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Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People
Strategic_Plan
Start: 2012-05-23, Publication: 2012-05-23 Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/egov/digital-government/digital-government-strategy.pdf
The Digital Government Strategy sets out to accomplish three things: 1. Enable the American people and an increasingly mobile
workforce to access high-quality digital government information and services anywhere, anytime, on any device. Operationalizing
an information-centric model, we can architect our systems for interoperability and openness, modernize our content publication
model, and deliver better, device-agnostic digital services at a lower cost. 2. Ensure that as the government adjusts to this
new digital world, we seize the opportunity to procure and manage devices, applications, and data in smart, secure and affordable
ways. Learning from the previous transition of moving information and services online, we now have an opportunity to break
free from the inefficient, costly, and fragmented practices of the past, build a sound governance structure for digital services,
and do mobile “right” from the beginning. 3. Unlock the power of government data to spur innovation across our Nation and
improve the quality of services for the American people. We must enable the public, entrepreneurs, and our own government
programs to better leverage the rich wealth of federal data to pour into applications and services by ensuring that data is
open and machine-readable by default.
The Digital Government Strategy complements several initiatives aimed at building a 21st century government that works better
for the American people. These include Executive Order 13571 (Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service),
Executive Order 13576 (Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and Accountable Government), the President’s Memorandum on Transparency
and Open Government, OMB Memorandum M-10-06 (Open Government Directive), the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
(NSTIC), and the 25-Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management (IT Reform). Through IT
Reform, the Federal Government has made progress in foundational execution areas such as adopting “light technologies” (e.g.
cloud computing), shared services (e.g. commodity IT), modular approaches for IT development and acquisition, and improved
IT program management. The strategy leverages this progress while focusing on the next key priority area that requires government-wide
action: innovating with less to deliver better digital services. It specifically draws upon the overall approach to increase
return on IT investments, reduce waste and duplication, and improve the effectiveness of IT solutions defined in the Federal
Shared Services Strategy. The Digital Government Strategy incorporates a broad range of input from government practitioners,
the public, and private-sector experts. Two cross-governmental working groups—the Mobility Strategy and Web Reform Task Forces—provided
guidance and recommendations for building a digital government. These groups worked with the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) and General Services Administration (GSA) to conduct current state research (e.g. the December 2011 State of the Federal
Web Report) and explore solutions for the future of government digital services. Feedback was also incorporated from citizens
and federal workers across the nation using online public dialogues, including the September 2011 National Dialogue on Improving
Federal Websites and the January 2012 National Dialogue on the Federal Mobility Strategy which produced a combined total of
570 ideas and nearly 2,000 comments.
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