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OpenGov Working Group |
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Chair: |
Cory Casanave
Model Driven Solutions |
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Additional
information can be found
here This work
group is being chartered at the request of the US
Government WG, but it is intended to be
international in scope. We will be liaising with
other groups such as W3C, OASIS, etc.
We plan a vote to formally charter it as a GovDTF
Working Group during our plenary in the San Antonio
meeting in September 2009.
If you are interested in participating send a
request to
mailto:request@omg.org and ask to be added to
the
OpenGovernment@omg.org mail list.
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Index
Charter:
The Open Government work group will be an enabler of
government transparency, collaboration and participation by
leveraging open standards and internet technologies.
The Open Government Working Group will foster a community of
support within OMG and collaborate with other organizations and
government stakeholders to articulate a vision of standards
based technologies enabling open government. This will be
achieved with a combination of white papers, seminars, workshops
and a synthesis of existing standards, as well as new standards
where required.
 Background:
The Obama administration
has articulated an open government initiative to transform
government to be more transparent, collaborative and
participatory. Key principles of this initiative are:
- That the massive
government data asset will be published for direct use by
citizens, industry and other government agencies.
- That internet based
social platforms can provide direct participation in
government
- That internet
technologies can enable the transformation of government to
embrace these open principles
While this initiative has
been fueled by the Obama administration in the United States, it
is already being leveraged in other countries and becoming a
worldwide phenomenon.
The transformation required
within the government and associated organizations can not be
underestimated. This initiative represents a bold vision of
future government that will change the culture and process of
government as well as the way citizens and industry work with
government. It will be the largest enterprise transformation
every attempted.
To realize this
transformation will require a new “government platform”, the
processes, resources and technology on which government
operates. This work group will explore how standards can
help enable the open government transformation.
The core mission of this
working group is to build on and integrate existing and emerging
standards and standard based technologies to provide a
government platform that:
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Supports an open “cloud of data” with
information from government, industry and citizens. This
data cloud will make available information the government
and industry have developed and information about what they
are doing.
- Include
architectures based on OMG standards in this data cloud so
that the processes, services, information, motivations,
metadata and policies of government agencies can be open and
accessible.
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Communicate the importance of architecture in achieving the
open government transformation
President Obama's
Initiative to transform government to be more transparent,
participatory and collaborative will impact the culture,
processes and perception of the government and the way citizens
interact with it. These initiatives will also rely on and have
an impact on the technologies that support government and, by
extension, the technologies of industry and individuals.
Potential Work Items:
- Sponsor and/or participate in an "Open Standards for
Open Government Workshop"
- Create a white paper showing how open standards can
facilitate open government
- Work with other standards organizations to help
create the open government platform
- Sponsor standards efforts to make architectures
created using OMG standards more accessible, visible and
open
- Connect OMG standards with Linked Open Data
Activity History:
- 20091210, Long Beach CA TC Meeting
– The Working Group met. See the
Long Beach
Minutes.
- 20090916, San Antonio TX TC Meeting
– The GovDTF chartered the working group, appointing
Cory Casanave of Model Driven Solutions as Chair. (See
San Antonio
Minutes.)
- 20090701 – In an ad-hoc GovDTF meeting in
Washington DC, it was agreed to form a working group to
support this initiative. There will be a formal vote to
charter this working group in the San Antonio TC Meeting in
September 2009.
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