The CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government is a joint public policy project of CGI in partnership with leading academic institutions. Launched in January 2008, the initiative’s mission is to analyze models of government’s collaboration with the private and nonprofit sectors in order to identify best practices in using collaboration to achieve mission results.
Government today partners with the private and nonprofit sectors to accomplish a broad range of mission-related and administrative functions. The question is not whether collaboration will occur, but rather how agencies will collaborate most effectively while retaining strategic alignment, control and accountability. The CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government is focused on helping government answer this challenge, particularly in our special focus areas of job creation, cybersecurity, finding savings, next-generation management, health, environment and open government.
The CGI Initiative publishes reports with academic partners including George Mason University, the founding partner with CGI; the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies; and the University of Maryland Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise. The CGI Initiative also conducts webinars, produces videos, sponsors events and publishes an online newsletter. See the following links to access publications, executive summaries of events and webinars, videos and expert commentary, as well as to register for our e-newsletter, Collaborative Government Today Collaborative Government Today are available on our website.
Leadership
Andrew McLauchlin, Executive Director, CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government
Andrew McLauchlin is Executive Director of the CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government. Mr. McLauchlin is responsible for architecting and supervising CGI Initiative research projects and events in partnership with CGI Initiative Fellows and leading academic institutions. In this role, he leads collaboration with federal policymakers, Congress, agency executives, and academic thought leaders to analyze issues of critical importance to the federal government, and how the government can best apply collaborative government models to address those issues in 2011 and beyond.
Mr. McLauchlin has 21 years experience in government IT solutions and public policy analysis. Honored as a 2009 Fed 100 award winner, his experience includes facilitating discussion across OMB, Federal agencies, Congress, professional associations, and industry partners to architect strategies and solutions that enable agencies to meet both agency and government-wide objectives. Mr. McLauchlin is an active participant in professional associations such as the Industry Advisory Council, TechAmerica and the Association of Government Accountants.
Mr. McLauchlin graduated from the University of Virginia as an Echols Scholar in 1988. In 2001, he earned an eBusiness Certificate from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. In 2004, he received Notice of Allowance as the inventor of U.S. Patent 6,754,672: System and Method for Efficient Integration of Government Administrative and Program Systems.
