Driving Collaboration and Innovation through Open Source

Kathy ConradPrincipal Deputy Associate AdministratorOffice of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies, GSA

Then: Data and Software were Siloed Across Government

Now: A New Paradigm of Openness and Collaboration

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Open Collaborative Work Spaces

A bold policy framework

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Strategy for a 21st Century Digital Government

Open and Machine Readable is the New Default for Government Information

Open Sourcing the Development of Policy, Code, and Content

http://project-open-data.github.io

Open data and sharing as the new default

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Data.gov transformation: now

Data.gov transformation: next

Open Source: A new foundation for innovation and collaboration

The Presidential Innovation Fellows leverage open source

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D E N T I A L

IN N O VA T I O N F E L L O WS

43 Fellows

Pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with government innovators to develop solutions that can save lives, save taxpayer money, and fuel job creation.

Partnerships with 18 agencies

23 projects using and releasing open source code

PIF Project Example

Rapid Development

- 2 weeks of work- 100 million records- 90% reused from existing open source code

Why Open Source

- Continual improvement by community

- Much easier for others to use and access the system before it's finalized

- Allows others to recreate the system in their own environment and reuse the codebase for other large data sets

FDA Adverse Event Reporting System as a RESTful API

https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/fda-aers

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Agencies can jump start development by leveraging pre-existing code.

Provides test scripts used by agencies across the federal government

Mobile Code Catalog

Challenges for the future

The challenges aheadPhoto by B.J. Bumgarner on Flickr

Scale

Speed

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Discovery

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Join the community of open source innovation in government

gsa.github.io/federal-open-source-reposwww.usa.gov/developer