FCW Insider: FCW-WFED radio show with EPA CIO Molly O'Neill

I'm backed up posting shows from FCW's The delay isn't totally my fault, I might add. Federal News Radio was having some issues getting the shows posted, but we seem to have worked out the issues and... I'll get to it this week. This one is from Tuesday, June 24, but I held it in part because I didn't want it to get lost in the Fourth of July vacations. That is because it is one of my favorite programs we have done so far this year. It features , EPA's Assistant Administrator for the Office of Environmental Information (OEI) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). To put it simply, O'Neill is one of government's best and brightest. In fact, EPA has something of a history of getting some of the best CIOs. O'Neill's took over from Kim Nelson, who is now at Microsoft. Both of them are two of the brightest minds out there.My first real dealings with O'Neill was soon after she was confirmed to the EPA CIO post and she agreed to attend 1105 GovInfo's Government Leadership Summit, which at that time was called the CIO Summit. It was the first event on all of this Web 2.0 stuff. It was a really good conference, if I do say so myself. Don Tapscott, the author of Wikinomics, was one of our keynote speakers [read ]. People came away from the Summit really charged up about the possibilities. Well, many people quickly lose that charged feeling when they get back to the daily grind. But O'Neill didn't. She has actually used these ideas and put EPA at the forefront of the government's experimentation with Web 2.0 and Government 2.0.EPA, after all, is uniquely suited for these kinds of collaborative technologies. EPA's environmental mission involves many different groups -- federal, state and local governments, interest groups, interested people. It can be complex. Furthermore, EPA depends on others for data. And most of the environmental data is public. So all of this bodes well for using these kinds of collaborative technologies in a useful way.With that as background, here is our conversation with EPA's rock-star CIO Molly O'Neill.Here is some background reading:* Back in March, as part of an , FCW looked at four studies in collaboration. Case . The EPA did a white paper on the Puget Sound case. You can [.doc]... or look at a somewhat less formatted . * [FCW.com, Feb. 5, 2008]* EPA was mentioned in a larger story about blogs [May 12, 2008]* [FCW.com, June 10, 2008]* [FCW.com, June 13, 2008]EPA launched a temporary blog to collect best practices on information sharing from the public.GSA's Josh Sawislak, a senior adviser to the administrator at the General Services Administration and acting chief emergency response and recovery officer.