OMB drafting governmentwide mobile strategy

The Office of Management and Budget unveiled Jan. 11 the outline of a draft federal mobile strategy and kicked off a 10-day national dialogue on improving citizen services and federal workforce mobility. Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel announced the intiative while attending an event co-located at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev.

VanRoekel is expected to provide more details on the strategy and the dialogue at an industry event in Washington, D.C. Jan. 13.

According to the mobile-strategy site, the forthcoming strategy will address: the case for mobility within the government, federal mobile goals, guiding principles, core objectives and a roadmap of mobility milestones.

The dialogue site prompts visitors to share ideas for accomplishing mobile strategy goals and use cases demonstrating successful mobile implementation at the agency level. Ideas should focus on the six core objectives of the strategy, which are:

• Incorporating mobile into government efforts;
• Building mobile with an eye toward sharing among agencies;
• Buying and managing mobile effectively;
• Creating a federal foundation for mobile services and functionality;
• Fostering collaboration; and
• Establishing governance.

For more:
- see the dialogue website
- see a draft strategy outline

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