[egov-services] eGov Services subcommittee (Services SC) conferencecall Friday March 7th information/topics

["Lewis, Diane" <Diane.Lewis@usdoj.gov>]

Greetings!
here is the teleconference discussion topics, the last draft version of the proposed subcommittee charter and dial in information..
please join us in a lively discussion..tomorrow March 7th at 10am EST.  looking forward to a productive discussion thanks Terry for making it possible.... thanks to all for participating  diane


<Topics:>
1. Roll Call (subcommittee membership)
2. Discuss in detail current draft Services SC charter (see below)
3. Reach a consensus on Services SC goals  (outcome of discussion)
4. Wrap-up/Summary action items for March 12th afternoon Services SC Meeting agenda


<Current draft charter text as of Feb 10th:>

Purpose choice one: 
The purpose of the eGov Services subcommittee is to identify and map existing government services functions and data with technical standards from an integrated service delivery perspective.  The resulting mappings will show the information or services integrated according to function or topic, in addition to agency jurisdiction.

Purpose choice two:
The purpose of the eGov Services subcommittee is to identify domains of governmental activity and their associated vocabulary and transform that vocabulary into a data specification that will allow governmental organizations to share information within a single, national, jurisdiction and where the political will exists, allow national authorities to share that same information among nations and states.

Goals:  (what do we want to accomplish?)
>Identify common needs regarding standardization of information objectives and data elements within the public domain

>Formulate a common methodology to survey public service forms, documents and processes (data needs) and identify corresponding public domain standards

>Formulate a common methodology for defining common standards for public domain data
>Achieve a minimum level of consensus on priorities in order to coordinate work done in many different organizations in order to share knowledge as well as achievements (data definitions).

Goals:  choice two:

>identify common needs regarding standardization of information objects and data elements

>formulate a common methodology regarding analysis of form, documents and processes (data needs)

--formulate a common methodology for defining priorities

> Achieve a minimum level of consensus on priorities in order to coordinate work done in many different organizations in order to share knowledge as well as achievements (data definitions)


List of Deliverables:  (purpose and content of each identified deliverable)

>List of public domain registries  Purpose: facilitate adoption of XML-based technologies and standards by Governments  (yellow/white pages concept)

>Proposed Specification on public domain semantic consistency where the Government to Citizen services in the vertical public domain is consistent with the horizontal public domain.   For example: public health - FDA  <illness prevention>  public health -National Security <anthrax vaccination>

> Matrix that maps identified Citizen types or experiences to Government Service Channels to Government Functions/Agencies/Implementations         for example:  Citizen-Voter, Citizen-immigrant, Citizen-Veteran, Citizen-TaxPayer, Citizen-Postal Service

<Dial-in information:>
Terry has scheduled a conference call for March 7th at 10:00am EST. The call in
information is:

6442748 
DIAL IN#    800-869-6600 
HOST            Terry Bjornsen 

INTERNATIONAL NUMBER: 
+1 952-448-7222 
HOST    Terry Bjornsen