interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Mary Davie
summary
Office overseeing $4B in IT and services experiments with procurement 2.0 by running a UserVoice platform with about 140 ideas and thousands of visits, hosting a collaborative wiki to co-write requirements, pushing status via Twitter and a blog, and running an acquisition group on GovLoop (~500 members). Early pilots produce concrete lessons about what parts of the acquisition lifecycle go open, which stay internal, and link to BetterBuyPro.com and betterbuypro.f.gsa.gov.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Mary Davie introduction
- 0:24Procurement 2.0 defined
- 1:28Crowdsourcing with UserVoice
- 2:29Web 2.0 toolkit for transparency
- 3:12GovLoop community connections
- 4:15Tech to simplify procurement
- 5:40From hoarding to sharing
- 6:43Overcoming openness fear
- 7:46Successes and future plans
- 9:11Integration with Open Gov Plan
- 9:54Better Buy Project resources








