AAAS Summit - Making the Net Work
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Research Competitiveness Program (RCP) presents:
What: This one-and-a-half-day workshop
was designed to give presidents of universities and colleges in the EPSCoR states
an opportunity to provide guidance to national policy makers concerned with
developing the information infrastructure to support higher education in the
twenty-first century. It also provided information needed to make wise decisions
in leading your institution into the twenty-first century.
Who: The policy summit brought together presidents of major universities
and selected colleges in those states which participate in the National Science
Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).
They met with representatives of institutions which manage the development of
the emerging information infrastructure which will support universities in the
twenty-first century. Those organizations include: the National Science Foundation,
the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Presidential Advisory
Committee on the Next Generation Internet, the University Corporation for Advanced
Internet Development, and the U.S. Congress.
Why: Universities and Colleges in the nineteen EPSCoR states have a
different mix of needs and perspectives from those of the larger, more elite
institutions which often frame the policy agenda. As a group, the EPSCoR states
are more rural, their populations more dispersed, and their research capabilities
less developed than the other states. Their economies are in need of science
and technology-based development, but the business environment is often quite
different from more developed states. Many of these needs can be positively
addressed by new information technologies, if new knowledge and sufficient resources
are made available to those ends. The purpose of this conference was to provide
a forum for a dialogue between the presidents of EPSCoR institutions and national
policy makers in this arena.
How: The program included presentations which relate the future of networking
to the academic missions of teaching, research, and outreach and extension,
followed by a discussion of cross-cutting policy issues. A working session then
developed critical issues and priorities in the form of policy
guidelines to the participating representatives of federal agencies.
Questions? Please contact the AAAS Research Competitiveness Program by phone at (202)326-6600,
by fax at (202)289-4950 or by email at rcp@aaas.org.
Workshop participants contributed to the development of policy guidelines
enclosed in the workshop report.
Joe Mambretti - International
Center for Advanced Internet Research
Len Peters - Virginia Tech
Janet
Poley - ADEC
James H. Ryan
- Penn State University
The National Coordinating Office for Computing,
Information and Communications
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