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erick.gonzalez

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About StraML:

Strategy Markup Language (StratML) is an XML vocabulary and schema for strategic plans. Its purposes include:

* Facilitate the sharing, referencing, indexing, discovery, linking, reuse, and analyses of the elements of strategic plans, including goal and objective statements as well as the names and descriptions of stakeholder groups and any other content commonly included in strategic plans.
* Enable the concept of "strategic alignment" to be realized in literal linkages among goal and objective statements and all other records created by organizations in the routine course of their business processes.
* Facilitate the discovery of potential performance partners who share common goals and objectives and/or either produce inputs needed or require outputs produced by the organization compiling the strategic plan.
* Facilitate stakeholder feedback on strategic goals and objectives.
* Facilitate updating and maintenance of discrete elements of strategic plans without requiring review and approval of the entire plan through bureaucratic channels, thereby helping to make the strategic planning process more agile and responsive to stakeholder feedback and changing circumstances, thus helping to overcome the tendency of strategic plans to become outdated "shelfware".
* Reduce the needless time, effort, inconsistencies, and delays associated with maintaining data redundantly in myriad "stovepipe" systems rather than referencing the authoritative sources.
* Enable agencies to comply with the provisions of subsections 202(b)(4) & (5) and 207(d) of the eGov Act.

by Erick Gonzalez
Navy Veteran and Government 2.0 Consultant
erick.gonzalez@oracle.com

Also see my idea to consolidate Federal, State and Local data.
http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/2613-4049
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erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
Restoring voting rights for convicted felons will not add transparency to the system, this is irrelevant.
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
Not going to happen, not at least with our current internet technology. This will however, be possible when a better framework and internet security has been implemented in the not so distant future. For now let's continue to vote the old fashion way.
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
This idea simply remind us why our government is in the shape it is today, a government filled with officials not bright enough to comprehend complex ideas without the need of pop-up pictures and coloring areas... I mean visual recordings.

I do not completely disregard the idea, I think it's a very good one for what it's worth, which I hope it's close to free. A digital graphic or 3D model artist could, however create a more visually and interactive experience and present complex ideas that can be understood more fluently by a broader audience.
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
I came up with a more tech savvy solution to this problem, please see idea on Federal, State and Local data consolidation.

http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/2613-4049
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer is a great example of this idea, yet the complexity behind government data and accessibility creates a different environment where more eyes on the source code do not outweigh the benefits of using open source software.


I mean not to insult your intelligence crizgo, but I think that you should familiarize yourself more with open source software and the security vulnerabilities open source exposes the federal government to.

It is true that the open source content management system Drupal has been used by the Obama administration in one of their most recent projects, but you cannot expect to have the rest of the government follow this blunt move. As Vivec Kundra pointed out on his 80/20 vision for IT implementations, you can expect 80% of the government IT implementations to be open source, cloud implementations, even crowdsourcing ideas as is the very site that we are collaborating in at this very moment. While dedicating the other 20% to secured infrastructure that resides withing well layered and secured servers running on enterprise software products that hosts the more valuable and sensitive data.

Erick Gonzalez
Government 2.0 Consultant
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
Lol at your last statement.

If it seems simple and honest, the government will have a hard time doing it.
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
Not gonna happen, Obama himself has been a recipient of lobbyist money in the past.

We are not there yet buddy.
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
I mean not to insult your intelligence 21stCenturyRTK but I think that you should familiarize yourself more with open source software and the security vulnerabilities open source exposes the federal government to.

It is true that the open source content management system Drupal has been used by the Obama administration in one of their most recent projects, but you cannot expect to have the rest of the government follow this blunt move. As Vivec Kundra pointed out on his 80/20 vision for IT implementations, you can expect 80% of the government IT implementations to be open source, cloud implementations, even crowdsourcing ideas as is the very site that we are collaborating in at this very moment. While dedicating the other 20% to secured infrastructure that resides withing well layered and secured servers running on enterprise software products that hosts the more valuable and sensitive data.
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
Taking into consideration the points you have suggested, I agree with you. A design like http://Mixx.com (similar but more advanced than Digg) can used to create a web 2.0 interface site that displays such public site usage statistic readily available.
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
I disagree, just because a website gets a lot of traffic and another doesn't is not a qualifying factor when deciding which sites to cut off funding for. Popular sites are not always the most useful and and useful sites are always the ones that are hard to find.
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
Let's create yet another government controlled old media outlet... well, we already have Fox news.
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
I failed to mention microformats as a strong contender for a standard format. I think microformats, which is now supported by Google search engine, can be the perfect format for subset of data.

http://microformats.org/
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
Consolidating government agencies would be yet, another good idea.
erick.gonzalez 8 months ago
Let me be clear, the distribution of data to the users by data.gov should and MUST include alternative and open standard formats such as: XML, CSV, Atom, KML and ESRI. as well as a single source of consolidated point of access data. What we have now is several government agencies distributing data in several different formats, which is a nightmare from a developer's point of view. Having a consolidated format will:

* Provide one single source or point of data access.
* Maximize time spent on the application design and implementation, not on data integration.
* Work on any platform, no matter of operating system.
* Be the standard.

Let's look at and learn from Google, Facebook and OpenID. What is openID? http://openid.net/ It is a single sign-on option that eliminates the need of multiple user names and passwords across different participating websites. In essence what you get as an end user is a single user name and password to login to ANY application and website on the internet, if these choose to use it. Now let's apply that same concept to government data. Having a single data format and a data consolidation into one website (data.gov) that eliminates the need to have several different "logins" or "data formats" for every application that is created, instead what you have is a single sign on (data access point) that can be used across any platform, the standard, and able to execute on any environment.

On the same note, data should not be hosted by any particular vendor, instead distributed and shared across different cloud vendors who would provide this service to the government for free, in a contributor and capacity. You see, the ultimate purpose is to have a government that saves money by providing data and receiving feedback in the most efficient way possible using the latest in technology and social media advances.

Crowdsourcing should not only be a principle of the new Government, but the driving force behind the innovation. What I mean with this is that we should be able to put to use our collective knowledge and our ability to brainstorm ideas, throw them to the wall and to see what sticks in a micro-environment, drop what doesn't work, to scale those ideas that do work. This type of efficiency and transparency will save the government billions of dollars in IT implementations and result in big gains for the average citizen who will then, be able to use data and information technology in new, meaningful ways, empowered with the data needed to make informed decisions when it comes to our elected officials and our government activities.

This is the essence of the Government 2.0.