IRNC: ENgage: Building Network Expertise and Capacity for International Science Collaboration

网络启动资源中心（NSRC）在世界上研究和教育网络连接不足对与美国科学家和教育工作者的合作构成重大障碍的地区开发网络通信基础设施和当地工程能力。通过帮助建立和改进底层网络基础设施，包括物理（网络连接）和人力（技术能力），NSRC通过帮助孵化和建设可持续的互联网基础设施来实现国际科学研究，在美国科学界发挥了有效的作用。NSRC的活动在全球范围内产生更广泛的影响。NSRC专注于网络设计和操作的教学和培训，并与技术支持的国际同事相结合，在世界上许多国家建立了稳定的计算机网络，由当地人管理。NSRC通过有针对性的能力建设活动以及与非洲、亚太、中东、拉丁美洲-加勒比和北美的大学、互联网服务提供商、行业、政府和超国家机构的合作伙伴关系来实现这一目标。nssrc体现了NSF“鼓励跨组织、跨学科、跨部门、跨国界的合作研究和教育”的战略目标。通过协调的培训项目，NSRC建立了支持研究界的机构能力，并利用美国的研究基础设施为国际研究人员和教育工作者带来价值。通过动手实践，以实验室为基础的课程和培训培训师的方法，NSRC为数百家研发机构的数千名网络工程师提供技术能力发展，以增强NSF和国际研究网络连接（IRNC）社区感兴趣的地区的网络专业知识。

The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) develops network communications infrastructure and local engineering capacity in areas of the world where inadequate research and education network connectivity poses a significant barrier to collaborations with US scientists and educators. By helping to establish and improve underlying cyberinfrastructure, both physical (network connectivity) and human (technical capacity), NSRC plays an effective role for the US science community by helping to incubate and build sustainable Internet infrastructure to enable international scientific research. The broader impacts of NSRC's activities are global in scope. NSRC's focus on teaching and training about network design and operations, combined with technically supporting international colleagues, results in the development of stable computer networks, managed by local hands, in many countries all over the world. NSRC achieves this through targeted capacity building activities and partnerships with universities, Internet service providers, industry, government and supranational agencies in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America-Caribbean, and North America. NSRC exemplifies the NSF's stated strategic goal of "encouraging collaborative research and education across organizations, disciplines, sectors, and international boundaries." Through coordinated training programs, NSRC builds institutional capacity to support the research community, and leverages US research infrastructure to bring value to international researchers and educators. Through hands-on, lab-based curricula and a train-the-trainers approach, NSRC provides technical capacity development to thousands of network engineers working in hundreds of R&E institutions to augment networking expertise in regions of interest to NSF and the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) community.