OpenGovWest - 27-28 Mar 2010 - Seattle

[Philip Ashlock]

http://opengovwest.com/


Day 1: Work Summit – Friday, March 26th 2010

The first day of Open Gov West is a work summit for government
representatives and leaders of open government initiatives.
Practitioners will hear from open government innovators and discuss
implementation opportunities for open government technology,
collaboration, and policy adoption.

We’ll discuss:

    * Common challenges
    * Transparency goals
    * Innovative solutions & strategies
    * Opportunities to share resources or collaborate
    * Standards & best practices

Our goals include:

    * Building relationships among regional governments and transparency leaders
    * Exploring opportunities to collaborate
    * Sharing Gov 2.0 challenges and developing strategies for overcoming them
    * Brainstorming ways to reduce technology costs through
standardizing technology and sharing
    * Setting regional transparency and technology goals

SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

Keynote: Andrew Hoppin, New York State Senate’s CIO.  Andrew has
transformed the New York State Senate’s transparency and citizen
access in barely a year’s time.  He’ll share his story of how he built
a technology and culture-changing team at the New York State Senate
and how you can do the same.

Confirmed Speakers:

David Eaves, Noted Open Gov Strategist, Eaves.com

David Hume, Executive Director, Citizen Engagement; Future of Work
Initiatives, WorkforcePlanning and Leadership Secretariat, Office of
the Premier in the Province of British Columbia

Sabra Schneider, Webmaster, King County, WA

Bill Schrier, CIO of Seattle



Stay tuned for many more…



Day 2: Unconference – Saturday, March 27th 2010

The second day brings together citizens, technologists, designers,
academics, social entrepreneurs, policy wonks, political players,
change-makers, and government employees to answer these questions:

    * How can we help government become more open and responsive?
    * How do we as citizens organize to get better outcomes ourselves?
    * What new, innovative tools can we use within open government or
to inspire open government?

Open Gov West’s unconference-style format enables participants to be presenters.

With plenty of conference rooms and an open schedule, participants
post session pitches by 9 AM on the day of the unconference.
Attendees vote on sessions by placing one or more of their stickers on
their favorite sessions (everyone gets a set number of stickers).
Then the top sessions are placed into the conference grid and everyone
goes to their first session.

Open Gov West will also have a central track of pre-arranged
discussions and talks. The pre-set track will be streamed live over
the web.  If you’d like to submit a pitch for the pre-set track,
please email sessions [at] opengovwest [dot] com to submit a session
idea.

The format of the Open Gov West Unconference is heavily (and
appreciatively) borrowed from VanChange Camp and Mind Camp.



STAY TUNED FOR PRE-ARRANGED SESSION CONTENT!

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Philip Ashlock

The Open Planning Project - http://www.openplans.org

ph...@openplans.org | @philipashlock | (360) 389-2741

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Philip Ashlock

The Open Planning Project - http://www.openplans.org

ph...@openplans.org | @philipashlock | (360) 389-2741