INTEROP: Building Information Sharing Networks to Support Consumer Choice ( I-Choose)

INTEROP：构建信息共享网络以支持消费者选择（I-Choose）

• 批准号: 0955935
• 负责人: Theresa Pardo
• 金额: $ 71万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Albany
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0955935&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: INTEROP; Building; Information; Sharing; Networks

Award: 0955935PI: Theresa A. PardoTitle: INTEROP: Building Information Sharing Networks to Support Consumer Choice (I-Choose)Most products consumed within the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) are produced and distributed through low cost supply chains that typically do not reveal certain types of information to end consumers. Without this information it is difficult for consumers to assess the quality of the products they buy or exercise their preferences for safe, environmentally sustainable, and economically just products and services. Producers also have much less of an incentive to provide such goods without an effective, trustworthy way to inform consumers. In order to provide full information about how, when, and by whom manufactured goods were produced, the producers, supply chain operators, and third party certifiers will need to agree on a data architecture that can facilitate exchange and sharing of information that comes from production systems, supply chain distribution systems, and systems used to determine compliance with voluntary and government-mandated product standards. This project will create I-Choose; a data interoperability framework to support the provision of a wide range of information about how, where, and by whom commodities are manufactured and brought to market. This includes information about ?green? supply chains, production methods, wages paid to producers or workers in the supply chain, working conditions, environmental impact, and a wide range of other information about the products can be delivered to consumers. A data architecture designed to enable interoperability will be generated through a multi-stage iterative process of sequential consensus building activities. These activities will include the stakeholders involved in Mexican coffee production for distribution in Canada and the US, along with researchers from the fields of information science, computer science, economics, and political science. We will explore interoperability with three types of specific information systems: (1) Those designed and maintained by government regulators, (2) Those designed and maintained by consumer advocates using social networking technologies, and (3) proprietary data systems from individual firms in the producer, supply chain, or retail systems. The I-Choose data interoperability network will be unprecedented in nature as it will involve consumers, producers, government regulatory agencies and supply chain/distribution across multiple domains and countries. It will allow more information into market transactions allowing consumers more informed decision-making that maximize their specific utility preferences and align the strategies of these stakeholder groups through market mechanisms rather than through cumbersome regulation. These diverse stakeholders will collaborate to create a series of technical products of the increasing granularity and specificity (ontology, taxonomy, data architecture) necessary for supporting interoperability while gradually expanding their network. The result of this process will be a fully-formed research and practice network and a high quality set of deliverables produced through the consensus of all relevant stakeholder groups, thus ensuring maximum interoperability of information systems. The knowledge gained through constructing and expanding I-Choose will inform a wide range of future collaborations in terms of how to create a trusted environment where incentives for collaboration and competition are complementary, not mutually exclusive. The study is relevant for a wide range of actors who are already experimenting with new forms of collaboration such as labor, environment, and agriculture departments and agencies in the NAFTA region, interested legislators, businesses, trade unions, environmental NGOs, consumer groups, and agricultural associations.

奖项： 0955935 PI： 特蕾莎·A PardoTitle： INTEROP：建立信息共享网络以支持消费者选择（I-Choose）北美自由贸易区（NAFTA）内消费的大多数产品都是通过低成本供应链生产和分销的，这些供应链通常不会向最终消费者透露某些类型的信息。如果没有这些信息，消费者就难以评估他们购买的产品的质量，或行使他们对安全、环境可持续和经济公正的产品和服务的偏好。如果没有一种有效、可信的方式告知消费者，生产者提供此类商品的动力也会大大减少。为了提供关于制成品如何、何时以及由谁生产的完整信息，生产商、供应链运营商和第三方认证机构需要商定一个数据架构，以促进来自生产系统、供应链分销系统以及用于确定自愿和政府强制产品标准遵守情况的系统的信息的交换和共享。该项目将创建I-Choose;这是一个数据互操作性框架，支持提供关于商品如何、在何处以及由谁制造和推向市场的广泛信息。这包括关于？绿色？供应链、生产方法、支付给供应链中生产者或工人的工资、工作条件、环境影响以及关于产品的广泛的其他信息都可以提供给消费者。一个旨在实现互操作性的数据架构将通过一个多阶段的连续共识建设活动的迭代过程产生。这些活动将包括参与墨西哥咖啡生产并在加拿大和美国分销的利益相关者，沿着来自信息科学，计算机科学，经济学和政治学领域的研究人员。我们将探索与三种类型的特定信息系统的互操作性：（1）由政府监管机构设计和维护的系统;（2）由消费者权益倡导者使用社交网络技术设计和维护的系统;（3）来自生产商、供应链或零售系统中各个公司的专有数据系统。 I-Choose数据互操作性网络将是前所未有的，因为它将涉及多个领域和国家的消费者、生产者、政府监管机构和供应链/分销。它将使更多的信息进入市场交易，使消费者能够作出更知情的决策，最大限度地提高他们的具体效用偏好，并通过市场机制而不是通过繁琐的监管来调整这些利益攸关方群体的战略。这些不同的利益相关者将合作创建一系列技术产品，这些产品的粒度和特异性（本体论、分类法、数据架构）不断增加，这是支持互操作性所必需的，同时逐步扩大其网络。这一进程的结果将是一个完整的研究和实践网络，并通过所有相关利益攸关方群体的共识产生一套高质量的可交付成果，从而确保信息系统的最大互操作性。通过构建和扩展I-Choose所获得的知识将为未来的广泛合作提供信息，帮助他们创造一个值得信赖的环境，在这个环境中，合作和竞争的激励是互补的，而不是相互排斥的。这项研究是相关的广泛的演员谁已经在试验新的合作形式，如劳动，环境和农业部门和机构在北美自由贸易区，感兴趣的立法者，企业，工会，环境非政府组织，消费者团体和农业协会。