Faster Administration of Science and Technology Education and Research (FASTER) Community of Practice (CoP)
Overview
FASTER’s goal is to enhance collaboration and accelerate agencies’ adoption of advanced IT capabilities developed by Government-sponsored IT research.
FASTER is designed for Federal agency CIOs and/or their advanced technology specialists. FASTER, seeks to accelerate deployment of promising research technologies; share protocol information, standards, and best practices; and coordinate and disseminate technology assessment and testbed results. The use of IT systems by Federal agencies is coordinated by the Federal CIO Council under the leadership of Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and federally supported IT research is coordinated by NITRD under the leadership of OSTP (with OMB participation). FASTER, supported by the NITRD NCO, communicates with OMB and the Federal CIO Council concerning IT R&D matters that are of general interest to Federal agencies.
FASTER is responding to the Open Government Directive by using the technologies of the Social Data Web (e.g., Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web).
Expedition Workshops
FASTER hosted an Expedition Workshop in January 2010 on Open Government which included presentations on "The X Prize Model1 for Innovation through Competition", "An Example of a Global Open Innovation Model: Quantity and Units of Measurement Ontology Standard Initiative2", and "Open Innovation Enabled by Global Federation of Science and Technical Knowledge3."
1 The X Prize Model for Innovation through Competition, Erika B. Wagner PhD, Executive Director, X PRIZE Lab at MIT
2 Quantity and Units of Measurement Ontology Standard Initiative, Steven R. Ray, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, NASA Research Park
3 Open Innovation Enabled by Global Federation of Science and Technical Knowledge, Walter L. Warnick, Director, Dept. of Energy, Office of Science and Technical Information
