COLLABORATION IN GOVERNMENT  John Connolly (OL) Amber Klosterman (OL) Bobby Puliant (OL) Brandon Roth Todd Wargo Video Video 2

Recent History of Collaboration in Government 1980s and 1990s Collaboration much more inward focused Government organizations looked to streamline from within instead of outward 2000s More collaboration between organizations Now laws trickle down the government ladder National—State—Local Larger scale collaboration More international governments working together

Dimensions of Collaboration Across Governmental Jurisdiction Across Jurisdictions of Government Between Government and the Private Sector Between Government and the Voluntary/Human Services Sector Collaboration between International Governments Between the People

Collaboration Partnering Between Different Gov Agencies Outside Agencies Public Involvement

Open Government Video

Recent Developments in Open Government Open Source Governance Freeware Movement Whistle Blowers Security

E-Government and E-Governance Benefits Use of computers irrespective of time and location Easy Access Reduces physical travel Effective account and record tracking Reduce process timings Less administration Environmentally friendly. Risks Hyper-Surveillance Costs Security Concerns?  Challenges

Delivery models and activities Government to Citizen/Consumer   Government to Business Government to Government Government to Employees

UN e-Government Readiness Index One section of the UN’s e-Government Survey Conducted bi-annually by the UN Public Administration Network It is a comparative ranking of countries according to two primary indicators The country’s state of e-government readiness The extent of the country’s e-participation

UN e-Government Readiness Index

What Do You Think Makes a Successful Collaborative Government?

What Makes a Successful Collaborative Government? Individual mental model construction Knowledge interoperability Team knowledge development   Individual visualization and representation of meaning Team shared understanding    Shared hidden knowledge Compare problem solution against goals Analyze and revise solution options

Examples US Department of Education Public Collaboration Drupal   Drupal Based on President Obama's idea of breaking down barriers to: Transparency Participation Federal government and its citizens

Conclusion Utilized for hundreds of years, but until recently has not been altered Technology advances have accelerated advancement Even though it's a simple idea, implementation is much more difficult

What is Drupal?

History/Background of Drupal Originally written by Dries Buytaert as a message board, Drupal became an open source project in 2001. A large community now helps develop Drupal and Drupal's popularity is growing rapidly. From May 2007 to April 2008, Drupal was downloaded from the Drupal.org website more than 1.4 million times, an increase of approximately 125% from the previous year As of July 2010 it was estimated to be about 7.2 million websites have been built using Drupal.

What is Drupal? Drupal is an open source platform and content management system for building dynamic websites offering a broad range of features and services inlcuding...

Drupal Features Content Management System Content Publishing / Threaded Commenting Blogging Platform Forums Version Control (Diff module shows revision in friendly format)‏ Polls News aggregation / RSS Feeds Blocks / Navigation Modules / Themes

Drupal Features (cont'd) Centralized management Templates and modules Styles Scripting Content creation, editing, and maintenance can be done without technical Web knowledge. Changes in styles, layout can be done across the site without content maintainers involvement.

Drupal Features (cont'd) Friendly URL and Permalinks‏ Page caching Integrated search functionality Page Hits / Statistics See Also: http://drupal.org/features

Drupal Administration Managing Themes & Modules: The desired theme must be downloaded to the server Select desired theme in default theme dropdown box Sets the default theme seen by most users, although users can change the theme to what they want by editing their accounts Modules are used to add menus to Drupal Examples of available modules are: stories, blogs, polls, images, etc… Modules can easily integrate with Drupal core or other modules by using the Drupal API.

Drupal Administration (cont'd) Managing Themes

Drupal Administration (cont'd) Managing Modules (http://api.drupal.org/)

Examples of Drupal Websites: http://www.whitehouse‏.gov/ http://appel.nasa.gov/ Drupal Gardens: http://www.drupalgardens.com/features

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