Below is a great post on GovFresh that raises some important questions for the Global OpenGov Community:
What would you like to see next @The White House? At the Federal Agencies? State and Local Government? Worldwide?
My personal interest would be to see the ExpertNet project come to fruition @The White House and a few select government Agencies.
How about you? Priotities? Goals? Roadblocks?
I’m hearing ExpertNet was one of the projects that was directly impacted by recent staff turn-over (e.g. Beth Noveck leaving) but that the idea is not entirely dead yet. 😉
I know FedSpace was cut, and that data.gov and IT Spending will both be maintained at a basic level. Since ExpertNet is still a concept, it is probably easier to keep on the “To Do” lists…:-)
I wonder if anyone will formally take over as the project lead for ExpertNet and provide a proper follow-up to the December/January consultation.
Sure would be nice if there was a thorough lessons learned session before the White House ventures off into the next engagement project: White House To Seek Input (Again): A Few Basic Tips to Make It Work
Anyone who spearheads ExpertNet should be prepared to bring in external expertise to drive the project forward. It is very challenging to build momentum from within gov’t for a site like ExpertNet. Fortunately we have plenty of expertise right here on GovLoop.
Here are a couple of great GovLoop overviews on how to build audience and engagement:
http://www.slideshare.net/govloop/how-to-build-audience-and-engagement-in-government
http://www.slideshare.net/govloop/how-to-increase
Any idea on what happened to ExpertNet or if it is still alive?
Not sure about alive, but maybe not dead (yet). 😉
Here are a number of other OpenGov projects that have been proposed @NASA. There is a nice InfoGraph of projects across the government as well.
http://nasamakercamp.wikispaces.com/1.+Problem+Statements