SGER: Exploration of new Approaches to Sustainable Infrastructure for Information Sharing

应用程序服务提供商（asp）和通过开源软件（OSS）方法开发的软件的激增为非营利性、社区服务组织提供了巨大的潜力。OSS可以允许这些组织共享他们有限的软件开发资源，而asp可以允许他们开发和共享更可靠、更低成本和可持续的信息技术基础设施。两者结合在一起，为提高社区服务组织的效率提供了重要的协同作用。然而，由于小型非营利组织的财政和技术资源有限，可持续基础设施的障碍尤其严重。此外，为共享系统生成需求是困难的。PI和研究生将与底特律老年人社会服务机构进行初步的实地研究。这些机构正在考虑使用asp和OSS应用程序，并需要开发需求。除了这项研究可能对这些机构产生直接和实际的影响外，还将为社区服务组织的信息基础设施的需求生成开发新的、可推广的方法。

The proliferation of Application Service Providers (ASPs) and software developed through the Open Source Software (OSS) approach offer enormous potential to non-profit, community-serving organizations. OSS could allow these organizations to share their limited software development resources while ASPs could allow for more reliable, lower cost and sustainable information technology infrastructures to be developed and shared by them. Together, they offer important synergies in increasing the effectiveness of community-serving organizations. However, the barriers to sustainable infrastructure are particularly acute in smaller non-profit organizations due to their limited financial and technical resources. Further, generating the requirements for shared systems is difficult. The PI and graduate students will engage in preliminary field studies with agencies delivering social services to the elderly in Detroit. These agencies are considering the use of ASPs and OSS applications and need to develop requirements. Aside from the direct and practical impacts this research may have on those agencies, new, generalizable approaches will be developed for requirements generation for information infrastructures for community-serving organizations.