SGER: Exploration of new Approaches to Sustainable Infrastructure for Information Sharing

应用服务提供商和通过开放源码软件方法开发的软件的激增为非营利社区服务组织提供了巨大的潜力。开放源码软件可使这些组织分享其有限的软件开发资源，而ASP可使它们开发和分享更可靠、成本更低和可持续的信息技术基础设施。它们共同发挥重要的协同作用，提高社区服务组织的效力。然而，在较小的非营利组织中，由于其有限的财政和技术资源，可持续基础设施的障碍尤其严重。此外，生成共享系统的需求是困难的。PI和研究生将与底特律为老年人提供社会服务的机构进行初步的实地研究。这些机构正在考虑使用ASP和OSS应用程序，并需要制定要求。除了直接和实际的影响，这项研究可能对这些机构，新的，可推广的方法将开发的需求生成信息基础设施的社区服务组织。

The proliferation of Application Service Providers (ASPs) and software developed through the Open Source Software (OSS) approach offer enormous potential to non-profit, community-serving organizations. OSS could allow these organizations to share their limited software development resources while ASPs could allow for more reliable, lower cost and sustainable information technology infrastructures to be developed and shared by them. Together, they offer important synergies in increasing the effectiveness of community-serving organizations. However, the barriers to sustainable infrastructure are particularly acute in smaller non-profit organizations due to their limited financial and technical resources. Further, generating the requirements for shared systems is difficult. The PI and graduate students will engage in preliminary field studies with agencies delivering social services to the elderly in Detroit. These agencies are considering the use of ASPs and OSS applications and need to develop requirements. Aside from the direct and practical impacts this research may have on those agencies, new, generalizable approaches will be developed for requirements generation for information infrastructures for community-serving organizations.