SGER: Multi-Lifespan Information System Research Initiative - The Information for an International Justice System

种族灭绝。艾滋病毒/艾滋病。饥荒。森林砍伐。栖息地的破坏。物种灭绝。《出埃及记》。这些问题有一些共性。它们以这样或那样的方式给人类、其他有情生物或自然界带来了广泛的损失；此外，从这些损失中恢复是不可能在一个人的生命周期内（如果有的话）的。此外，信息和围绕信息的过程可能对解决这些问题有很大贡献。那么如何通过信息系统设计来解决这类问题呢？信息系统存在哪些独特的机会？它们可能扮演什么角色？在一个以尖端创新而闻名的领域，超过五年的设备被视为遗产，人们如何开始考虑跨越可能超过一个人寿命的过程和解决方案？这个提议的技术和社会研究计划通过与重要的现实世界问题空间合作，开始概述信息系统可能的机会和角色，以帮助构建长期解决方案，从而应对多生命周期设计挑战。这个首个项目领域是联合国卢旺达问题国际刑事法庭（卢旺达问题国际法庭）的信息遗产。目标有两个：(1)为研究中的具体现实问题提供有意义的信息系统设计；(2)生成更多关于多寿命信息系统设计的一般知识。该SGER将资助一个研究小组和电影摄制组前往坦桑尼亚开展未来研讨会，并与卢旺达问题国际法庭人员进行大约20次背景访谈。时间紧迫。卢旺达问题国际法庭计划于2009年1月1日开始大幅精简。随着人们分散到全球寻找新的职业机会，关于定义和实施国际司法制度的大量知识将迅速消失。更广泛的影响。这是一个真正的多生命周期的信息系统设计工作。该项目将通过努力建立一个信息系统来解决独特的技术和社会挑战，该信息系统将满足通过多种信息工具访问该系统的国际受众的需要。建立一个适应性强的基础设施，在未来一百多年里保护和管理卢旺达问题国际法庭的信息遗产，并应对隐私、获取和安全方面的困难挑战，将与其他国际法庭高度相关。

Genocide. HIV/AIDS. Famine. Deforestation. Habitat destruction. Species extinction. Forced exodus. These problems share some commonalities. In one way or another, they entail widespread losses to human beings, to other sentient beings, or to the natural world; moreover, recovery from those losses is not likely within the time frame of a single human lifespan (if ever). It is also the case that information and the processes around information may have much to contribute to the solutions of these problems. How then might this class of problems be addressed through information system design? What unique opportunities exist for information systems and what roles might they play? In a field known for cutting edge innovation, where devices over five years old are regarded as legacy, how does one begin to consider processes and solutions that span periods that likely extend beyond a single human lifespan? This proposed technical and social research initiative takes up the multi-lifespan design challenge by working with significant real world problem spaces to begin outlining possible opportunities and roles for information systems to help construct longer-term solutions. This inaugural project area is the information heritage of the United Nation's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The goals are twofold: (1) to contribute meaningful information system designs to the specific real world problems under study; and (2) to generate more general knowledge about the design of multi-lifespan information systems. This SGER will fund one research team and film crew to travel to Tanzania to conduct Futures Workshops and roughly 20 contextual interviews with ICTR personnel. This is time critical. As of January 1, 2009 the ICTR is scheduled to initiate a radical downsizing. The vast amount of knowledge in defining and implementing an international justice system will quickly dissolve as individuals scatter globally to find new career opportunities.Broader impact. This is truly a multi-lifespan information system design effort. The project will address unique technical and social challenges through its efforts to create an information system that serves the needs of an international audience who access the system through a multiplicity of information tools. An adaptable infrastructure that preserves and manages the ICTR's information heritage for the next one hundred plus years and addresses the difficult challenges of privacy, access, and security will be highly relevant to other international tribunals.