Architecture, Your Global Grid . [ demo video (flash - 6.5 MB) ] . [ [ slides 33 ~ 34] ] (40BB)
- NIST's Exercise Control System presented by Charles McLean, with Guillaume Radde . [ [ slides 35 ~ 52] ] . [ audio ] (40BC)
- Introduction to Implementations of OASIS Emergency Data Exchange Language Resource Messaging v1.0 Specification EDXL-RM presented by Rex Brooks; (40E5)
- Emergency Response Management System Prototype - Alessandro Triglia, Member of OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee, Member of Messages and Notification Subcommittee, Editor of OASIS EDXL-RM v1.0 - OSS Nokalva; . [ [ slides 53 ~ 104] ] . [ audio ] (40B1)
- Integrated Open Source Application of EDXL_RM - Rex Brooks, Member of OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee, Co-Chair of Messages and Notification Subcommittee, Editor of OASIS EDXL-RM v1.0 . [ [ slides 105 ~ 110] ] . [ audio ] (40E6)
11:45 a.m. - Ongoing Efforts: Adding Building Information Model (BIM) Resources and BIMStorm-style Visualization and Information Delivery Systems to the "Common Operating Picture;" Adding Metrics and Analytics, MichelleRaymond . [ [ slides 111 ~ 128] ] . [ audio ] (40B2)
12:05 p.m. - The Role of Emerging Open Standards in the National Response Framework: a Report on Ongoing Work and Looking Forward to Focusing on Emergency Healthcare, Rex Brooks . [ [ slides 129 ~ 140] ] . [ audio ] (40B4)
12:30 noon - 1:30 p.m. - Networking Lunch (3YJQ)
1:30 p.m. - On the Intersection of Behavior and Technology: Information Flow Impediments in Katrina Relief Efforts, Jamison M. Day, Ph.D., Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston . [ slides ] . [ audio ] (3YJR)
2:15 p.m. - BREAK (40C3)
2:40 pm - Break Out Sessions: (40C4)
- What Works? (40C5)
- What Doesn't Work? (40C6)
- What do We Need to Create? (40C7)
- What do We Need to Know? (40C8)
/Workshop_10_07_2008_BreakOutGroup_One (remote teleconference only) (40C9)
/Workshop_10_07_2008_BreakOutGroup_Two (40CA)
/Workshop_10_07_2008_BreakOutGroup_Three (40CB)
/Workshop_10_07_2008_BreakOutGroup_Four (40CC)
3:40 pm - Report out from Break Out Sessions and Discussion (40CF)
4:30 pm - Wrap-up and Adjourn (40CG)
D. Draft Resources (3YJY)
1. Federal Agencies and Partnerships (40EJ)
- Department of Homeland Security, Preparedness and Response (40DQ)
- Department of Homeland Security, First Responders (40DS)
- Department of Homeland Security, Office of Health Affairs Department of Homeland Security, Federal Partnership for Interoperable Communications (40DU)
- National Response Framework, Department of Homeland Security, January, 2008 (40DO)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Citizen Corps, CERT (40DK)
- Community Emergency Response Teams (40DL)
- FEMA Emergency Management Institute (40DM)
- FEMA, National Fire Academy Online Training (40DT)
- HSEEP initiative from FEMA (403M)
- FEMA National Incident Management System (NIMS) Community (3YLR)
- After Ike, Federal Resources Support Response, Recovery, FEMA, Sept. 18, 2008 (40DV)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/simconf/mns4er.htm (3YJZ)
- Department of Health and Human Services, ATSDR, Emergency Response (40DN)
- Dept. of Health and Human Services - Building Cultural Competency for Emergency Responders (3YK7)
- Centers for Disease Control Emergency Preparedness and Response (40DJ)
- GSA Office of Emergency Response and Recovery (40DP)
2. Non-profit Organizations (40EK)
- Accuracy&Aesthetics[NBIMSinContext] (40ET)
- COMCARE Emergency Response Alliance (40DY)
- National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue - http://www.niusr.org and http:// www.niusrjournal.org (3YK6)
- Emergency Interoperability Consortium (3YLS)
- Integrated Response Services Consortium (3YLW)
- Open Ontology Repository (3YLQ)
- See Feb. 14, 2008 session of the Ontolog Community of Practice on Ontology Applications in Emergency Response - both slides and audio recording are available at this link (3YK8)
4. Recent Legislation (40EL)
4. Transitioning to Virtual Organizations (40EM)
- Building Effective Virtual Organizations workshop, report from NSF workshop held January 16-18, 2008 (40BT)
- A Collaboration Wizard: A set of factors that lead to success with suggested remedies for deficiencies (3YK9)
- UMBEL: A Lightweight Subject Reference Structure for the Web, Presentation at the Emerging Ontology Showcase, Sept. 25, 2008 (40GI)
- Health-Grid: Grid Technologies for Biomedicine, TATRC, November, 2007 (3YKG)
- Wireless Information for Emergency Responders (WISER), National Library of Medicine (40DX)
- Shake It All About: How to Use Your Laptop to Locate an Earthquake, The Economist, September 25, 2008 (earthquake detection from registered laptops - using seti@home principles (40EO)
- http://hazmat.dot.gov/pubs/erg/gydebook.htm Emergency Response Guidebook 2008, US Department of Transportation, Transport Canada, and Secretariat of Communications and Transportation of Mexico] (40DW)
- UNDP report on the Tsunami of 2004 - Communicating Disasters: An Asia-Pacific Resource Book (3YK1)
- Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century, National Science Foundation, Cyberinfrastructure Council, March 2007 (3YK4)
- http://ET.gov - forming virtual communities to accelerate maturation and adoption of emerging technology, Emerging Technology SC (3YKB)
- Papers from Jan 29-30, 2007 conference on Designing Cyberinfrastructure for Collaboration and Innovation (3YKD)
- Balancing Practice-Centered Research and Design, David Woods and Klaus Christoffersen (See page 10 - The Engine of Innovation: Interlocking the Cycles of Research and Development) (3YKE)
- Information Sharing Environment Enterprise Architecture Framework, version 1.0, August 2007 (3YKF)
5. Relevant Open Standards (40EN)
- Developing and Using Standards for Data and Information in Science and Technology, John Rumble, Jr., Gail Hodge, and Laura Bartolo (3YKA)
- OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee (3YLJ)
- OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee Wiki (40E0)
- Common Alerting Protocol v1.1 (used internationally) (3YLK)
- Reverse 911 (3YLT)
- EDXL - Emergency Data Exchange Language Specifications (3YLL)
- EDXL-RM - EDXL - Resource Messaging (40E2)
- EDXL-DE - Distribution Element (40E3)
- EDXL-RIM - Reference Information Model (will include ontological representation) (3YLM)
- EDXL-HAVE - Hospital AVailability Exchange (3YLN)
- Cooperative Alert Information and Resource Notification System (40E4)
- SOA RM (Reference Model) (3YLP)
- National (Federal) Programs (3YMA)
- National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) - one of the foundations of EDXL (3YLU)
- Integrated Public Alerting and Warning System (IPAWS) (3YLV)
- National Building Information Model Standard (3YKC)
E. Collaborative Expedition Workshop Series Background (3YKH)
Purpose and Audience: GSA's USA Services Intergovernmental Solutions Office leads monthly Collaborative Expedition workshops to advance the quality of citizen-government dialogue and collaborations at the crossroads of intergovernmental initiatives, Communities of Practice, Federal IT research and IT user agencies. The workshops seek to advance collaborative innovations in government and community services such as emergency preparedness, environmental monitoring, healthcare and law enforcement. (3YKI)
The workshops serve individuals from government, business, and non-government organizations to practice an emerging societal form, Communities of Practice (CoPs) or Communities of Interest (CoIs), that augment Government project teams, in a manner responsive to the Citizen-Centric Government goal of the President’s Management Agenda and the Public Information Access provisions of the E-government Act of 2002. (3YKJ)
As Communities of Practice form around priorities (Enterprise Architecture, Semantic Interoperability, Geospatial, Community Knowledge Network, Emergency Preparedness, etc.) it is essential to gain experience in designing an organizing process to advance the human relationships that “power” the ultimate success of these endeavors. As Professor David D. Woods states, “In design, we either hobble or support people’s natural ability to express forms of expertise.” Experience gained from the design of this workshop will influence how we design future forums. Individually and as a community, we’ll be better able to appreciate and tap strategic leadership from a wide variety of sources, including local, state and regional settings where quality dialogue yields the “line of sight” connection needed by all stakeholders to engage in joint action toward shared goals. (3YKK)
Each workshop organizes participation around a common purpose, larger than any institution, including government. By learning how to appreciate multiple perspectives around potentials and realities of this larger “purpose”, subsequent actions by individuals representing many forms of expertise, can be better expressed in their home and collaborative settings. By centering around people and the "whole system" challenges they organize around, IT design and development processes can mature with less risk and greater national yield of breakthrough performance. (3YKL)
Joint workshop sponsors in addition to GSA, include the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the Federal CIO Council, and the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development Coordinating Group. These organizations value this “frontier outpost” to open up quality conversations, augmented by information technology, to leverage the collaborative capacity of united, but diverse sectors of society, seeking to discover, frame, and act on national and international potentials. (3YKM)