nsf international: cyber-enabled collaborations with low-resource science communities
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NSF International: Cyber-Enabled Collaborations with Low-Resource Science Communities. Presented to the Internet2 Workshop: Extending the Reach of Advanced Networking April 22, 2004 Lori A. Perine Special Advisor International Cyberinfrastructure - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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NSF International: Cyber-Enabled Collaborations with Low-Resource Science Communities
Presented to the Internet2 Workshop:
Extending the Reach of Advanced Networking
April 22, 2004
Lori A. PerineSpecial Advisor
International Cyberinfrastructure
Office of International Science and Engineering
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Today’s Presentation
• Context– OISE mission, core contributions, & organization– Supported activities– Importance of CI
• Proposed OISE priorities in CI• Focus on Low-Resource Environments
– Proposed approach– Proposed implementation strategy
• What next?
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Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) Mission
To foster international cooperation as an integral part of the NSF’s activities to advance the health of U.S. science and engineering.
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/int
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OISE Core Contributions
• Provide leadership, expertise and representation for US government policy relevant to areas that impact on international scientific collaborations (e.g. national security, intellectual property rights, trade), as well as related country- and region-specific expertise on policy, history and customs
• Provide leadership and expertise with respect to country and regional strengths in science and engineering disciplines, including key institutions, people, and past/current/potential collaborations
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OISE Core Contributions (2)
• Enable leveraging of NSF funding via working with foreign counterparts (bilateral co-funding mechanisms) and other sources of funding such as US government agencies with international programs and interests, international organizations, foundations, and corporations
• Provide leadership and expertise in mechanisms for building and sustaining international collaborations, whether researcher-to-researcher, institution-to-institution, center-to-center, or government-to-government
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OISE Core Contributions (3)
• Provide leadership in engaging the US science and engineering community in a broad range of international experiences – special emphasis on junior researchers, students,
diversification of the US cadre scientists, and
collaboration with developing countries
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OISE Objectives
• Serve as focal point for international S&E activities inside & outside NSF
• Promote an integrated NSF-wide international strategy
• Manage international programs that are innovative, catalytic, and responsive to the broad range of NSF interests
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Components of Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Science & Engineering
CollaborationServices
Knowledge managementinstitutions for collection buildingand curation of data, information,
literature, digital objects
High-performance computingfor modeling, simulation, data
processing/mining
Individual &Group Interfaces& Visualization
Physical World
People
Facilities for activation,manipulation and
construction
Instruments forobservation andcharacterization.
GlobalConnectivity
A broad, systemic, strategic conceptualization
Intrinsically global (international) system for collaboration
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What is the Importance of Cyberinfrastructure to OISE?
• Enable transparent collaboration between science and engineering communities worldwide
• Provide US scientists with access to distributed international scientific resources , e.g. instrumentation, data, and computational facilities research partners for/to discover and share new knowledge
• Provide US scientists and their international collaborators with new learning opportunities across distance, time, and fields of expertise
• Foster technological innovation to enhance collaborative research and learning opportunities in low-resource science and education communities, both domestic (e.g. MSIs) and international (e.g. developing countries)
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Characteristics of OISE’s CI-Related Priorities
• Demand-driven: domain science and education opportunities
• Assure benefit to U.S. science and engineering
• Leverage OISE unique/value-added contribution to NSF’s programs and activities
• Highlight the international dimension of CI
• Partnership with CISE emphasizes complementarity in development, implementation and management of international CI elements
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Proposed OISE CI-Related Priorities
Domain science international collaborations International partnerships for developing
cyberinfrastructure “Science of International Cyberinfrastructure” Low-resource international scientific
communities
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Proposed OISE Priorities:Domain Science Int’l Collaborations
• Objective: Mobilize cyberinfrastructure-enabled collaborations between US scientists and engineers and international research and practitioner communities in various disciplines
• Examples: – Center for High Energy Physics Research and Education
Outreach (CHEPREO) http://www.chepreo.org
– GriPhyN/iVDGL & Grid2003 http://www.ivdgl.org/grid2003/
– GEON-Cyberinfrastructure for the Geoscienceshttp://www.geongrid.org/
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Proposed OISE Priorities: Int’l Partnerships for Developing CI
• Objective: Enable the establishment and management of bilateral and multilateral international partnerships for development and deployment of core CI tools, architectures, and infrastructure
• Examples:– International Research Network Connections
http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf04560 – Global Ring Network for Advanced Application and
Development (GLORIAD) http://www.gloriad.org/http://apan.net/GLORIAD-Opening-Flash.exe
– Ampath http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/
– Pacific Rim GRID and Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) http://www.pragma-grid.net/
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Proposed OISE Priorities for CI: “Science of Int’l CI”
• Objective: Focusing on the international dimensions of CI, enable multidisciplinary research on the dynamics of CI-facilitated international science, engineering, and education collaborations
• Examples:– May initially come out of HSD solicitation
– Previous CISE awards begin to look generally at socio-technical aspects of collaboratories
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Proposed OISE Priorities for CI: Low-resource Int’l Science
Communities • Objective: Leverage relevant elements of the integrated CI
system to provide US scientists and engineers with increased access to international scientific communities in developing countries and other low-resource areas
• Examples:– ICT for Sustainable Development
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~rtongia/itsd.htm
– Network Startup Resource Centerhttp://www.nsrc.org/
– Digital Divide and the HEPGridhttp://www.lishep.uerj.br/index.html
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Low-Resource Int’l Science Communities:
Proposed Approach• Identify formal and informal centers of excellence in key domain
sciences and stimulate CI-enabled research and education collaboration
• Extend existing activities to enhance international opportunities for young researchers and students to include focus on opportunities for capacity building, R&E collaboration and technology development in/for low-resource environments
• Supplement support for development of tools, infrastructure, and CI resources (e.g. federated data archives) that would provide CI capabilities and/or functionality to low-resource environments
• Engage external support and partnerships to leverage NSF investments to provide connectivity to developing and other low-resource countries
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Low-Resource Int’l Science Communities:Proposed Implementation Strategy
• Identify priorities for development of core infrastructure, including networks and federated data archives and seek to leverage funding to complement CISE-funding of international networking
• Assess currently available open-source technologies and tools
• Create technology roadmaps to include tools for low-resource environments
• Educate, train and develop communities of users of prototype knowledge environments for use in international collaborations
• Develop research for creating new IT tools and resources for low-resource environments
• Enable multidisciplinary research on the dynamics of CI-enabled international science, engineering, and education collaborations in low-resource environments
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What Next?
• Reality Check – realistic, effective, feasible?
• Engage the community: needs/demand assessment based on collaborative R&E opportunities; tech asssessment and roadmap
• Engage key collaborative/outreach linkages– Internal NSF– Relevant US government agencies– International organizations (multi- and bilateral)– Foundations– International S&E community