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

3. 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

4. Collaboration Partnering
Between Different Gov Agencies
Outside Agencies
Public Involvement

5. Open Government
Video

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

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. UN e-Government Readiness Index

11. What Do You Think Makes a Successful Collaborative Government?

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. What is Drupal?

16. 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.

17. 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...

18. 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

19. 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.

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

21. 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.

22. Drupal Administration (cont'd)
Managing Themes

23. Drupal Administration (cont'd)
Managing Modules (

24. Examples of Drupal Websites: http://www.whitehouse‏.gov/
Drupal Gardens:

25. Questions?