1. Driving Innovation Through Knowledge Sharing
Jeanne Holm
Evangelist, Data.gov
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2. The KM Journey
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4. NASA SpaceBook
Social media meets intranet portals
Establish governance for social networks and sharing
Allow open community development of apps, widgets, and content
Open source
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5. Communities for Collaboration
Find information
Integration to document management
Saved searches and subscriptions
Discussions and Q&A
Key lessons are integrated into the community
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6. Pulls expert attributes from existing systems
Sort and browse location, project, and expertise
Social network map shows possible experts in relation to searcher
Finding NASA Experts via Social Networks
POPS (People, Organizations, Projects, and Skills)
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7. Baby Boomers to Gen X to Gen M
Socialization now occurs primarily online for the age group 6 through 30
Fastest growing user bases to Facebook?
276% growth in 35-54 year olds
194% growth in 55+ year olds
More people met their spouse online than through work or friendscombined (the numbers double for 45-54 year olds)
Reality is nothing but an illusion...
albeit a persistent one
Albert Einstein
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9. Are you still living on a
flat Earth?
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20. The Knowledge and Data Revolution Has Arrived
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Data is the flint for
for the next 25 years.
Ray OzzieChief Software ArchitectMicrosoft
Volume of digital information increases tenfold every 5 years
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21. Maximum Flow of Information and Knowledge
YouTube is now second largest search engine in the world
1.5 million pieces of content shared daily on Facebook
On-line newspaper readers are up 30%
250 million visitors each month to YouTube and Facebook
Mobile devices will be worlds primary connection tool to the Internet in 2020
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As big an issue outside your organization as within it

22. Presidents Innovation Agenda
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• Open government

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Partnerships
Entrepreneurship
Prizes, challenges, and grants
Idea generation
Innovative science and technology
Promoting competitive markets
A Strategy for American Innovationpublished September 2009
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23. Open Government Initiative

• Transparency promotes accountability
• 24. Participation allows people to contribute ideas
• 25. Collaboration encourages cooperation within government and with industry

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26. Data.gov
Break down stovepipes
Provide instant access to raw data in easy to use formats
Encourage development of innovative applications
Drive innovation and knowledge use across the globe
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27. Data.gov for the Economy

• NOAAs data helped build weather-related business
• 28. Weather forecasting
• 29. The Weather Channel
• 30. Weather.com
• 31. When the Department of Defense released satellite dataprivate industry created affordable GPS devices!
• 32. Opportunities for private sector are limitless

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33. Supporting Global Events
Japanese tsunami, earthquake, and radiation monitoring
Restore the Gulf: Deepwater Horizon Response
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34. Achieving Global Leadership in Open Government Data
Funding will drive ability to reach these goals
Communities: health, law, ethics
Citizens
Developers
K-12 Education

• Search
• 35. Dataset access
• 36. Communities
• 37. Geodata visualization
• 38. Dataset hosting in the cloud
• 39. Semantic technologies

Academia
State, local, tribal
Data.Gov Services
International
Cloud
Agencies
Internal Stakeholders
Industry
Green = government Blue = external stakeholders
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41. Open Communities for Discussing Trends and Topics
Join in the community discussions about open data and semantic technologies at http://www.data.gov/opendata
Twitter at @usdatagov
If you are interested in a specific type of data let us know!
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42. Community SitesStay Tuned
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43. Learn at Data.gov
Resources for students and teachers
Examples of how data is being used to develop apps
Lesson plans and videos
Showcase your science fair project that uses government data!
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44. Tapping the Ingenuity of the Public
Fly On Time
Dept. of Transportation data, FlyOnTime.us lets people find the most on-time flights and shortest security-line wait times.
Integrated to Twitter for security line waiting time
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Uses Health and Human Services community health data and shows obesity rates by county
Supports the First Ladys fights against childhood obesity
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/contributorstoobesity/Eatyourvegtables?:embed=yes&:toolbar=yes
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46. Employment Market Explorer
Using Bureau of Labor local area unemployment data
This app lets people explore which cities and neighborhoods have the best growth in new jobs
http://pujaplicaciones.javeriana.edu.co/Employment/
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47. Data Masher
Uses data from many agencies
Allows anyone to create a mashup between two datasets to see potential correlations
http://www.datamasher.org/
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48. Think Big, Start Small, Innovate
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49. Easy to Find Data
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50. The Power of Visualizations
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51. Semantic Technologies
Provides developers the tools and raw data formats to develop new capabilities
Close partnership with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Connected to other open data efforts across the world
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52. Data-Driven Communities
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53. Learn at Data.gov
Resources for students and teachers
Lesson plans and videos
Showcase student projects using government data
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54. Supporting Global Events
Japanese tsunami, earthquake, and radiation monitoring
Restore the Gulf: Deepwater Horizon Response
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55. The Path Ahead
Bring data up and out of government to the public
Make data accessible and linked
Provide simple ways to visualize the data
Create communities to understand and apply data
Connect and collaborate with small businesses, industry, and academia to drive innovation
Share with others to understand global issues
Be the change you want to see in the world
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56. A Global Movement Has Begun to Provide Transparency and Democratization of Data
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57. Lets work together to set the data free!www.Data.Gov@usdatagovjholm@jpl.nasa.gov@JeanneHolm
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