Past Collaborative Expedition Workshops (3NZ5)
Collaborative Expedition Workshop #65, September 18, 2007, at NSF (3NKN)
Organizing Collaborative Expedition Workshops in 2007-08: Envisioning Possibilities and Opening Up Dialogue Across Communities (3NKO)
Collaborative Expedition Workshop #65 Summary: Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios for the Coming Year based on September 18 Brainstorming (3P4A)
1. Purpose/ Description (3NKP)
This workshop provides an opportunity for participants to explore the potentials and realities for Collaborative Expedition Workshops in the remainder of FY2007 and FY2008. 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. (3NKR)
The President's Management Agenda (PMA) requires all federal agencies to transform the roles and relationships among people, processes, and technology in order to become a citizen-centered government. The PMA emphasizes bringing value and results to citizens, businesses, and government workers by "reducing the burden" and producing measurable improvement. (3NKQ)
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. (3NKS)
"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 (3NZ0)
"Creativity is a process that can be observed only at the intersection where individuals, domains, and fields intersect." Csikszentmihalyi, 1999 (3NZ1)
Workshop planning provides an opportunity to experience shared stewardship around broad mission goals that include: (3NKT)
- To be of service, in cross-boundary settings, not only to the region, but to the nation (3NKU)
- To contribute to successful innovation toward citizen-centric government (3NKV)
- To learn by doing, to put into practice the results of our own dialogue (3NKW)
- To experience the kind of complex, multidimensional organizational situation that is providing the background for strategic leadership (3NKX)
Date/ Venue/ Logistics (3NKY)
- Date/ Time: Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 9:00 - 12:00 noon (3NKZ)
- Venue: National Science Foundation (Ballston, Virginia) (3NL0)
- RSVP required: Please respond to susan.turnbull@gsa.gov to register for a badge if you plan to attend. (3NL1)
- Onsite Attendees - Directions: (3NL2)
- Remote Attendees (3O4U)
- dial-in number for remote participation: 800-857-9370 (3O4V)
- PASSCODE: 34607 (3O4W)
- Shared Screen support: (will be available 5 minutes before session starts and throughout the workshop) (3N0H)
- point browser to: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800 (3O5J)
- view-only password = colab (3O5K)
- point browser to: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800 (3O5J)
- There are some useful hints at: OntologWiki:VirtualSpeakerSessionTips (3O5L)
- dial-in number for remote participation: 800-857-9370 (3O4V)
Expected Participants (3NOL)
DRAFT Agenda (3NL8)
9:00 a.m. - Welcome and Introductions - SusanTurnbull, GSA and SuziIacono, NSF, co-chairs, SEW Coordinating Group (3NL9)
9:15 a.m. - Who is Here and Who is Missing? What is your Sense of Purpose around Collaborative Expedition Workshops in 2008? (3NLA)
10:00 a.m. - BREAK (3NLB)
10:15 a.m. - Looking Back and Looking Forward: What are the Strategic Priorities for the 2008 Workshops and What are the relationships that We Can Build Upon? (3NLC)
11:00 a.m. - Commitment to Action and Reflection: How will Shared Missions and Cross-Boundary Goals be Advanced in the 2008 Workshops? (3NLD)
12:00 noon - Adjourn (3NLE)
Collaborative Expedition Workshop Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios for the Coming Year based on September 18 Workshop Brainstorming (3P0V)
Some thoughts for all workshops in FY08: (3PAX)
- How can We See in the Future a Future that Transcends what has Passed? (3PAY)
- How can We Be Individually Accountable for the Course of Actions Evoked by this Process Relative to Purpose? (3PAZ)
- How can We draw out relative potentials from http://et.gov after scenarios and business narratives have been developed for each workshop? (3PB0)
- How can we create an environment that supports individual commitment to relevant action of their choosing based on what an individual has learned and what they believe is possible in their world? (3PB1)
- How can we employ fundamental concepts, patterns, and metaphors, that improve shared understanding by diverse communities? (3PB2)
- How can we engage more CIOs and other decision makers? (3PB3)
- How can we engage other countries around compelling collaborative sharing tools and techniques? (3PB4)
- How can we better understand how projects/groups can learn to "start off on the right foot"? How can we offer, as an outcome of each workshop, a do-able approach for a personal road-mapor group visioning of "what is possible?" (3PBL)
- How can we encourage how groups think about the value they bring to their users (in software terms) and communities (in communication/collaboration terms)? (3PB5)
- How can we better understand the issue of mediated communication as well as collaboration? (3PBM)
- How can we help knowledge transfer from each session? (3PBO)
- What is "actionable"? (3PBP)
- How can we ground presentations and discussions in scenarios that help participants translate what they hear into their words and worlds? (3PB7)
- Workshop #66, Oct. 23 (3P14)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios (3PBA)
None of Us is As Smart as All of Us: Facilitating Collaboration in the Virtual and Built Environments (3P15)
- Workshop #67, Nov. 13 (3P16)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios (3PBB)
Draft title: Modeling and Simulation: Walking Through Virtual Worlds Together to Advance Shared Purpose (3P3Y)
- Workshop #68, Dec. 11 (3P18)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios - 1/2 day organizing workshop (3PBC)
Draft title: Scientific Knowledge Diffusion and Emergence: When the Best Wisdom of the Past Informs our Shared Future (3P3Z)
Draft title: Transcending Socio-Cultural Boundaries in Global Virtual Work Settings: Navigating Laws, Customs, and History (3P40)
- Workshop #70, Feb. (3P1E)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios - 1/2 day organizing workshop (3PBE)
Draft title: Using Business Narratives for High Performance and Innovation: Roadmap to Regulate Realities or Flight Plan for Finding Frontier Potentials (3P41)
- Workshop #71, March (3P1H)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios (3PBQ)
Draft title: Broadening Participation With Cyberinfrastructure: Toward Stakeholder-Centered Science and Engineering in the Public Realm (3P42)
- Workshop #72, April (3P1K)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios - 1/2 day organizing workshop (3PBF)
Draft title: The Emerging Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Scientific Knowledge Validation, Education, and Peer Review (3P43)
- Workshop #73, May (3P1N)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios (3PBG)
Draft title: Identity Management: The Role of Cyberinfrastructure in the Civic Design of Scalable, Sustainable, and Stable Records of Who We Are and Who We are Not (3P44)
- Workshop #74, June (3P1Q)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios - 1/2 Organizing Workshop (3PBH)
Draft title: Holding the Long View: The Emerging Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Maintaining Course While Taking Stock of New Sights and Alternative Courses of Action (3PB9)
- Workshop #75, July (3P1T)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios (3PBR)
Draft title: The Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Scientific Knowledge Validation, Emergence, and Peer Review (3P46)
- Workshop #76, Aug (3P1W)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios - 1/2 day organizing workshop; follow-on from workshops #66-67 (3PBI)
Draft title: The Emerging Role of Virtual World Simulations for Successful Innovation and Aging by Individuals, Communities, and Institutions (3P47)
- Workshop #77, Sept (3P1Z)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios - follow-on from Dec organizing workshop (3PBJ)
Draft title: Scientific Knowledge Diffusion and Emergence: When the Best Wisdom of the Past Informs our Shared Future (3P48)
- Workshop #78, Oct (3P3Q)
- Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios - 1/2 day organizing workshop (3PBK)
Draft title: Discovering Present Day Communities Best Able to Co-Create Public Information Environments that Strengthen Citizen-Government Relationships (3P49)
2. Collaborative Expedition Workshop Series Background (3NLF)
Purpose and Audience: GSA's USA Services/ Intergovernmental 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. (3NLG)
The workshops serve individuals from government, business, and non-government organizations to practice an emerging societal form, Intergovernmental Communities of Practice (CoPs), in light of the Citizen-Centric Government goal of the President’s Management Agenda and the Public Information Access provisions of the E-government Act of 2002. (3NLH)
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. (3NLI)
Joint workshop sponsors in addition to GSA, include the Emerging Technology Subcommittee of the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee and the Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development Coordinating Group of the Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development. 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 potentials. (3NLJ)
3. Past Workshop Archives and Related Resources (3NLK)
- http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop (3NLL)
- http://www.gsa.gov/collaborate (3NLM)
- http://www.nitrd.gov (3NLN)
- Using the Collaborative Work Environment: September 26 Orientation Teleconference (3NY7)
- Information Sharing Environment Enterprise Architecture Framework, version 1.0, August 2007 (3O9Z)
- 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) (3OA0)