Providing contextual awareness software and services (CASS) from the Non-Profit One World Information System (OWIS) to unify the digitally recorded knowledge of the nation and the world for easy and low-cost use government use, thus dramatically improving service to citizens and operations.

TARGET:  TO DEPLOY THE OWIS CASS CAPABILITY, ENABLING APPROPRIATELY SECURE AND SITUATIONALLY RELEVANT UNIFIED DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE FOR COMMON USE WITHIN AND ACROSS GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR NON-GOVERNMENT PARTNERS.

• Simplify personnel interactions, database applications, online services, communication and data sharing, analytics, and the operations and management of all government organizations, communities, groups, and individuals.
• Enable government knowledge-workers to appropriately and securely organize, share, and unify their distinct knowledge and viewpoints into a common networked knowledge pool.

A unified knowledge capability, beyond that of current global “Semantic Web” efforts, is now easily attainable.   It will support knowledge sharing and provide new and current government and supporting-contractor operations with revolutionary capabilities for: analysis, extended general-use enterprise architecture, planning, decision-making, and performance management.  We achieve this by providing user-specific situationally relevant historical and current knowledge from public networks and limited-access government networks.

FINANCIAL:  The key OWIS financial objective stages are:

1. Formally document the design and completes an operational prototype CASS web-software product in three months for $100,000, using its solution architecture and system design, and using open-source technology.
2. Complete a secure pilot CASS web-software product for a government client organization in three months for $150,000, using mostly open-source technology.
3. Complete a highly secure commercial CASS web-software product in three months for $200,000 using either open-source or commercial technology.
4. Establish over six months, for $1,250,000, in parallel with the software pilot and final software development, the CASS capability branding and a CASS service capability sufficient for 100,000 online government, contractor, and citizen users, at $25per year per user-account.
5. Achieve sales of 5,000 CASS full-user accounts per month thereafter, with an increase in service capacity sufficient to have capacity for 25,000 accounts for rapid growth needs.
6. Provide those citizens who cannot afford the full-user account fees with free basic-feature accounts after selling 20,000 paid user accounts, using donated funds, operating profit, and other non-profit revenues to cover the free account costs.

STATUS:  CASS capability analysis and design over the past several years, and recent advances in semantic technology and market awareness of knowledge-management, position this CASS opportunity to be appealing for early innovators and those seeking quick, major, and managed, change.

ACTION:  Provide one or more Grants or Sole Source contracts to fund the sequence of CASS capability development and deployment initiatives.  Distribute this proposal to 10 other government executives or managers, and your supporting contractors, to gain additional support and pooled funding.

Roy Roebuck, +1 (703) 598-2351, roy@one-world-is.org, 06/16/2009.