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SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
Recovery.gov must be the direct link between the citizen and the Recovery. Citizens,
no matter their level of technical or political expertise, must be able to deeply engage
with the Recovery and monitor its progress in their local communities and on a national
level. Realizing this potential for Recovery.gov begins with a team philosophy imbued
with transparency and openness and then continues into a disciplined approach to
developing the complex data and graphical systems to ensure that those standards are
met.
In addition to creating our own compelling data visualizations and tools for customizable
visualizations and widgets, we will engage developers in the user-base to participate in
creating new tools for data visualization. This free exchange of services reflects the
Recovery.gov mantra of transparency and openness. It fosters the sense of community
that is tied to this endeavor. It also greatly enhances the potential of the site. Instead of
limiting the site's development to a small set of contracted professionals it opens it up to
a new realm of solutions and creative insights. We will encourage this throughout our
stewardship of the site and find innovative ways to reward and showcase the individuals
or group that freely provide new capabilities and visualization services.
To illustrate the impact of the new Recovery.gov, our team has imagined some of the
citizens who will be affected by the new site. These serve as a guiding light and an
inspiration for our efforts; indeed, it is through creating a site for them that we will enable
the transparency that the effort of our economic recovery demands.
On the new Recovery.gov we will watch the YouTube video of a father who has finally
gotten back to work - working on a ecologically friendly transportation project that
cannot be outsourced - as he speaks about the pride he feels coming home to his
family after a long days work building a new transportation infrastructure.
On the new Recovery.gov we will see the Flickr photos that a retiree has tagged of the
Recovery-funded infrastructure projects in her community. While many of these are
examples of gleaming new wind turbines or a new high-speed rail line, one photo draws
the attention of other users on the site because it shows dead trees being planted along
the side of a road. Driven by its viral popularity, the photos "rise to the top" and brought
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to the administrators of the fund. An investigation ensues and the recovery program is
made more efficient.
A congressman will post a new Recovery.gov widget on his website, tracking all of the
ARRA funds that have been invested in his district. He will pull this widget up on his
iPhone.
On the new Recovery.gov we will make available customizable widgets so that users
can that a hyper-local blogger in Portland, Maine can post in his sidebar to track the
funding.
On the new Recovery.gov we will make our data open in the most accessible data
formats on highly available servers. We will allow you to make custom RSS feeds that
generate the specific data that is updating in your community. We will empower users
to collect data and then submit their visualizations back to the site.
On the new Recovery.gov we will see dynamic, powerful charts, graphs, and maps
linked to the real story of the Recovery of our economy and the development of our
future ...
Our team has the creative power to bring this vision to life. We have assembled the
experts that understand the financial data. We have rich expertise in knowing how users
can best view and comprehend the data. And our technology experts have experience
in delivering fault tolerant, secure, and robust enterprise platforms under compressed
timeframes.
This proposal outlines our innovative approach and demonstrates our commitment,
exuberance, and forethought in working with the Recovery.gov team in deploying this
solution of national importance.
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Recovery.gov's audience and present to them an innovative Web 2.0 experience. Our
expert design team will utilize state-of-the-art user experience design coupled with a
deep understanding of both the act and usability best practices to codify the incoming
data-stream into cohesive, relevant data points to increase awareness and
understanding for users of all levels.
To facilitate transparency and to engage the audience, a deep understanding of the
user's perspective on the act is required. Our extensive government experience has
enabled us to take a user-centric perspective on both the organization of the site
content as well as the content itself. While access to the mechanisms that comprise the
bill is public record and available to all citizens, the meaning behind the act can become
obscured by legal language that provides no context to the average American citizen.
Our approach to building a highly-usable, intuitive user-experience to the widest variety
of constituent audience members centers on translating government economic syntax
into messaging and context to which the user can easily relate.
For demonstration purposes, we have focused our work around providing context for
three distinct audience segments:
• An average citizen seeking information about how the stimulus will affect them and
their locality.
• A federal agency employee seeking information and statistics.
• A member of the press seeking statistics an9 story ideas involving stimUlus
spending.
• A member of the open source development community that can extend solutions out
to the American people in a free flow of information and transparency.
Though each of these audience segments may have a distinct motivation for visiting
Recovery.gov, we have utilized consistent user experience design throughout all areas
of the site. To facilitate transparency, we have developed a flattened user experience
design that not only prioritizes simplicity for the average American citizen, but provides
intuitive access to all user groups. This allows all users to visit all areas of the site in an
efficient manner to access information via a method of their choosing. This flat, easily
navigated structure reinforces the site's overarching goal of transparency.
To meet the aggressive deployment schedule specified, we have developed a strategy
to migrate the existing site content as well as add innovative Web 2.0 functionality to
Recovery.gov. This approach will combine leverage of third party social networking sites
with technology that will be built into the Recovery.gov site itself. This will allow not only
the widest reach available, but will also provide users with a means to share information
with both the administration and other users. This approach ostensibly creates
Recovery.gov advocates out of each user that leverages the functionality to engage in
dialog about the recovery.
As this site will serve as a portal, or gateway, for all information regarding the stimulus,
it will need to be accessible by all audiences. We have provided off-site links to the
various agencies, states and localities from which users may seek additional information
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regarding the ARRA. This off-site linking strategy provides both a service to the user by
serving as a true portal to the information they seek as well as enhancing the organic
search results for Recovery.gov amongst the most popular search engines.
To enhance the user experience for all users, we have developed a prototype utilizing
only ADA Section 508 compliant methods and technologies. Everyone on our design
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agency employee tasked to report on spending for a certain state or reg ion to a reporter
seeking information on the number of tons of concrete generated by stimulus dollars.
Our proposal, as requested, includes a phased implementation approach. To maximize
the effectiveness of our efforts during the aggressive implementation schedule, we are
recommending the use of both in-site Web 2.0 technologies as well as third-party social
networking solutions . Our proposed breakdown is as follows:
• In-Site Solution: (1) User-feedback capabilities; (2) Functionality for users to share
content on various external sites; (3) Functionality to send content via e-mail or
SMS; (4) Functionality for users to sign-up to receive stimulus news via a mobile
device; (5) Search functionality; (6) Geographic Information Systems functionality to
provide rudimentary localization; (7) RSS feed functionality; (8) Various Flash-based
rich media applications; and (9) User provided content (photos, video) per project.
• Off-Site Solution: Facebook, Ning, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, etc.
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3. Feedback - Invites citizens to comment
on funding expenditures through a simple
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To satisfy page restrictions, we have included abbreviated use case samples below,
coupled with a narrative persona for demonstration purposes. These excerpts represent
top line user scenarios that will be fully developed upon award .
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The objective of Recovery.gov, while straight forward in its intent, is very difficult to
deliver if one looks beneath the surface to what is required to help ensure that the data
and information is timely, accurate and accessible. If any of these basic three elements
are not met, risk and unintended consequences are introduced. When one goes beyond
the web-site query and presentation capabilities by adding the requirements for
analytics, reporting, data reconciliation, as well as detection and reporting of potential
fraud waste & abuse, all manner of new risks are introduced and the current ones
accelerate.
Recognizing this, KPMG brings a framework, process, and methodology to address
large-scale data issues and the inherent risks and unintended consequences that can
arise. Further differentiating KPMG is an execution focus that delivers a ...
".... dynamic system, not a monolithic, turnkey solution. Rather, it will be a
framework of tools, processes, platform, infrastructure and policy that will
deliver a strategic information asset to the people, the agencies and to the
government. The deliverables of this effort are therefore a starting point;
providing immediate information and a development platform for
addressing future data/information needs."
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Open Source for Development Community. One of the benefits of our open design is
that it enables an entirely new ecosystem of developers. We are targeting web pages
specifically to the development community to be able to use Recovery.gov as a trusted
and authoritative source of ARRA data. This includes creating tutorials showcasing how
developers can access our powerful web and query services to obtain the data.
Developers can access our source feeds via download , via RESTful web service
discovery, via ATOM I RSS feeds, or via open reporting language (XBRL). This
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capability will allow other sites to create "informed" mash-ups using authoritative
Recovery.gov data.
This free exchange of services reflects the Recovery.gov mantra of transparency and
openness. It fosters the sense of community that is tied to this endeavor. It also greatly
enhances the potential of the site. Instead of limiting the site's development to a small
set of contracted professionals it opens it up to a new realm of solutions and creative
insights. We will encourage this throughout our stewardship of the site and find
innovative ways to reward and showcase the individuals or group that freely provide
new capabilities and visualization services.
Storage. To maintain the data integrity, replication, uptime, and performance, a Storage
Array Network (SAN) is being proposed. Fiber-channel switches will used for maximum
efficiency and performance to the SAN that delivers the flexible, open, standards-based
storage infrastructure solutions to enable an adaptive, resilient data storage
environment.
Certification & Accreditation (C&A). In accordance with NIST SP 800-37, Guide for
the Security Certification and Accreditation of Federal Information Systems, Team
Smartronix will achieve an accreditation for the Recovery.org system. This includes
completing the requirements for the following phases: Initiation, Security Certification,
Security Accreditation, and Continuous Monitoring.
Implementation of security controls throughout the Recovery.org solution are designed
to meet or exceed all RATS, NIST, OMS and other Federal Government Information
Assurance mandates. Validation of this compliance is accomplished through the
utilization and implementation of the C&A process during the initial design and
implementation phase, upon security and compliance validation during the change
process, and during periodic system reviews in the continuous monitoring phase of
C&A.
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