Overview of the NASA Open Government Plan Version 2.0

On 9 April 2012, NASA released version 2.0 of its Open Government Plan. This presentation provides a summary of the NASA's new Plan which is available at http://open.nasa.gov/plan.

1. Plan Version 2.0 Open Government National Aeronautics and Space Administration www.nasa.gov
2. HELLO AN INTRODUCATION TO VERSION 2.0 OF THE NASA OPEN GOVERNMENT PLAN
3. To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind. NASA’s Vision Statement
4. The key principles of Open Government – participation, collaboration and transparency - have been embedded in NASA operations for more than 50 years. As NASA continues to implement the Open Government Directive, we have developed version 2.0 of our Open Government Plan to serve as a model – not a manual – for what a more open NASA might look like today. Our Plan collects the many new activities that exemplify the evolution of openness in NASA’s policy, technology and culture – and provides citizens the opportunity to respond and engage.
5. WHAT’S INSIDE? VIEW THE ENTIRE PLAN AT HTTP://OPEN.NASA.GOV/PLAN
6. 1.0 VISUAL SUMMARY 2.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3.0 INTRODUCTION 4.0 WELCOME LETTER 5.0 OUR PROGRESS ON V1.0 PLAN 6.0 FRAMEWORK FOR V2.0 PLAN 7.0 FLAGSHIP INITIATIVE 7.1 NASA Web Architecture 8.0 MAJOR ACTIVITIES 8.1 Open Source 8.2 Open Data 8.3 Technology Accelerators 9.0 HIGHLIGHTED ACTIVITIES 9.1 Prizes and Challenges 9.2 Citizen Science 9.3 Education Infrastructure Division 9.4 Freedom of Information Act 9.5 Zero Robotics 9.6 IT Labs 9.7 Center of Excellence 9.8 PhoneSat 9.9 Scientific & Technical Information 9.10 Collaborative Spaces 10. OPEN GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY
7. VISUAL SUMMARY A PLAN FOR OPENNESS
10. To view a high resolution version of this visual summary visit: http://open.nasa.gov/plan/graphical-summary
11. OUR PROGRESS TOWARDS ACCOMPLISHING THE GOALS OUTLINED IN VERSION 1.0 OF THE NASA OPEN GOVERNMENT PLAN
12. NASA’s original Open Government Plan defined 147 goals across 22 organizations to demonstrate increasing to ‘opening’ NASA’s policy, technology, and culture. To celebrate the one year anniversary, we released an infographic to communicate our first year of progress toward becoming more transparent, participatory, and collaborative. While the revised Plan sets new goals for openness across the Agency, this infographic conveys the progress NASA made toward the original goals in the initial Agency efforts in Open Government. To view a high resolution version of this infographic visit: http://open.nasa.gov/plan/progress
13. FRAMEWORK FOR VERSION 2.0 OF THE NASA OPEN GOVERNMENT PLAN
15. FLAGSHIP INITIATIVE
16. NASA WEB ARCHITECTURE Our new Flagship Initiative focuses our resources on creating an accessible, participatory and transparent web environment based on open and interoperable standards, representing what Open Government at its best can and should be. The Agency will aim to leverage open source software, as well as cloud computing technologies, and take an integrated approach to search, video, and social media. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/nasa-web-environment/
17. MAJOR INITIATIVES
18. OPEN DATA The open data movement at NASA is multifaceted, including the further release of data sets, publishing data sets to data.gov, and developing strategies to process big data. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/open-data/
19. OPEN SOURCE Open Source can bring numerous benefits to NASA software efforts, including increased software quality, reduced development costs, faster development cycles, and reduced barriers to public-private collabora- tion through new opportunities to commercialize NASA technology. NASA will continue to make new software available through the portal for NASA open source software, code.nasa.gov. It will also work to establish the processes, policies, and corporate culture to embrace open source development. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/open-source-software/
20. TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATORS The broad spectrum of NASA’s commitment to technology acceleration includes public-private partnerships, co-located spaces, citizen engagement and innovation mentoring – all in addition to making enormous amounts of open scientific data available for public use. The International Space Apps Challenge and Random Hacks of Kindness emphasize quick, collaborative development, while LAUNCH has developed a closely connected community of innovators that develops specific technology needs over a longer term. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/open-source-software/
21. HIGHLIGHTED ACTIVITIES
22. PRIZES AND CHALLENGES As an early adopter of challenge approaches, NASA continues to create diverse opportunities for citizen participation in meeting technology needs – at the same time promoting public involvement, awareness of the United States space program, and creates an environment where one person can make a substantial difference. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/prizes-and-challenges/
23. CITIZEN SCIENCE Citizen scientists have helped answer serious scientific questions, provided vital data to the astronomical community, and discovered thousands of objects including nebulas, supernovas, and gamma ray bursts. NASA will continue to engage citizen scientists at the intersection of science and technology to encourage better solutions, broader scientific applications of NASA data, and enhanced STEM educational opportunities. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/citizen-science
24. EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE DIVISION The Office of Education will create a new Infrastructure Division to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration throughout all of its education activities. The division will work to improve education policy and decision-making, provide better education services, increase accountability and ensure more effective administration.educational opportunities. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/education-infrastructure-division
25. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT NASA continues to improve the agency’s FOIA program to improve the efficiency with which it provides the public access to Agency documents. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/freedom-of-information-act/
26. ZERO ROBOTICS ZeroRobotics is a national competition to program robotic satellites inside the International Space Station (ISS). Finalists will participate in a championship competition where an astronaut will conduct the game in microgravity with a live broadcast from the ISS. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/zerorobotics
27. IT LABS IT Labs represents a significant leap from how NASA traditionally evaluates new technologies. IT Labs will provide a central collection point for innovative ideas, and is an innovation incubator, soliciting ideas from the greater NASA community and enabling them to be researched as part of a rapid, low-cost, low-risk process. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/it-labs
28. PHONE SAT The PhoneSat activity aims to remove cost as a barrier to entry for participating in space activities, with the goal of allowing anyone with space ambitions to launch their own satellite. The DIY satellite activity uses a commercial grade Android mobile phone and the open source Android platform, in conjunction with other commercial off the shelf (COTS) components. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/phonesat
29. CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION The Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation is envisioned as a Government-led virtual CoE to unify and advance the efforts of multiple U.S. Government Agencies seeking to use distributed innovation models to improve government processes. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/center-of-excellence
30. SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION NASA’s Scientific and Technical Information (STI) program manages one of the largest collection facts, analyses, and conclusions in the world resulting from scientific, technical, and related engineering research and development efforts, both basic and applied. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/scientific-and-technical-information
31. COLLABORATIVE SPACES The Collaborative Spaces activity supports the development of collaborative environments in physical spaces across the agency. This effort recognizes the need for communities at NASA to have physical interaction. This effort also acknowledges the need for physical spaces which enable virtual interaction. http://open.nasa.gov/plan/collaborative-spaces
32. DIRECTORY Of Participatory, Collaborative and Transparent Activities that Exemplify Open Government at NASA
33. Collaboration Participation Transparency http://open.nasa.gov/plan/directory
35. HTTP://OPEN.NASA.GOV/PLAN
36. Plan Version 2.0 Open Government National Aeronautics and Space Administration www.nasa.gov