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

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。网络发现与创新（CDI）提案编号：0941565PI: Tracy kijewski - correinstitute: University of Notre dame标题：CDI- type - II：开源民用基础设施设计（OSD-CI）在该项目中，提出了一个虚拟组织（VO），允许所有利益相关者工程师、政府官员、研究人员、学生甚至广大公众作为“公民工程师”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：利用人力、利用集体知识、汇集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技术和智力基础设施。这些项目的成功并不是通过不分青红皂白地接受参与者，而是通过创造一种奖励专业知识的精英制度，而不管其来源如何。OSD-CI被设计成一种重要的公共工程项目同样可以从更广泛的工程界的全部专业知识和最新进展中受益的方式。VO将在集成的网络基础设施中使用档案设计画廊、社交网络和工具存储库。研究人员预计，新型的发现、教育和工程创新将以前所未有的方式出现，以解决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体解决问题的任务复杂性定义一个新的水平，从而为需要高度可信度和开放性的VOs设计和有效性的新发现、见解和理论提供一个平台。通过使用OSD-CI解决民用基础设施面临的挑战，将为依赖这些基础设施的社会带来直接利益。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。它将在“公民工程师”之间提供新的协作和网络方式。此外，它还将帮助教育和指导世界各地的学生，特别是那些在发展中地区无法获得当地这种机会的学生。最终，OSD-CI被设想成为一个虚拟的市政厅，在这里，公众成员与决策者、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过程做出贡献。一旦有了先例，这些开源的公共概念就可以作为有效利用开源软件解决社会挑战的基本框架和模型，扩展到其他领域。

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.