Past and Upcoming Collaborative Expedition Workshops (40RO)
Collaborative Expedition Workshop #79, December 17, 2008, at NSF (40RP)
Title: The Science of Science Policy (40RQ)
- How to RSVP, Workshop Location/ Directions, and Remote Teleconferencing (40RR)
- Draft Workshop Purpose (40RS)
- Draft Workshop Questions (40RT)
- Draft Agenda (40RU)
- Workshop Series Background (40RV)
- Draft Resources (40RW)
A. Draft Workshop Purpose (40RX)
This workshop provides an opportunity for participants to explore conditions conducive to emergence of a mature, 21st century approach to science and innovation policy. This workshop follows-on from a December 11, 2007 Expedition workshop on this topic and builds on the Science of Science Policy Workshop held on December 3-4, 2008. The Dec. 3-4 workshop was sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) to open up dialogue around the November 2008 document developed by the Interagency Task Group of SBE on "The Science of Science Policy: A Federal Research Roadmap". This document serves as a first step toward systematically addressing the need for better scientific theories and analytical tools for improving our understanding of the efficacy and impact of science and technology policy decisions. An Interagency Task Group (ITG) commissioned by the National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Subcommittee on Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) prepared the roadmap. (40VA)
A primary goal of the December 17 public workshop on the Science of Science Policy (SoSP) workshop will also be to open up dialogue and receive feedback around the SoSP Roadmap. Ten important questions for this workshop: (40VX)
Theme 1: Understanding Science and Innovation (40VY)
- 1. What are the behavioral foundations of innovation? (40VZ)
- 2. What explains technology development, adoption and diffusion? (40W0)
- 3. How and why do communities of science and innovation form and evolve? (40W1)
Theme 2: Investing in Science and Innovation (40W2)
- 4. What is the value of the nation's public investment in science? (40W3)
- 5. Is it possible to "predict discovery"? (40W4)
- 6. Is it possible to describe the impact of discovery on innovation? (40W5)
- 7. What are the determinants of investment effectiveness? (40W6)
Theme 3: Using the Science of Science Policy to Address National Priorities (40W7)
- 8. What impact does science have on innovation and competitiveness? (40W8)
- 9. How competitive is the U.S. scientific workforce? (40W9)
- 10. What is the relative importance of different policy instruments in science policy? (40WA)
In addition, this workshop will demonstrate an organizing process that can be employed anytime a purpose cuts across organizational boundaries. This is timely for workshop participants who have come to appreciate that building trusted relationships is the essence of eGovernment. How people design the organizing process for potentially “collaborative” settings, existing beyond traditional boundaries, can spell the difference between “multiplicative power” and “no power” arising to achieve high performance results that matter to all. (40RZ)
It is likely that how we design our physical and virtual knowledge sharing environments (including scientific knowledge that will influence policy-making and innovation) will play a pivotal role in the continued vitality and creativity of our 21st century democracy. The workshop will open up dialogue to facilitate "bootstrapping" among multiple communities and institutions committed to advancing civic design in the public realm and leveraging engagement opportunities associated iwth Web 2.0. The workshop also supports information exchange among Federal Enterprise Architecture improvement activities advancing citizen-centric government including Architecture Principles for The US Government (issued by CIO Council, effective date Aug. 24, 2007). (40S7)
The President's Management Agenda (PMA) requires all federal agencies to transform the roles and relationships among people, processes, and technology in order to become a citizen-centered government. The PMA emphasizes bringing value and results to citizens, businesses, and government workers by "reducing the burden" and producing measurable improvement. (40S1)
As Communities of Practice form around priorities it is essential to gain experience in designing an organizing process to advance the human relationships that “power” the ultimate success of these endeavors. As Professor David D. Woods states, “In design, we either hobble or support people’s natural ability to express forms of expertise.” Experience gained from the design of this workshop will influence how we design future forums. Individually and as a community, we’ll be better able to appreciate and tap strategic leadership from a wide variety of sources, including local, state and regional settings where quality dialogue yields the “line of sight” connection needed by all stakeholders to engage in joint action toward shared goals. (40S2)
"It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human culture, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow." Werner Heisenberg (40S3)
"Creativity is a process that can be observed only at the intersection where individuals, domains, and fields intersect." Csikszentmihalyi, 1999 (40S4)
"Information is the currency of democracy." Thomas Jefferson (40S6)
Workshop planning provides an opportunity to experience shared stewardship around broad mission goals that include: (40S8)
- To be of service, in cross-boundary settings, not only to the region, but to the nation (40S9)
- To contribute to successful innovation toward citizen-centric government (40SA)
- To learn by doing, to put into practice the results of our own dialogue (40SB)
- To experience the kind of complex, multidimensional organizational situation that is providing the background for strategic leadership (40SC)
B. Draft Workshop Questions (40SD)
- 1. What are the Public Good aspects of Scientific Organizing, Knowledge Diffusion, and Innovation currently being advanced in the Public Realm? (40SE)
- 2. What institutions and organizations have a shared mission for improved science and innovation policy as reflected in their strategic plans?''' (40SF)
- 3. What are the current and future contributions of light-weight aggregator tools for advancing discovery, shared understanding, and organizing that scales across individuals, communities of practice, and institutions? Examples in use by this workshop community include: wiki namesake pages,Emerging Technology Life-cycle process and Strategy Markup Language (StratML) (40SH)
- 4. How can relevant science policy and innovation stakeholders tap "build to share" principles being advanced by forward-looking information stewardship organizations, including: (40SI)
- a) Digital data and information communities advancing sound approaches for electronically stored information. Examples include librarians, curators, web content managers, ontologists, researchers, artists, historians, data managers, and records managers. (40SJ)
- b) Open Standards bodies and consortia (40SK)
- c) Universities and university consortia (40SL)
- d) International stewardship associations (40SM)
- e) Virtual organizations (40SN)
- 5. How do we create simulations that help us strategize and act effectively during rapid change – including the need for rapid discernment (moral and ethical implications) by people representing multiple disciplines with multiple "scientific languages? (40SO)
- 6. What strategies are emerging to advance the public's awareness and participation in science, global virtual collections, and scholarly knowledge infrastructures? (40SP)
- 7. How do we build from the best of past scientific research and also draw upon generational differences and cyberinfrastructure opportunities in a manner that reinforces strengths? (40SQ)
- 8. What are the emerging strategies for advancing public web content, collections management, and scholarly knowledge infrastructures with the resilience to mitigate disruptions or degradations of service over time? (40SR)
- 9. How do we provide the right sets of information flowing into and out of science-based, mission-rehearsal simulations, etc. so the policy nuggets travel up even when the learning is experiential? (40SS)
- 10. What common messages for advancing scientific advances are resonant across communities with in-depth and diverse experience with distributed collaboration, collections development, and scholarly knowledge infrastructure? (40ST)
- 11. What are the conducive conditions for the creativity and governance needed among networked scientific and scholarly communities so results and implications flow in a timely manner into science and innovation policy channels? (40SU)
C. DRAFT Agenda (40SW)
9:00 a.m. - Welcome and Introductions . [ slides ] . [ audio ] (40SX)
SusanTurnbull, GSA and Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee and Co-Chair, Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT CG (40SY)
Julia Lane, NSF and Bill Valdez, DOE, Co-chairs, Interagency Task Group (40SZ)
SuziIacono, NSF, Co-Chair, Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT (40T0)
RichardSpivack, NIST and Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (40T1)
9:15 a.m. - Who is Here and Who is Missing? What is your Sense of Purpose in Relation to the Overall Workshop Goals? (40T2)
9:40 a.m. - Review of Federal Roadmap and Results of Dec. 3-4 Workshop . [ slides ] . [ audio ] (40T3)
Julia Lane, NSF, Program Director,Science of Science & Innovation Policy and Bill Valdez, DOE, Co-chairs, Interagency Task Group (40VV)
10:30 a.m. - Open Discussion and Preparation for Break-out Sessions around Four Themes (40T4)
10:45 a.m. - BREAK (40T5)
11:00 a.m. - Break-out Session One (40T6)
- /RemoteSession_SessionOne_2008_12_17 (40XQ)
- /ThemeOne_Understanding_Science_and_Innovation_SessionOne_2008_12_17 (40VG)
- /ThemeTwo_Investing_In_Science_And_Innovation_SessionOne_2008_12_17 (40VH)
- /ThemeThree_Using_The_Science_Of_Science_Policy_To_Address_National_Priorities_SessionOne_2008_12_17 (40VI)
- /ThemeFour_Identifying_Data_Needs_For_Implementing_SoSP_SessionOne_2008_12_17 (40VJ)
12:30 - 1:30 PM - Networking Lunch - on your own (40T7)
1:30 - 3:00 PM - Break-out Session Two (40T8)
- /RemoteSession_SessionTwo_2008_12_17 (40XR)
- /ThemeOne_Understanding_Science_and_Innovation_SessionTwo_2008_12_17 (40VK)
- /ThemeTwo_Investing_In_Science_And_Innovation_SessionTwo_2008_12_17 (40VL)
- /ThemeThree_Using_The_Science_Of_Science_Policy_To_Address_National_Priorities_SessionTwo_2008_12_17 (40VM)
- /ThemeFour_Identifying_Data_Needs_For_Implementing_SoSP_SessionTwo_2008_12_17 (40VN)
3:00 - 3:30 PM - Report-out and Commitment to Action and Reflection: How Could Shared Missions and Cross-Boundary Goals of Agencies and Institutions focusing on Science, Technology, and Innovation policy be collaboratively advanced in 2009? (40T9)
3:30 PM - Adjourn (40VO)
E. Collaborative Expedition Workshop Series Background (40TA)
Purpose and Audience: GSA's USA Services Intergovernmental Solutions Office leads monthly Collaborative Expedition workshops to advance the quality of citizen-government dialogue and collaborations at the crossroads of intergovernmental initiatives, Communities of Practice, Federal IT research and IT user agencies. The workshops seek to advance collaborative innovations in government and community services such as emergency preparedness, environmental monitoring, healthcare and law enforcement. (40TB)
The workshops serve individuals from government, business, and non-government organizations to practice an emerging societal form, Communities of Practice (CoPs) or Communities of Interest (CoIs), that augment Government project teams, in a manner responsive to the Citizen-Centric Government goal of the President’s Management Agenda and the Public Information Access provisions of the E-government Act of 2002. (40TC)
Each workshop organizes participation around a common purpose, larger than any institution, including government. By learning how to appreciate multiple perspectives around potentials and realities of this larger “purpose”, subsequent actions by individuals representing many forms of expertise, can be better expressed in their home and collaborative settings. By centering around people and the "whole system" challenges they organize around, IT design and development processes can mature with less risk and greater national yield of breakthrough performance. (40TD)
Joint workshop sponsors in addition to GSA, include the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the Federal CIO Council, and the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development Coordinating Group. These organizations value this “frontier outpost” to open up quality conversations, augmented by information technology, to leverage the collaborative capacity of united, but diverse sectors of society, seeking to discover, frame, and act on national and international potentials. (40TE)
E. Draft Resources (40TF)
1. Appreciation of Potentials / Tapping Creativity (40TG)
- NSF Science of Science Policy Solicitation (40WB)
- Dec. 3-4, 2008 Science of Science Policy Workshop Materials (40VW)
- Science of Science and Innovation Policy - A Prospectus, NSF, Directorate for Social, Economic and Behavioral Science, Sept. 6, 2007 (40TH)
- Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy Advisory Committee (40TI)
- Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information - accelerating diffusion of knowledge and scientific progress (40TJ)
- Toward a Science of Science Policy: a brief overview of Federal interagency activities, Irma Arispe, Ph.D., Office of Science and Technology Policy, February, 17, 2007 (40TK)
- Science Resources Statistics Data and the SciSIP Initiative, Linda Carlson, Dec. 11, 2007 (40TL)
- Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP): Potentials and Realities for Innovation in the Changing Global Environment, Kaye Husbands Fealing, Ph.D. (40TM)
- Kronberg Declaration of the Future of Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing, UNESCO High Level Group of Visionaries on Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing, Kronberg, Germany, 22-23 June, 2007 (40TN)
- Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century, National Science Foundation, Cyberinfrastructure Council, March 2007 (40TO)
- Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation Initiative, National Science Foundation, FY08 (40TP)
- Designing Cyberinfrastructure For Collaboration and Innovation, January 29-30, 2007, sponsored by Committee for Economic Development, Council on Competitiveness, National Science Foundation, Science Commons, University of Michigan (40TQ)
- International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (40TR)
- Balancing Practice-Centered Research and Design, David Woods and Klaus Christoffersen - see page 10 - The Engine of Innovation: Interlocking the Cycles of Research and Development) (40TS)
- CreativIT wiki: Developing the Synergies between Research in Creativity and Computer and Information Science and Engineering (40TT)
- Toward More Transparent Government, Workshop on e-Government and Web, June 18-19 (40TV)
- FEA Reference Model Mapping Guide (40TW)
- Report to the William and Floral Hewlett Foundation: A Review of the Open Educational Resources Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities, February 2007, Daniel E. Atkins, John Seely Brown, and Allen L. Hammond (40TX)
2. Tools / Approaches / Deployment (40TY)
- A Collaboration Wizard: A set of factors that lead to success with suggested remedies for deficiencies (40TZ)
- Developing and Using Standards for Data and Information in Science and Technology, John Rumble, Jr., Gail Hodge, and Laura Bartolo (40U0)
- Enterprise SPICE initative (40U1)
- http://ET.gov - social networking and the emergence of technology (40U2)
- Knowledge Sharing Innovations in the Natural Resources Community: a toolkit for community-based project teams, Center for Technology in Government, 2007 (40U3)
- National Building Information Model Standard (40U4)
- CENDI (40U5)
- WorldWideScience.org (40U6)
- Network Workbench (40U7)
- Cyberinfrastructure Shell (40U8)
- http://www.osgi.org (40U9)
- Science Commons (40UA)
- Science-specific search engine (40UB)
- Many Eyes (40UC)
- Swivel's mission is to make data useful (40UD)
- NIH Public Access Policy (40UE)
- Papers from Jan 29-30, 2007 conference on Designing Cyberinfrastructure for Collaboration and Innovation (40UF)
- The Public Domain of Digital Research Data (40UG)
- Croquet Consortium (40UH)
- Ontology Summit 2007 - a case studay in a virtual community's process and effort to research, develop and capture semantics and knowledge. (40UI)
- Balancing Practice-Centered Research and Design, David Woods and Klaus Christoffersen (See page 10 - The Engine of Innovation: Interlocking the Cycles of Research and Development) (40UJ)
- Information Sharing Environment Enterprise Architecture Framework, version 1.0, August 2007 (40UK)