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RegNet: An NPR Regulatory Reform Initiative Toward NII/GII Collaboratories
RegNet: An NPR Regulatory Reform Initiative Toward NII/GII Collaboratories
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Nyhart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kenneth Kaplan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bill Ribarsly, Georgia Institute of Technology Gio Wiederhold, Stanford University Michael R Genesereth, Stanford University Kenneth Gilpat~ric, National Performance Review NetResults.RegNet and Administrative Conference of the United States Formerly Tim E Roxey, National Performance Review RegNet.Indust~y, Baltimore Gas and Electric, and Council for Excellence in Government William J
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This is the so-called citizen-centered form of governance. BACKGROUND The six planning and demonstration projects contemplated in this paper are best understood as having three conceptual dimensions, as shown In Figure I
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Regulatory Many -to -Many One -to - Many One-to-lwo One-to-One 7 Governmental , / Tribal / State /Loca1 , . / County / Municinal / Federal / International Conservative Progressive Emerging Advanced X-Axis: Information Technology FIGURE 1 Complexities owing to three conceptual dimensions of demonstration projects.
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of ITsophishcanon virtual 3-D interfaces and data representation, competent Al agents, immersive VR. Y-Axis: Regulatory Functions Before discussing regulatory functions, we should step back and look at functions of government more broadly.
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FIGURE 2 Three branches of government plus administrative and regulatory agencies as a fourth, to handle increasing volume and complexity of information. Requirements of organized ingenuity, production, and distribution for nationwide conflict combined after the Civil War with private economies of scale and a competitive, almost predatory work ethic (expressed In the doctrines of Social Darw~nism and laissez-faire)
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Certainly, our short history gives no idea of the extensive variety of regulatory function practiced today and the detailed articulation of those functions wig private entities. ~ important ways, the detailed variety and extensive articulation are aspects of the problem that our six proposed projects are designed to address.
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582 FIGURE 3 A one-to~ne~xchange. Member of the ' public, regu lated entity, or govern `; tangency ~ | Orze-to-one infer- | I matron exchange I Agency Info & Admin Functions FIGURE 4 A one-to-two relationship.
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A comprehensive map of these groups would be dizzyingly complex, but a simplified scale is developed below that allows us to tear apart the complexity, to locate governmental units and their customers along a spectrum of entity scope, and to describe regions where each of the six proposed projects are relevant both as to project operations and as to end-product users.
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The RegNet national plan integrates (1) ongoing reinventing government and regulatory reform initiatives, and (2)
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. It provides opportunity for ~ntercit~zen, interindustry, and ~ntergovernment participation in regulatory processes and In regulatory reform.
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by playing a vital role in meeting national economic and security goals and objectives. The NCSA RegNet project addresses and responds to these challenges by underpinning a plan and demonstration project that is based on national goals and objectives (reinventing government, regulatory reform, grand challenge applications, and national challenge applications vital to national prospenty, including NIl and GIl initiatives)
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The RegNet national plan encompasses all regulators and regulated stakeholders (industries and the public) under the reinventing government and regulatory reform initiatives of NPR.
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It would be total chaos to try to address every possible demonstration project of how technology can be used to solve or overcome obstacles to regulatory reform. Our decision in this paper and in the related documents has been to choose five projects Hat
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. These projects, along with the RegNet national plan, described above, provide a success path that governments at all levels can follow to move their regulatory functions effectively into the Information Age.
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Additionally, there can also be participation both by industry consortia groups and by public interest groups. This type of workspace environment will be central to many of He national challenge applications where public interactive access is a requirement.
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To implement this collaborative workspace, information infrastructure tools are necessary. Since a collaborative workspace allows users to visualize information in new and dynamic ways, users may want to make notes about what they find, or to query an object to obtain specific information about the object in the space.
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For example, one powerful application currently being explored is Me dissemination and display of U.S. government documents, including those concerning federal regulatory processes.
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Government units: Local, State, Federal . Principal investigators: lames Foley, William Ribarsky, Lany Hodges, and Nicholas Faust, Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, GTS Center, Georgia Institute of Technology Statement of Problem To get involved in the regulatory environment, people typically turn to experts for assistance.
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Planners for new buildings or other facilities can see full 3-D views Tom their prospective sites or can see the view from nearby existing buildings with their planned facility in place. VGIS is implemented using the simple virtual environment (SVE)
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. The Champaign County database will build on the regulatory and other information already available via CCNet (the Champaign County network)
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The annotations could be passed among remote users or even used in an asynchronous mode where notes left at one time are collected, organized, and reviewed at a later time. Demonstration Project Four: Intelligent Distributed Access to Regulatory Information .
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Such analysis tools would empower workers in their specific domains and allow cooperation without centralization. Demonstration Project Five: Rural Government Testbed Project .
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Through the rural government teethed project, Me citizens of Champaign County wall be able to use the technology for specific purposes and realize the benefits of technology for interacting with multiple government agencies. The level of awareness and of current electronic connectivity In Champaign County optimizes our chances of success In the rural government testbed.
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To solve these problems, we wall include two additional features In the rural government testbed project: I A text-search mechanism developed as part of the Digital Library Initiative (DLI)
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STATUTES AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS _ Wi~ the plan proposed here, modified by Be lessons learned from We implementation of We demonstration projects also proposed here, fixture intergovernmental regulatory projects can be developed in such a way that they more effectively support the national goals and objectives and national challenge applications. These goals and applications are found In a series of statutes and executive orders: .
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21. Executive Order 12864, United States Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure, September 15, 1993.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 301/415-5858 voice wnt~nrc.gov nthompso~tmn.com J.D. Nyhart, Professor of Management and Ocean Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management 50 Memorial Dnve, E52542 Cambndge, MA 02142-1437 617/253-1582 voice 617/253-2660 fax jdnyhart~mit.edu Kenneth Kaplan, Principal Research Scientist Department of Architecture and Research Laboratory for Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambndge, MA 02139 617/258-9122 voice 617/258-7231 fax kkap~mit.edu Bill Ribarsky, Associate Director for Service Georgia Institute of Technology OIT/Educational Technologies Graphic Visualization and Usability Center Room 229 Himan Atlanta, GA 30332-0710 404/894~148 voice 404/894-9548 fax bill.
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gov Tim E Roxey National Performance Review RegNet.IndusHy, Lead Baltimore Gas and Electric, Project Manager Regulatory Projects 1650 Calvert Cliffs Parkway Lusby, MD 20656 Council for Excellence in Government (CEG)
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westlab. com Jim Acklin, CEO Regulatory Information Alliance 8806 Sleepy Hollow Lane Potomac, MI)
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