Graphical Summary
Download the Graphical Summary of the NASA Open Government Plan v2.0
Flagship
NASA’s web environment is well known for providing an unparalleled wealth of
information to the public and is critical in fulfilling the agency’s
statutory requirement to disseminate information about its programs “to the
widest extent practicable.” Our new Flagship Initiative focuses our
resources on creating an accessible, participatory and transparent web
environment based on open and interoperable standards – representing what
Open Government at its best can and should be.
Majors
The major Initiatives – Open Source, Open Data, and Technology Accelerators
– exemplify our best efforts to embrace transparency, participation and
collaboration in NASA’s policy, technology, and culture. NASA’s broad
commitment to technology acceleration includes public-private partnerships,
co-located spaces, citizen engagement and innovation mentoring – in addition
to making enormous amounts of open data available for public use. Open Data
and Open Source efforts allow us to engage the public in collaborative
application development, use of scientific data, and knowledge sharing as we
work together to pioneer the future.
Highlights
By recognizing current initiatives that exemplify the values of Open
Government, this Plan is intended as a model – not a manual – for change
throughout the Agency. Applauding these successes across centers and
organizations creates a social incentive for our workforce to innovate,
encouraging them to continue looking for ways to be more efficient, to
further enhance our relationships existing stakeholders, and to create new
partnerships.
Directory
As openness becomes even more pervasive throughout the Agency’s culture,
both at the organizational and individual level, we are taking the unique
opportunity to collect all the activities and success stories related to
Open Government at NASA. The Plan’s new directory of participatory,
collaborative and transparent activities represents how Open Government
continues to evolve at NASA – and gives citizens the opportunity to respond
and engage.
Framework
In our history, we have achieved seemingly impossible goals, from reaching
the Moon to advancing fundamental knowledge about our place in the universe.
In the past we often created the technologies to achieve these goals on
internal project teams. NASA must now innovate on how we innovate, focusing
on technologies that advance humanity into space while more directly
involving citizens and public-private partnerships. The Open Government
Directive also calls on us to change the way we do business, and as a result
turn us into a twenty-first-century space program for a twenty-first-century
democracy.