myAmerica Developer Summit - 2015
This is the home page of the myAmerica Developer Summit 2015!
The organization of this tree is as follows:
- challenges - Challenges include subfolders and some datasets for sessions.
- static - Static portions of the website (CSS, JS, resources)
- presentations - Presentations from the meeting (keynotes, etc.)
- code - Includes sub-folders of ALv2 licensed code produced by each session.
- report - The report from the workshop.
- index.html - The actual web site.
About the myAmerica Developer Summit 2015
The myAmerica Developer Summit is an opportunity to connect government resources (APIs, datasets, materials) with private sector innovators. The Developer Summit will include three key themes with challenges (including those solicited in an unconference style) under three broad categories: Customer Service for the 21st Century; Efficient and Improved Government; and Promoting Economic Growth.
Promoting our Nation's Public Lands and Waters
What is myAmerica? myAmerica is an initiative to bring our nations lands and waters closer to the people that they collectively belong to. There are many benefits of bringing these wild areas within closer reach; among them improving public health through accessible ways to exercise, reduce stress and spend time outdoors; education through better awareness of man’s impact on nature and a better understanding of ecological principles; cost affordable ways to travel and explore with friends and family; and a closer connection to our country’s diverse history.
The myAmerica initiative helps to expand and explore opportunities for citizen engagement and industry partnerships, and supports the Recreation One Stop (Rec1Stop) ongoing efforts to modernize reservations. We're supporting interactive planning tools, integrated third party data access efforts, data transparency, field operations support, and marketing / customer service initiatives.
Customer Service for the 21st Century
- Virtualize and customize a range of visitor services.
- Organize information with a commitment to user-focused design and in ways that best serve the needs of the public, vs. reflecting the information architecture of existing bureaucracies.
- Platforms to encourage development of interactive maps, podcasts, hospitality services, enhanced visitor experiences, push notifications, language translation, trip planning.
Efficient and Improved Government
+Leverage innovations across several agencies to create an integrated platform for data on all federal lands and waters. This approach will mitigate the need to recreate separate applications and websites for different public lands and waters visitor sites. +Empower local agency personnel to keep content fresh and highly relevant to the local visitor experience, but streamline the backend planning, governance, technology, evaluation and methodology.
Promoting Economic Growth
- Foster innovation by making the platform flexible and extensible to multiple modes (interactive kiosks, websites, mobile, etc.) and by making information freely available in open formats so that the private sector can leverage and expand the use of the information.
- Partnerships will expand the impact of federal efforts through collaboration and open data sharing with a broad network of potential partners who can pull information into tools and services where the public is already searching for this type of information.
Tweeting and Social Media
If you are considering tweeting about the site, please use the hashtag [#dev4outdoors]
Website
myAmerica Developer Summit 2015
Credits and Thanks
Much of the format and approach for the "unconference" site comes from that established for the very cool [NSF Polar Cyberinfrastructure Hackathon] (https://github.com/NSF-Polar-Cyberinfrastructure/datavis-hackathon) - thx guys!