ORB Visualization
(soon)
Proposal
to the FCC
The complaint made to the
Inspector General’s office
With references to people and companies removed
(copy at: Draft
Sunday, November 23, 2003)
Edited
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Several
technology company management level officials and board members have recently
talked about a required "educational process" needed to help the FCC
understand the current capabilities that are to be derived from commercial
taxonomy technology. A demonstration of
this capability is to be contributed at no cost. A university based supporting project could start in January
2000.
The demonstration site is up as of December 02, 2003
It
is contemplated that a one-year contract with George Washington University could
fund university participation and objective facilitation of Industry
contributions to the FCC Impact document management system and to other similar
government agency projects. The university-based contract, if approved,
could be managed for under $400,000.
We
will not push this idea of a university center to address what
has been called the efficiency gap, between what is promised to the
American public and what is allowed to be produced by agency IT managers.
We are depending on markets and the entrepreneur spirit. Industry leaders are willing to participate in such a university-based project as a means to advance high quality commercial technology in a systemic fashion.
At
the FCC, and in other agencies, the concern is that privileged deliberative
processes might be revealed after the fact. Legal interpretation needs to
be developed in an environment where later interpretations are in fact
minimized. This is understandable. However, the Business Case for the Impact
project claimed that implementing high quality document management practices
with selective workflow and knowledge management could close an efficiency gap
at the FCC.
OntologyStream
Inc provides clear evidence that the implementation process managed by the FCC
is deeply, but not irreversibly flawed.
The
limiting cultural barriers are well understood within the communities of practice
at the FCC. There is a willingness and
ready audience for mature technology as conceived in the Impact Business
Case.
Under
our reconciliation proposal, a research center at George Washington
University will be established to receive taxonomy, knowledge management and
ontology software and methodology.
During the course of the next year, this research center will work to
inform the FCC staff about how to use software contributed by Industry for the
demonstration period.
Industry leaders have agreed that very low cost evaluation should occur within this educational environment.