CDI-Type II: Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure (OSD-CI)

该奖项由2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助。网络支持的发现和创新(CDI)提案编号：0941565PI：Tracy Kijeski-Correa机构：圣母大学标题：CDI-Type II：开放资源民用基础设施设计(OSD-CI)在这个项目中，有人提议成立一个虚拟组织(VO)，允许所有利益相关者工程师、公职人员、研究人员、学生，甚至一般公众以“民用工程师”的身份参与，以修复我们国家日益恶化的民用基础设施。为此，该奖项将涉及合作的四个方面：利用人的努力、利用集体知识、共享公共软件和利用分布式计算硬件。Linux和维基百科证明，组织松散的团队可以创建和维护社会日益依赖的复杂的技术和智力基础设施。这些项目的成功不是因为不分青红皂白地接纳参与者，而是通过创建一种奖励专业知识的精英制度，而不是奖励其来源。OSD-CI被设计为一种方式，使基本公共工程项目可以类似地受益于更广泛的工程界可用的全面专业知识和最新进展。VO将在一个集成的网络基础设施中使用一个档案设计库、一个社交网络和一个工具库。调查人员预计，将出现新的发现、教育和工程创新，以前所未有的方式应对民用基础设施面临的挑战。此外，该项目产生的政策预计将为群众解决问题定义一个新的任务复杂性水平，从而为需要极端可信性和开放性的虚拟组织的设计和有效性提供一个新的发现、见解和理论的平台。通过利用OSD-CI解决民用基础设施面临的挑战，依赖于这一基础设施的社会将直接受益。此外，OSD-CI合作实验室的社会结构为广大公众参与研究和设计企业提供了一个新的范例。它将为“土木工程师”之间的协作和联网提供新的手段。此外，它还将帮助世界各地的学生，特别是那些在发展中地区没有机会在当地获得这种机会的学生的教育和指导。最终，OSD-CI被设想成为一个虚拟的市政厅，公众成员在这里与决策者、工程师、建筑师和规划者互动，为直接影响他们和他们的社区的进程做出贡献。一旦确立了先例，这些开放源码公共概念就可以扩展到其他领域，作为有效利用虚拟组织应对社会挑战的基本框架和模式。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)Proposal Number: 0941565PI: Tracy Kijewski-CorreaInstitution: University of Notre DameTitle: CDI-Type II: Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure (OSD-CI)In this project, a virtual organization (VO) is proposed that would allowing all stakeholders engineers, public officials, researchers, students, and even the public at-large to engage as "Citizen Engineers" to rehabilitate our nations deteriorating civil infrastructure. To this end, the award will address four dimensions of collaboration: harnessing human effort, tapping collective knowledge, pooling communal software and leveraging distributed computational hardware. Linux and Wikipedia serve as evidence that loosely organized teams can create and maintain the complex technical and intellectual infrastructure upon which society increasingly depends. These projects have succeeded not by accepting participants indiscriminately, but by creating a meritocracy that rewards expertise regardless of its source. OSD-CI is devised as a way that essential public-works projects could benefit similarly from the full expertise and latest advances available in the wider engineering community. The VO will use an archival Design Gallery, a Social Network, and a Tool Repository within an integrated cyberinfrastructure. The investigators expect that new types of discovery, education and engineering innovation will emerge to address the challenges facing civil infrastructure in an unprecedented fashion. Furthermore, the policies that result from this project are expected to define a new level of task complexity for problem-solving by crowds, thus providing a platform for new discoveries, insights and theories on the design and effectiveness of VOs that require extreme trustworthiness and openness.By addressing challenges facing civil infrastructure with OSD-CI, there will be direct benefits to society reliant on this infrastructure. Furthermore, the social fabric of the OSD-CI Collaboratory provides a new paradigm for engaging the public at large in the research and design enterprise. It will offering new means of collaboration and networking among "Citizen Engineers." In addition, it will also aid education and mentoring of students worldwide, particularly those in developing areas lacking access to such opportunities locally. Eventually, OSD-CI is envisioned to become a virtual Town Hall where members of the public interface with decision makers, engineers, architects and planners to contribute to processes directly impacting them and their communities. Once the precedent is set, these open-source communal concepts could be extended to other fields as a basic framework and model for the effective use of VOs for addressing societal challenges.