ExpeditionWorkshop/OrganizingCollaborativeExpeditionWorkshops 2007 EnvisioningPossibilities OpeningUpDialogue 2007 09 18

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)

None of Us is As Smart as All of Us: Facilitating Collaboration in the Virtual and Built Environments    (3P15)

Draft title: Modeling and Simulation: Walking Through Virtual Worlds Together to Advance Shared Purpose    (3P3Y)

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)

Draft title: Using Business Narratives for High Performance and Innovation: Roadmap to Regulate Realities or Flight Plan for Finding Frontier Potentials    (3P41)

Draft title: Broadening Participation With Cyberinfrastructure: Toward Stakeholder-Centered Science and Engineering in the Public Realm    (3P42)

Draft title: The Emerging Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Scientific Knowledge Validation, Education, and Peer Review    (3P43)

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)

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)

Draft title: The Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Scientific Knowledge Validation, Emergence, and Peer Review    (3P46)

Draft title: The Emerging Role of Virtual World Simulations for Successful Innovation and Aging by Individuals, Communities, and Institutions    (3P47)

Draft title: Scientific Knowledge Diffusion and Emergence: When the Best Wisdom of the Past Informs our Shared Future    (3P48)

Draft title: Discovering Present Day Communities Best Able to Co-Create Public Information Environments that Strengthen Citizen-Government Relationships    (3P49)

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)