The action framework identifies five broad types of action where we will focus efforts to achieve our vision. Specific initiatives fall into this framework, supporting at least one, but often multiple, pillars of the framework. Use the filters below to find initiatives that relate to each area of the action framework, the opportunity areas, and core sectors.
Redesign permitting and licensing systems
Timeline: FY17-19
Coordinate business retention, expansion and attraction efforts through a data-driven, public-private committee
Timeline: FY17-18
Pilot challenge-based procurement and support institutions with local procurement
Timeline: FY17-19
Produce the Green Book, a forecast of spending needs to help SBEs find procurement opportunities, and IT procurement app
Timeline: In-progress
Pilot “One Square Mile,” an approach to catalyzing economic development in underserved communities
Timeline: FY18
Help businesses pursue government contracts through the Procurement Technical Assistance Program (PTAP)
Timeline: In-progress
Expand trade with and investment from the Middle East
Timeline: FY17-18
Secure major conventions on topics that leverage DC’s comparative convention advantages: education, medical, bio/pharmaceuticals and technology
Timeline: FY17-19
Promote businesses that design, produce or assemble in DC via Made in DC
Timeline: In-progress
Connect entrepreneurs, inventors from federal labs, and support providers to advance research commercialization
Timeline: FY17-18
Expand on-ramps into technology career pathways through coordinated internships
Timeline: FY17-18
Create an industry-advised solar installation and job training program
Timeline: FY17-20
Support Beacon, a campaign to empower DC’s female entrepreneurs
Timeline: In-progress (launched November 2016)
Build a business/worker cooperative learning community
Timeline: In-progress (began December 2016)
Train DC residents for DC government jobs through LEAP
Timeline: In-progress
Provide constructive, skill-building work for DC youth for Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)
Timeline: In-progress
Open the Inclusive Innovation Incubator (In3)
Timeline: FY17
Help longtime businesses address high-cost commercial space
Timeline: FY18-20
Create real estate career academy and incubator via MLK Gateway project
Timeline: FY18-19 (announced December 2016)
Develop major District-owned parcels to increase affordable housing supply, create jobs for District residents, and strategically catalyze business activity and achieve a community-shaped development vision
Timeline: FY17-20
Engage with the Greater Washington Partnership and other regional bodies
Timeline: In-progress (announced December 2016)
Implement the District’s open data policy and build data inventory
Timeline: In-progress (established January 2017)
Make DC the global center of mobility technology and policy
Timeline: FY17-20
Strengthen the social enterprise and impact economy ecosystem
Timeline: FY17-19
Showcase DC’s data expertise through an art show featuring data visualizations and data-centric art and related data policy summit
Timeline: FY18-19
Become a global leader of smart city innovation through the Council of Global City CIOs, Smart Gigabit Communities and Global Team Challenge (NIST)
Timeline: In-progress (announced January 2017)
Make DC the nation’s first “Lighthouse City” by pioneering Internet of Things solutions and opening coding academies
Timeline: In-progress (launched in 2016)
Create a smart city proof of concept on Pennsylvania Avenue
Timeline: In-progress