Federal Mobility Strategy Ideas

The civilian side of the federal government currently has no common policies or guidelines in place on how to evaluate, validate, protect or secure mobile technologies - including mobile infrastructure, mobile devices, mobile apps, mobile data practices, etc. I suggest that the government create reasonable security guidelines so that the important work of protecting the federal computing infrastructure is not duplicated... more »

Develop a platform that will allow citizens to consume government services.

The platform should support:

* Service Aggregation, Discovery & Distribution

* Allow citizens to provide feedback on a service

* Host Data Dictionaries & API across agencies to allow small biz, citizens to develop apps (spark innovation)

* Provide Governance & Policy to manage the citizen engagement

Too often government strategic plans neglect legislative and regulatory requirements imposed on the agencies. Rightly the focus is on opportunities to modernize and participate in new models technical transformations can offer. For the Federal Mobility Strategy to be successful, it must be implementable without unduly exposing agencies to legal and administrative risks. Legal and regulatory requirements for security,... more »

Keep the government-wide guidance for mobility management at a high level and flexible, empowering agency CIOs to manage implementation. The inherent flexibility of mobile devices and low cost and rapid development cycle for mobile apps argue strongly against a rigid top-down approach. It may look a bit messy in theory but progress is more likely to be made. Miscues that occur will be part of the learning process and... more »