| 111 orgs, 25 cities, 17 countries, 2,083 pple, 71 challenges, 100+ solutions in 48 hours. This weekend, NASA successfully fulfilled a commitment on behalf of the United States as part of the Open Government Partnership Domestic Action Plan. The stated goal of the event, per the US Action Plan, was to “promote innovation through international collaboration“. Space exploration [...]
| The Open Government Initiative is excited to invite Syracuse University industrial and interaction design student Katy Jeremko to share about the recent design charrette that Syracuse held in advance of the International Space Apps Challenge. This interactive event offered university students an opportunity to dialogue about space data while helping to shape the proposed challenges and [...]
| We love open source. Open source philosophies and collaboration models resonate deeply with NASA and our mission. Beyond ideology, open source makes it possible for citizens to directly touch their space program in very real ways. The collective genius enabled by open source emboldens us and helps us reach new heights, whether they be in [...]
| I had just started at NASA when I saw Nick Skytland give this presentation on Participatory Exploration, and it captured my imagination. Participatory Exploration View more presentations from Nick Skytland This time you get to participate. Not ‘you get to read about it,’ or ‘you can carry the briefcase of the real heroes.’ Not ‘you get to sit [...]
| This post complements a presentation given at the 2011 NASA IT Summit entitled A Case for Bi-lateral Open Source Development: The Nebula Story and Key Findings from the Open Source Summit. Although written by an attorney, this post is not legal advice or analysis and should not be taken as such. NASA has a special [...]
| The Open Government Initiative was excited to invite KSC’s David Miranda and Ariel Pavlick to share about how they are increasing the awesome at their center with transparency, participation, and collaboration. “Some would say that those struggles are all over, that all the horizons have been explored, that all the battles have been [...]
| NASA Forward Maker Camp has been an effective experiment in new ways to engage the workforce in fast, hyper local projects that advance NASA’s mission and vision. The event provides a chance to pursue projects of value to the NASA mission that might not normally be done and also to collaborate with others from around the agency [...]
| There is a new compact on the horizon: information produced by and on behalf of citizens is the lifeblood of the economy and the nation; government has a responsibility to treat that information as a national asset. Citizens are connected like never before and have the skill sets and passion to solve problems affecting them [...]
