DCL: NSF INCLUDES The Technical and Human Infrastructure to Support Collective Impact of the INCLUDES Program at the Alliance and Network Levels

随着NSF INCLUDES计划寻求从启动试点扩展到完整计划，通过扩大参与来实现其促进科学进步的目标将依赖于成功扩展技术和人力基础设施的能力，以便在小型骨干和国家骨干之间进行合作。美国科学促进会（AAAS）正在为NSF INCLUDES基础设施会议寻求支持，该会议将提供一个论坛，讨论当前和长期的技术和人类基础设施规模需求。技术基础设施可以指任何通信、社区建设和协作工具（如文档共享或存储）提供的功能。人力基础设施可能指的是数据分析师或社区管理人员。会议将包括讨论结构和流程，以在所有级别和所有群体中创建一个共享的、总体的变革愿景，这些愿景将需要促进INCLUDES中设想的人才发展目标，支持当前的设计和开发启动试点，并支持扩展和促进可持续性的条件。基于对教育中的集体影响和改进科学的研究，我们将在工作会议的设置中提供演示，然后进行结构化的对话。AAAS在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的多样性和包容性目标与INCLUDES的目标非常一致；因此，美国科学促进会建议提供其现有的在线平台Trellis，以支持这一综合倡议，从我们社会的各个部门和群体中培养STEM人才。会议活动的目标是：(1)确定能够支持试点的短期和长期通信和网络需求；(2)概述支持试点所需的技术规格和人力资源；(3)设想支持联盟所需的技术、资源和人力需求；(4)制定联盟内部和跨联盟网络的设计规范，以支持技术援助、资源识别和管理、支持实践社区和吸取经验教训；(5)为NSF INCLUDES国家网络骨干网提出工具、技术、能力和功能。

As the NSF INCLUDES Program seeks to scale from the Launch Pilots to the full program, achieving its goals to promote the progress of science by broadening participation will rely on the ability to successfully scale the technical and human infrastructure for collaboration across the mini-backbones and the national backbone. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is seeking support for an NSF INCLUDES infrastructure conference that will provide a forum for discussion about current and long term technical and human infrastructure needs for scaling. Technical infrastructure might refer to the functions provided by any communication, community building and collaboration tool, such as document sharing or storage. Human infrastructure might refer to data analysts or community managers. The conference would include discussion of the structures and processes for creating a shared, overarching vision of the changes at all levels and for all groups that would be needed to promote the talent development goals envisioned within INCLUDES, supporting the current design and development launch pilots, and supporting scaling and promoting conditions for sustainability. Based on research on collective impact and improvement science in education, we would offer presentations followed by structured conversations within the setting of working sessions. The goals of AAAS for diversity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are very much in keeping with the goals of INCLUDES; thus AAAS proposes to offer its existing online platform, Trellis, to support this comprehensive initiative to develop STEM talent from all sectors and groups in our society. The goals of the conference activity are to: (1) define short term and long term communications and networking needs that can support the pilots; (2) outline the technical specifications and human resources needed to support the pilots; (3) envision the technical, resource and human needs required to support Alliances; (4) develop design specifications for intra- and cross Alliance networking to support technical assistance, identification and curation of resources, support for communities of practice and capture of lessons learned and (5) propose tools, techniques, capacities and functionalities for an NSF INCLUDES National Network Backbone.