schedules and standards. A. There is hereby established the Oklahoma State Government 2.0 Initiative. B. The State Governmental Technology Applications Review Board shall consider and approve a standardized social media policy for use by state agencies, boards, commissions and public trusts having the State of Oklahoma as a beneficiary. C. The board shall establish open technology standards and a schedule by which state agencies, boards, commissions and public trusts having the State of Oklahoma as a beneficiary shall utilize these standards to provide citizens with web-based interactivity to state government services. Whenever possible these standards shall match commonly used standards by other government entities. D. The board shall set a schedule by which state agencies, boards, commissions and public trusts having the State of Oklahoma as a beneficiary shall publish and update convenience information sets which shall be accessible through standardized application programming interfaces and published in standardized formats including but not limited to eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and Comma Separated Value (CSV) formats. The board shall establish application programming interface standards which enable access to convenience information sets. The schedule shall place an emphasis on first making accessible convenience information sets most commonly requested in open records requests. A directory and link to all available convenience information sets shall be prominently featured on the portal system referenced in Section 34.24 of this title and if possible linked to the data.ok.gov web portal. E. The board may conduct events and contests to provide recognition of software application development provided that the application being recognized utilizes standards established in this section to the benefit of the citizens of Oklahoma. F. The board shall establish an application process through which applicants can request the scheduled implementation of application programming interfaces, creation of open technology standards and publication of convenience information sets pursuant to the provisions of this section. Instructions regarding the application process shall be prominently featured on the portal system referenced in Section 34.24 of this title. G. State agencies, boards, commissions and public trusts having the State of Oklahoma as a beneficiary shall comply with the policies, schedules and standards established by this section. H. The board shall promulgate performance information metrics and guidelines which shall be used to establish criteria which govern participation in the "State Government Employee Performance Transparency Pilot Program". The board shall set a schedule for the publication of performance information metrics through the data.ok.gov website. I. For the purposes of this section, "open technology standards" are widely accepted standards and mechanisms for the web- based connectivity and asynchronous communication between software programs. "Application programming interface" is a standardized interface enabling a standard form of connectivity between convenience information sets and software programs, "performance information metrics" are sets of information which reflect the performance of state employees and state agencies, and "convenience information sets" are sets of information which are subject to public access under the Oklahoma Open Records Act and which do not contain personally identifiable information. Added by Laws 2010, c. 475, § 4, emerg. eff. June 10, 2010. Amended by Laws 2011, c. 292, § 9; Laws 2013, c. 358, § 7, eff. July 1, 2013.
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