Workshops

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The workshop will explore the framework and logistical/technical issues associated with developing a nongovernmental platform, currently called PEGASCIS, the Platform for Enhancing Global Academic Strategic Collaboration in Science, to help universities find strategic international partners in science, technology and innovation (STI). The State Department is participating to catalyze platform development that adds strong international components to many ongoing data efforts. This would include expanding institutional profiles beyond research to include data on international engagement, cultural and language collaborations, joint teaching, research and centers, as well as student, faculty, and alumni international associations. Such a platform would make information on U.S. academic institutions easily available to foreign institutions seeking to partner. The platform should be developed to be compatible with and adoptable by many nations, including developing countries, thus enabling U.S. institutions to find appropriate foreign partners. In addition to adding matchmaking power, the platform will enhance understanding global trends in international STI and provide contextual material on best practices in international partnerships, country profiles, and STI foresight.

Workshop objectives include:

• Establishing functionality needs for institutional‐level STI partnerships – from users, developers;
• Exploring status of existing datasets, platforms, visualization and mining tools;
• Developing ways to leverage existing efforts, especially for international platform components;
• Determining roles of different stakeholders in advancing platform development; and
• Developing a consensus on next steps in development of platform.

The workshop outputs will inform a small PEGASCIS Scoping Meeting planned for July 2014 for high‐level
leaders from universities, foundations, industry, government, and science NGOs to discuss possible
trajectories for platform development.

Schedule:

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

12:00pm	Organizers’ Welcome and Setting the Stage Katy Börner, Indiana University Elizabeth (Libby) Lyons, Department of State
12:20pm	Introduction by Participants (5 min per person/organization)
2:15pm	Break
2:45pm	Overview Talks Platform Attributes, Data for Institutional Profiles Libby Lyons, Department of State UCOSMIC Sally Crimmins Villela, UCosmic, SUNY Federated‐Searches—Integrating Across Datasets Griffin Weber, Harvard University & David Eichmann, University of Iowa Making Sense of Data Katy Börner, Indiana University
3:45pm	Discussion of Opportunities and Challenges
5:30pm	Adjourn
6:30pm	Joint dinner, TBD

Thursday, May 15, 2014

8:30am	Coffee, Tea, Refreshments
9:00am	Breakout Sessions (pick one) What functionality/decision‐making should the platform support? (Libby leads) Desirable hardware‐software features, alignment with foreign efforts (Katy leads)
10:30am	Breakout Session Reports
11:00am	Second Best Ideas
12:00pm	Joint Lunch
1:00pm	Breakout Sessions (pick one) Overcoming barriers to adoption, metrics to demonstrate value of platform Integrating other information – e.g., best practices, foresight, country profiles
2:00pm	Breakout Session Reports
2:30pm	Break
3:00pm	Breakout Sessions (both groups address same topics) Scenarios for scope of inclusion, activities, timeframe, costs, feasibility Role of different stakeholders, next steps
4:00pm	Breakout Session Reports and Collaboration and Funding Opportunities
5:00pm	Adjourn

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