1.1: Employee Engagement

Adhere to the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration in developing our Open Government Plan by using the DOT’s intranet as a collaboration platform.

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The DOT adhered to the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration in developing our Open Government Plan by using the DOT’s intranet as a collaboration platform. Taking advantage of SharePoint’s ability for immediate site development, the OCIO set up workgroup sites for each of the major Open Government activities, and later set up subgroup sites for teams to openly collaborate. A number of methods were deployed to promote collaboration, transparency, and participation: * The Open Government sites were set up to allow transparency into the groups’ mission, goals, discussions, and work, but restricted day-to-day collaboration and document editing only to group members. * Non-members could also participate via submission of questions or comments during the groups’ ongoing activities, utilizing the prominently displayed group membership rosters. Document libraries were created to store and display the groups’ final work products for all DOT employees to see.

Stakeholder(s):

• Employees

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