Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate
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Wednesday, August 17th
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Wednesday, August 17, 8:00am
Nick Skytland,
NASA Headquarters
Jenn Gustetic,
Phase One Consulting Group
Since its inception, NASA has been devoted to educating the world about the wonders of our universe. The advent of the internet, coupled with President Obama’s Open Government Directive, has enabled the agency to reach for new frontiers in involving the public in its missions, collaborating with groups both internal and external, and opening its vast stores of data in the interest of transparency. Learn how NASA is leading the government in being a Gov 2.0 agency, and how you can participate in this exciting endeavor.
Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: Drive Mission Performance through Open Government Tactics
For the past several decades, several initiatives have strived to drive towards a more innovative and open government, including the reinventing government initiative, the e-government initiative and now the Open Government Initiative. We now have an unprecedented amount of web based tools that make that maturation more realistic and easier than ever before. This session will focus on the power of Open Government tactics to drive innovation within the mission of NASA, including prizes and competitions, online public dialogues and consultations, public private partnerships, data release and visualization, employee and stakeholder ideation initiatives, and many more. Learning from the lessons of other Federal Agencies as they have piloted various programs to create a culture of innovation within their walls and with their stakeholders, this session will highlight tactics that NASA programs may want to consider leveraging to drive mission performance. NASA is uniquely positioned in the Federal Government to inspire, educate and innovate—Open Government tactics can help NASA programs to achieve those goals more effectively and quickly.
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Whitney Zatzkin posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · ViewTremendous time for innovation.
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Whitney Zatzkin posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · ViewWould be terrible of me not to mention the ESA link to Europe’s Digital Agenda strategies (some) featured here: http://www.espi.or.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=682:26-may-2011-espi-report-32-on-satcom-policy-in-europe-online&catid=39:news-archive&Itemid=37
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Keith Cowing posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · ViewWe constantly get people claiming that NASA has secret moon bases from the 60s. So, at LOIRP We are going to have a contest at some point where people would suggest where they’d put their secret moon base – and why – take the weird aspect of these urban myths and toss it on its head as a learning tool. Being ”open” includes having a sense of humor.
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Keith Cowing posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · ViewThe power of crowd sourcing: ”Donors help re-open mothballed telescopes searching for ET” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14544953
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Karen Lopez posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · updated 9 months ago · ViewSo many great resources being mentioned. Would love a cheat sheet of all the links/mentions.
We will be posting the full presentation which has all the links being mentioned. It may take day or two. All the presentations have to be reviewed for 508 compliance. (In a nutshell, that’s handicapped accessibility.) But, the presentation with all the links will be posted soon. Thanks!
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Keith Cowing posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · ViewWe are doing something very similar at the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) at an abandoned McDonalds outside the gate at NASA ARC – we have teenage students and 80 year olds working together to bring these images back to life in a way that was not possible in the 60s using left over computers and lots of hacking and elbow grease.
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Heather Kimley posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · ViewCheck out http://www.nasa.gov/tweetup (A community centered around the final launches.) This group took off with a great degree of success.
Check out http://www.zooniverse.org (A group great at aggregating data from public input. As a result, new galaxies have been discovered.)
http://www.moonzoo.org (focused on counting the number and size of craters.)
http://www.fragileoasis.org (A group started by astronauts focused on earth protective initiatives. Ideas are submitted by individuals, reviewed, voted on by astronauts, and ultimately, the chosen ones are supported by the astronauts and the next generation of astronauts.)
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Keith Cowing posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · ViewAn observation/suggestion: hackathons and maker events need to involve the world OUTSIDE of NASA – and make access as easy as walking through a door. Otherwise this is just choir practice.
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Heather Kimley posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · View”Weehack” coming soon…. targeting middleschool students to work with engineers. For example: take apart a toaster and learn how and why it was created this way. This ties in with STEM initiatives.
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Heather Kimley posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · ViewWhitney Zatzkin: I love what the Health 2.0 crowd has done for #healthapps challenges. Would love to see the #NASAApps challenge!
@Whitney Check out http://www.nasa.gov/ntl
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Heather Kimley posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · ViewCallers are inquiring about business applications of the open goverment movement.
Data.nasa.gov will soon be opened. The data available may prove to be very useful to the business sector (e.g., commercial apps have been developed). -
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Heather Kimley posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · ViewFuture vision: To demonstrate to other countries the success of Open Government in hopes that these countried will follow.
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Heather Kimley posted an update in the session
Open Government: Inspire, Educate, and Innovate: 9 months ago · ViewURL for NASA’s Open Government Plan is http://www.nasa.gov/open/plan
Short summary of goals are: increase transparency, enable citizen participation, improving internal NASA collaboration, including partnerships that can create economic opportunity, and institutionalize these practices.
Chris recommends going to http://open.nasa.gov to view highlighted activities as they are occuring.
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