Past and Future Collaborative Expedition Workshops (3U1Q)
Collaborative Expedition Workshop #69, January 29, 2008, at NSF (3U1R)
Title: Transcending Socio-Cultural Boundaries in Virtual Work Settings: Creative Collaboration Efforts At the Intersection of Law and Public Policy (3U1S)
- How to RSVP, Workshop Location/ Directions, and Remote Teleconferencing (3U1T)
- Agenda... Print Version (3U1W)
- Workshop Purpose (3U1U)
- Workshop Questions (3U1V)
- Expected Workshop Participants (3U1X)
- Workshop Series Background (3U1Y)
- Draft Resources (3U1Z)
- Notes and Draft Scenarios for All FY08 Workshops based on Sept. 18 Collaborative Design Workshop (3U20)
A. Workshop Purpose (3U21)
This workshop provides an opportunity for participants to explore conducive conditions at the intersection of law and public policy that are leading to greater collaboration and transparency to the workings of government. How can the right information support effective problem representation? How can critical information from multiple domains and settings (discipline, culture, and temporal) be right "at hand", "in place", and publicly accessible, when needed? What are the changing roles and responsibilities of professionals from law, public policy, science, and other settings as they seek creative collaboration in an ever-expanding, data and information-rich world? What are the potentials and realities for virtual work environments and knowledge diffusion through use of Web 2.0 applications, including wikis, blogging, and social networking? How can knowledge narratives and claims be assembled, presented, and preserved with sufficient integrity relative to provenance, completeness, and known bias? How can problem representation and knowledge emerging from multi-disciplinary efforts (e.g. law, public policy, science, and business) be validated and valued as national assets and public goods? (3U2B)
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. (3U6D)
The workshop opens up dialogue to facilitate "bootstrapping" among multiple communities learning how to advance broad public service goals and leverage engagement opportunities associated with Web 2.0. Participants will share lessons learned from frontier settings that support collaborative inquiry, design and development. (3U2D)
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. (3U2E)
"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 (3U2F)
"Creativity is a process that can be observed only at the intersection where individuals, domains, and fields intersect." Csikszentmihalyi, 1999 (3U2G)
"Architecture is the thoughtful making of space." Louis Kahn (3U2H)
"Information is the currency of democracy." Thomas Jefferson (3U2I)
"Design is the currency of the 21st century." American Institute of Architects (3U2J)
It is likely that how we design our physical and virtual knowledge sharing environments (including scientific knowledge that will influence policy-making and innovation) will play a pivotal role in the continued vitality and creativity of our 21st century democracy. The workshop will open up dialogue to facilitate "bootstrapping" among multiple communities and institutions committed to advancing civic design in the public realm, including scientific, educational, and cultural heritage institutions. The workshop also supports information exchange among Federal Enterprise Architecture improvement activities advancing citizen-centric government in 2008, including Architecture Principles for The US Government (issued by CIO Council, effective date Aug. 24, 2007). (3U2K)
Workshop planning provides an opportunity to experience shared stewardship around broad mission goals that include: (3U2L)
- To be of service, in cross-boundary settings, not only to the region, but to the nation (3U2M)
- To contribute to successful innovation toward citizen-centric government (3U2N)
- To learn by doing, to put into practice the results of our own dialogue (3U2O)
- To experience the kind of complex, multidimensional organizational situation that is providing the background for strategic leadership (3U2P)
B. Workshop Questions (3U2Q)
- 1. What are the Public Goods inherent to Problem Representation, Knowledge Assembly, Diffusion, and Innovation in the Public Realm? What are the documentation and access issues of electronic government? (3U2R)
- 2. Can we see in the future of creative collaborative efforts (e.g. law and public policy) a future that transcends what has passed? Can we overcome current challenges such as the assault on privacy? (3U61)
- 3. 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? (3U2S)
- 4. 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) (3U2U)
- 5. How could lightweight semantics complement open format, robust storage, and fluid search to help integrate disparate information sources that support better policy-making? (3U62)
- 6.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 contrast across institutions? (3U29)
- 7. 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? (3U2V)
- 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. (3U2W)
- b) Open Standards bodies and consortia (3U2X)
- c) Universities and university consortia (3U2Y)
- d) International stewardship associations (3U2Z)
- e) Virtual organizations (3V2C)
- 8. How can we open up dialogue around Business, Public Policy, and Legal Narratives that address socio-cultural boundary challenges including: multilingual and multicultural? (3U30)
- 9. How do we create commonly understood problem representations and simulations to help multiple disciplines with multiple "professional languages collaborate effectively during rapid change (including moral and ethical implications)? (3U31)
- 10. How do we build from the best of past scientific research 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) (3U33)
- 11. What strategies are emerging to advance the public's awareness and participation in legal, public policy, scientific, and scholarly knowledge infrastructures? (3U56)
- 12. How can we meet sustainability of documentation challenges, including Records Management and the preservation of records of collaboration over time? (3U32)
- 13. What are the emerging strategies for advancing legal and public policy collections with the resilience to mitigate disruptions or degradations over time? (3U57)
- 14. 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? (3U35)
- 15. 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 and public policy channels? (3U37)
C. Expected Participants (3U38)
D. Agenda (3U3A)
8:30 a.m. - Check-in and Coffee (3U5W)
8:45 a.m. - Welcome and Introductions (3U3B)
SusanTurnbull, GSA and Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee and Co-Chair, Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT CG (3U3C)
JasonRBaron, Director of Litigation, NARA, (3U3D)
RichardSpivack, NIST and Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (3V2F)
9:00 a.m. - Who is Here and Who is Missing? What is your Sense of Purpose in Relation to the Overall Workshop Goals? (3U3F)
9:30 a.m. - Musings on Social Media and The Public Sector Lawyer: Challenges and Opportunities (3U3G)
JasonRBaron, Director of Litigation, NARA (3U3H)
10:15 a.m. - BREAK (3U3I)
10:30 a.m. - Web 2.0: Potentials and Realities for Innovation in the Changing Legal and Public Policy Environment (3U3J)
11:15 a.m. - Web 2.0 and Intellipedia: Potentials and Realities for Transforming Workflow and Knowledge Management in the Changing Intelligence Environment (3UPV)
SeanDennehy, Chief of Intellipedia, CIA and (3UX4)
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. - Networking Lunch (3U3M)
1:00 p.m. - Reflections on How to Evolve to a 21st Century Collaboration Model: Commentators panel (3U8Z)
Paul Wester, Director, Modern Records Management Program, NARA (3U3P)
Richard Graham, Chief Compliance Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (3U90)
1:45 p.m. - Discussion (3UUK)
- This recent blog post from 2008 provides an excellent and succinct summary of why knowledge management has failed in the past and why it is necessary to make knowledge management a natural part of the process (3V4Z)
- See also these two videos by Professor Wesch, a professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. (3V50)
2:15 p.m. - Break-out Sessions (3U5X)
- 1. How will Shared Missions and Cross-Boundary Legal and Public Policy Goals of Institutions be collaboratively advanced in 2008? (3U5Y)
- 2. How can this emerging organizing process be advanced at upcoming Collaborative Expedition workshops in FY08? (3U5Z)
- 3. What organizations and individuals do we need to include? (3U60)
- 4. What Works? (3V2T)
- 5. What Doesn't Work? (3V2U)
- 6. What do We Need to Create? (3V2V)
- 7. What do We Need to Know? (3V2W)
/Workshop_01_29_2008_BreakOutGroup_One (remote teleconference only) (3V2X)
/Workshop_01_29_2008_BreakOutGroup_Two (3V2Y)
/Workshop_01_29_2008_BreakOutGroup_Three (3V2Z)
/Workshop_01_29_2008_BreakOutGroup_Four (3V30)
3:30 p.m. - Report out from Break-out session and Discussion (3U3S)
4:15 p.m. - Adjourn and Networking (3U3T)
Future Collaborative Expedition Workshop Planning Notes and Draft Scenarios based on September 18 Workshop Brainstorming (3U3U)
E. Collaborative Expedition Workshop Series Background (3U3V)
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. (3U3W)
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. (3U3X)
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. (3U3Y)
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. (3U3Z)
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. (3U40)
- http://www.gsa.gov/collaborate (3U41)
- http://www.nitrd.gov (3U42)
- Using the Collaborative Work Environment: December 4 Orientation Teleconference (3U43)
F. Draft Resources (3U44)
1. Appreciation of Potentials / Tapping Creativity (3U45)
- Science of Science and Innovation Policy - A Prospectus, NSF, Directorate for Social, Economic and Behavioral Science, Sept. 6, 2007 (3U46)
- Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy Advisory Committee (3U47)
- Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information - accelerating diffusion of knowledge and scientific progress (3U48)
- Technology and the Public Domain Conference, Jan. 18, 2998, Turin, Italy (3UIL)
- Toward a Science of Science Policy: a brief overview of Federal interagency activities, Irma Arispe, Ph.D., Office of Science and Technology Policy, February, 17, 2007 (3U49)
- Kronberg Declaration of the Future of Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing, UNESCO High Level Group of Visionaries on Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing, Kronberg, Germany, 22-23 June, 2007 (3U4A)
- Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century, National Science Foundation, Cyberinfrastructure Council, March 2007 (3U4B)
- Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation Initiative, National Science Foundation, FY08 (3U4C)
- Designing Cyberinfrastructure For Collaboration and Innovation, January 29-30, 2007, sponsored by Committee for Economic Development, Council on Competitiveness, National Science Foundation, Science Commons, University of Michigan (3U4D)
- International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (3U4E)
- 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) (3U4F)
- Toward More Transparent Government, Workshop on e-Government and Web, June 18-19 (3U4G)
- FEA Reference Model Mapping Guide (3U4H)
- Report to the William and Floral Hewlett Foundation: A Review of the Open Educational Resources Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities, February 2007, Daniel E. Atkins, John Seely Brown, and Allen L. Hammond (3U4I)
2. Tools / Approaches / Deployment (3U4J)
- Open Legal Standards Initiative (3U93)
- - WikiLaw (3U92)
- Wiki-based encyclopedia devoted to worldwide law, legal, and political sciences (3U91)
- Welcome to USASpending.gov Where Americans Can See Where Their Money Goes (3U6E)
- U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress (3U6C)
- Creative Commons Wiki (3U6B)
- A Collaboration Wizard: A set of factors that lead to success with suggested remedies for deficiencies (3U4K)
- Enterprise SPICE initative (3U4L)
- http://ET.gov - social networking and the emergence of technology (3U4M)
- Knowledge Sharing Innovations in the Natural Resources Community: a toolkit for community-based project teams, Center for Technology in Government, 2007 (3U4N)
- CENDI (3U4O)
- WorldWideScience.org (3U4P)
- Network Workbench (3U4Q)
- Cyberinfrastructure Shell (3U4R)
- http://www.osgi.org (3U4S)
- Science Commons (3U4T)
- Science-specific search engine (3U4U)
- Many Eyes (3U4V)
- Swivel's mission is to make data useful (3U4W)
- NIH Public Access Policy (3U4X)
- Papers from Jan 29-30, 2007 conference on Designing Cyberinfrastructure for Collaboration and Innovation (3U4Y)
- The Public Domain of Digital Research Data (3U4Z)
- Croquet Consortium (3U50)
- Ontology Summit 2007 - a case study in a virtual community's process and effort to research, develop and capture semantics and knowledge. (3U51)
- 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) (3U52)
- Information Sharing Environment Enterprise Architecture Framework, version 1.0, August 2007 (3U53)