January 12, 2011 SIG Meeting

1. Welcome by SIG Chair Adelaide O'Brien and SIG Vice Chair Mark Samblanet
• New SIG Leadership
• Need Communications Chair and Program Chair
• Martha has gone over to the Govenment and must reliquish her role as Program Chair
• Communications Chair - unified message within SIG - optionally work with other SIGs to share information
• Program Chair - organize speakers and work with ACT-IAC Program Committee (attend monthly meeting)
• Normal meeting time is 3rd Thursday from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM (normally at ACT-IAC conference room)
• Committees should consider how projects can be completed within a six month window
• Goal of meetings is to have some content discussion, not just business status
2. Update and Call for Volunteers by Committee Chairs (status and plans for 2011)
• Federal Financial Management
• Two committees
• Grants Management
• Have finished review of inputs from 9 companies who responded to data call about systems that could help improve Government grant management
• Inptus being reviewed
• Findings will be presented in end-of-month meeting (last Thursday of month)
• Government is asking for results
• May have round table, forum -- up for discussion
• Improper Payments
• Asked by OMB to join a collaborative forum - a first for IAC
• Ultimately dollars will flow to agencies to implement
• Meeting held yesterday
• Want to understand how rules engines work in the real world
• How will technology help Federal and State agencies?
• Asking for specifics
• Lots of activity
• Lessons learned
• Role model behavior - need to be vendor neutral and comply with IAC ethics
• Sent out to persons involved to make sure it was in line with IAC rules
• Seven companies responded to data call, but did not participate in committee - committee included all in review, even if they did not participate actively - need to be an IAC member to participate
• If you need to present to Government, make sure you take appropriate steps to make it vendor neurtrl
• Non-members are intrested, so might be a recruiting opportunity
• Health IT
• Looking for a co-chair to work with Raju
• Adelaide has brought in Ed Meagher - Ed is eager to participate and want committee to look at meaningful use
• Need to build Government sponsor/participants - in process of reaching out
• Lesson learned:  Need good champion on Government side
• Information Sharing
• In process of kicking off new year
• 3 projects last year - may look at extending some
• Kickoff on January 25 (Tuesday) at 3:30 - Wine and Cheese social
• Brainstorming new ideas - looking for participants to speak up
• Priority is engaging a Government sponsor
• Have a number of Government participating, but want a sponsor
• Senior level Government Executive who are drivers in information sharing
• Want to increase collaboration and partnership between Government and Industry participants
• Applied Innovation
• Need new AI Committee Co-Chair for future projects
• Suggestion for next project is collaborative platforms
• Challenge maintaining interest throughout the year
• Last year success at MOC
• 2nd project in Challenges/Prizes
• Karen Trebon has been actively supporting
• Setting up interviews
• Lessons learned
• Getting and maintaining sponsors
• Need to make use of tools to improve operations
• Hard to maintain members when project exceeds 3 months
• Required to have 2 IAC members for interviews - this is not always easy
• Best Practices for record retention of social media
• Went out for more volunteer mid-way through project to help with interviews
• Draft report prepared
• Need to make sure folks working on social media talk to records peopol
• Working on pannel for March 17 (normal SIG meeting date) - will try to hold downtown
• Suggestion to involve Library of Congress who has developed some tools
• Suggestion for changes to committees or new committees
• White papers no longer a necessary delvierable, but do need an executive summary and/or some other type of deliverabel (presentations, panel, etc.)
3. ACT Board Meeting - January 26
• ACT Board has invited SIG and Committee leaders to participate
• Create ACT strategic agenda
4. iACTion Inputs - deadline is Friday
• Consider adding link to web site
5. Community Fair (March 9) - Crystal Gateway Marriott - 3:30 PM to evening
• Need volunteer to lead
• Who will be attending from our SIG?
• Materials for presentation
• Be prepared to sign up new members
• What is the message we want to communicate?
• February SIG meeting will be workshop to prepare
6. Government Advisor Panel (GAP)
• What do we want from our GAP?
• Suggestions for new members
• Adelaide will reach out to existing members with our plans for the year and to determine their interest in continuing to participate
• Will try to get staff member assigned to work with committees on more frequent basis
• John Shaw vets, but ACT Board has final approval
• Some SIGs have GAP liasons to keep GAP members involved
• Informal communications can occur once SIG agrees
• Formal invitations will probably not go out until March
7. C&T SIG Support for 25 Point Implementation Plan
• Are there any points that merit our SIG's involvement?
• 24.  Launch "myth busters" education campaign
• 25.  Launch interactive platform for pre-RFP agency-industry collaboration
• Suggestions on how to get involved - need government sponsor for any activity
8. How do we make SIG more exciting?
• Redesigned web site for collaboration
• Meetings focused on content, not status updates which can be reported through other means
• Programs and speakers - need suggestions and help to get lined up
• How can we better communicate within SIG?
• Use of web meetings vs. simple conference calls
9. New items
• Joel Horwitz wants us to consider talking with one of his clients who has problem supporting Indian populations on reservations - they need a collaborative effort - can we set up a forum to explore their issues? - post concept and determine whether any interest
• Committee to volunteer to keep drumbeat going from September workshop with 10 Gov execs - next meeting would probably be a web meeting - to deal with innovation and thought leadership in Government - will involve other SIGs
10. Next Meeting:  Thursday, February 17 at ACT-IAC Conference room - 3:30PM - 5:00 PM
• Worjshop to prepare for Community Fair

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