Tools for the Citizen Scientist
NASA’s original Open Government Plan outlined 147 goals across 22 organizations to demonstrate how NASA is becoming an open government in its policy, technology, and culture. To celebrate two years of efforts toward the Initiative, NASA created an infographic to communicate it’s progress towards achieving the original goals in version 1.0 of the Agency’s Plan. As we release version 2.0 of the Plan, this infographic has been updated to reflect the final status of the original goals. Go to the end of this document for a plaintext version of the infographic.
Download the infographic: Tools for the Citizen Scientist
The NASA Open Government Plan provides a strong multi-dimensional framework of technology, policy, and culture, creating platforms for transparency, participation, and collaboration to better support the Agency’s mission to pioneer the future. NASA’s original Plan, released April 7, 2012, defined 147 goals across 22 organizations related to integrating Open Government into the Agency’s programs and projects. We set high goals, and we are proud of how far we have come in the first two years. All of these goals are fluid; you’ll see growth and movement as we work to determine the best path toward openness. This infographic converys the progress NASA made toward the original goals in Open Government – our latest efforts in working together with you to enable us all to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown.
We hope this will clearly communicate our progress and keep you informed of new and exciting things within NASA. If you have any questions or comments, we encourage you to visit our NASA Open Government website at http://www.nasa.gov/open and share your ideas.
Plain Text Version
Navigation
- Social Network Metrics
- Timeline
- FOIA Requests in FY 2011
- Data Sets Released Publicly
- FY 2011 Synopsis
- Project Statuses
- Footnotes
Social Network Metrics
- 209,967: Pageviews at open.nasa.gov
- 114: Blogposts at open.nasa.gov
- 152,380: Foursquare Followers
- 1: Internet Radio Station
- 29,556,976: NASA TV YouTube Views
- 88,651: Circled on Google+
- 95,552: +1′s on Google+’
- 1,529,665: Astronaut Ron Garan’s Followers on Google+
- 1,050,400+: Visits to science.nasa.gov
- 816,532: Facebook Followers
- 29+: Apps available online
- 2,047,512: Twitter Followers
- 60+: NASA Chats
- 82: @NASA Klout Score
- 130+: NASA Twitter Accounts
- 36: Astronauts on Twitter
- 1,258,586: @Astro_Mike Followers
- 19,362: @NASA Tweets
- 12.4: @NASA Tweets per Day
- 35+: NASA Tweetups/Socials
- 2500+: Participants in NASA Tweetups/Socials
Timeline
- April 2010: Release of the NASA Open Government Plan
- July 2010: NASA announces three new Centennial Challenges with a total prize purse of $5 million
- September 2010: Participatory Exploration Workshop to discuss the future of participatory exploration
- October 2010: Nebula Cloud Computing Platform operational for 250+ Users
- October 2010: Launch of new online NASA Tournament Lab platform for software challenges
- October 2010: NASA hosts an inter-agency collaborative event to discuss open data and the future of the open government community
- December 2010: Random Hacks of Kindness
- March 2011: NASA Technical Reports Server relaunched with full-text search
- March 2011: NASA hosts summit to discuss the future of open source development at the agency
- April 2011: Partnership strategy for NASA Education released publicly
- July 2011: NASA@WOrk Internal Collaboration platform launched with 8 challenges
- August 2011: NASA IT Summit held in San Francisco with integrated virtual participation
- August 2011: Release of http://data.nasa.gov
- September 2011: Green Flight Challenge
- November 2011: Office of the Chief Technologist received appropriations for forward work
- December 2011: Random Hacks of Kindness
- December 2011: Release of code.nasa.gov
FOIA Requests in FY 2011
- 35 outstanding from previous year
- 1027 received in FY 2011
- 1131 processed in FY 2011
Data Sets Released Publicly on data.gov
- 21 tools
- 512 Geodata catalogs
- 3 raw catalogs
- 17 Earth Science data directories
- 3 directories for educators
- 3 desktop data tools
- 2 HR directories
- 95 data sources added
- 11 Space Science data directories
Project Statuses
- 406 New Space Act Agreements
- 647 Software Usage Agreements
- 34 New Patent Licenses
- 547 Software Copyright Licenses
- 1500+ Partnerships with Outside Entities
- 28 Instances of Software Released Under Open Source License
FY 2011 Synopsis
All Projects: 85% Complete, 15% Partial
- Nebula: 88% Complete, 12% Not Complete
- Open Source: 75% Complete, 25% In Progress
- Participatory Exploration: 83% Complete, 17% In Progress
- Centennial Challenges: 100% Complete, 0% In Progress
- Citizen Engagement: 100% Complete, 0% In Progress
- Congressional Correspondence Processes: 100% Complete, 0% In Progress
- NASA TV: 100% Complete, 0% In Progress
- Space Act: 100% Complete, 0% In Progress
- Public Affairs & Web: 100% Complete, 0% In Progress
- Science Data Access: 100% Complete, 0% In Progress
- NASA Engineering Network & NASA Technical Reports Server: 94% Complete, 6% In Progress
- Data.gov: 94% Complete, 6% In Progress
- FOIA: 89% Complete, 11% In Progress
- Office of the Chief Information Officer: 83% Complete, 17% In Progress
- Open Innovation Projects: 83% Complete, 17% In Progress
- Procurement: 83% Complete, 17% In Progress
- Tech Transfer: 83% Complete, 17% In Progress
- Records Management: 81% Complete, 19% In Progress
- Financial Data Transparency: 78% Complete, 22% In Progress
- Education: 70% Complete, 30% In Progress
- Space Communications and Navigation: 63% Complete, 38% In Progress
- Declassification: 44% Complete, 56% In Progress
Footnotes
NASA’s Open Government Plan was rated highly by OpenTheGovernment.org, a group of organizations and advocates concerned with government transparency.
NASA received two “Leading Practices” Awards from the White House for achievement above and beyond the requirements of the Directive in the areas of “Participation and Collaboration” and “Flagship Initiative”.
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