Networked Government: The 21st Century Agency
Four futurists from the Futures Working Group will present a vision of governance in the Information Age. They will integrate insights from existing literature, experience, and independent research to describe how a future government agency can leverage the potential of net-centric organization, self-organization, and nurturing neighborhoods to provide governance in the 2020s.
Incorporating still and motion imagery, the panel will describe the dream of the net-centric organization. Using the concrete example of a local police department, the panel will demonstrate a design for an organization that operates using net-centric principles and interacts with society from a network perspective to help build strong and crime-resistant neighborhoods. From this foundation, a conversation with attendees will address issues in development of the cultures and public expectations necessary to deliver the dream.
Attendees can comment on Twitter using the #FWGNet2012 tag. GoogleDocs will be used to “crowdsource” implementation points with the audience.
Participants will leave the session with an understanding of:
- A vision of the future in which government agencies are highly agile and adaptive entities that can deliver governance with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
- How agencies will think in networks and utilize self-organizing networks to solve problems.
- The theoretical foundations of net-centric organizations and how we might bring them about.
John Jackson is a scholar of public policy and public administration and a practicing police supervisor in the Houston Police Department, Houston, Texas, USA
Thomas J. Cowper is a police executive with 29 years police service. His law enforcement career has included assignments conducting the planning, development and application of information age technologies to police, public safety, and government operations, Middle Grove, New York, USA
Bernard “Bud” Levin, faculty member at Blue Ridge Community College, Staff member of the Waynesboro, Virginia, Police Department, Fisherville, Virginia USA
Mary O’Dea, is a senior strategist at the Strategic Policy Division, she develops and analyses United States, Joint, military, and USSOCOM strategies as well as strategic posture initiatives and makes recommendations designed to address the future operational environment, Tampa, Florida, USA
