US-Turkey: Plannning Visit for Research on Interagency Coordination in International Science and Engineering Research: Implications for Policy Formation & Scientific Collaborat

05059998 McMullen本提案旨在支持印第安纳州布卢明顿印第安纳大学普及技术实验室的Donald F. McMullen博士和Michael a. Evans博士的计划访问。他们寻求在美国和土耳其之间建立一个国际研究网络，以研究不同国家的相应研究机构如何协调建立研究重点和项目。他们计划建立一个核心的美国-土耳其研究小组，在安卡拉的土耳其政府科学机构TUBITAK进行初步研究，计划他们的合作者在那里进行互惠访问，并为“电子政府”在协助协调国际科学研究中的作用的国际研讨会奠定基础。外国合作者是：中东技术大学计算机教育和教学技术系的Kurat Cayltay博士和Hacettepe大学公共行政系的Mete Yildiz博士，他们都在土耳其安卡拉。智力价值-研究议程是独一无二的。在很大程度上，电子政务研究只关注公民与政府服务和流程的互动，而不是政府机构之间的互动。目前还没有关于不同国家类似机构在科学发现服务中相互作用的研究报告。了解具有类似任务的机构之间协调所需要的知识，以及了解在何种程度上可以将满足这些需要纳入一个信息系统，将是对本领域有益的补充。作为最初的方法，pi计划检查NSF和TUBITAK之间的相互作用。土耳其被选为第一个参与的国际合作伙伴有四个原因：1)土耳其学生在美国留学的外国学生数量排名前十，因此是“人才流失”的一大来源；2)土耳其在中东发挥着重要作用，是俄罗斯联邦中亚各共和国与欧洲之间的桥梁；3)土耳其在许多方面被视为该地区邻国的榜样，包括不断发展的市场经济、民主和教育；4)土耳其正在积极组织政府、工业和学术界进行科学和工程研究。更广泛的影响——该项目的主要好处将是发展一个研究网络，以调查美国和土耳其（可能还有其他中东）研究人员在国际科学合作中的机构间协调和知识发现。预期的好处如下：1)美国和土耳其（可能还有感兴趣的中东国家）之间将建立一个研究人员网络，调查国际机构间协调和科学合作；2)将启动一项长期研究议程，研究美国和中东之间电子政务倡议的可能性和后果。3)识别抑制或促进协调与合作的显著变量将被识别和调查。（四）提出政策调整建议，促进各国协调合作。5)将得出社会技术系统执行政策变化和促进未来协调与合作的要求。

0505998McMullenThis proposal is to support a planning visit by Dr. Donald F. McMullen and Dr. Michael A. Evans, Pervasive Technology Labs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. They seek to establish an international research network between the US and Turkey to examine how corresponding research agencies in different countries coordinate to establish research priorities and programs. They plan to establish a core US-Turkey research group, to conduct preliminary research at TUBITAK, the Turkish Government science agency, in Ankara, to plan a reciprocal visit by their collaborators there, and to lay the groundwork for an international workshop on the role of "egovernment" in assisting the coordination of international scientific research. The foreign collaborators are: Dr. Kurat Cayltay, Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology, Middle East Technical University and Dr. Mete Yildiz, Department of Public Administration, Hacettepe University, both in Ankara, Turkey.Intellectual Merit - The research agenda is unique. For the most part egovernment studies have narrowly focused on the interaction of citizens with government services and processes, and not as much on interactions between government agencies. There are no reported studies on the interactions between similar agencies in different countries in the service of scientific discovery. An understanding of the knowledge requirements for coordination between agencies with similar missions and an understanding of the degree to which the satisfaction of these requirements could be subsumed by an information system would be a useful addition to the field. As an initial approach the PIs plan to examine the interactions between the NSF and TUBITAK. Turkey is chosen as the initial participating international partner for four reasons: 1) Turkish students are among the top-ten in number of foreign nationals studying in the US and thus a large source for "brain drain"; 2) Turkey plays an important role in the Middle East acting as a bridge between the Central Asia republics of the Russian Federation and Europe; 3) Turkey is held up as a model for neighboring countries in the region for many aspects, including a growing market economy, democracy and education; and 4) Turkey is aggressively working to organize government, industry, and academia for scientific and engineering research purposes.Broader Impacts - The major benefit of the project will be the development of a research network to investigate interagency coordination and knowledge discovery in international scientific collaborations among US and Turkish (and possibly other Middle Eastern) researchers. The expected benefits anticipated are as follows: 1) A network of researchers investigating international interagency coordination and scientific collaboration will be established between the US and Turkey (and possibly interested Middle Eastern countries); 2) A long-term research agenda to study the possibilities and consequences of e-Government initiatives between the US and the Middle East will be initiated. 3) The identification of salient variables that inhibit or facilitate coordination and collaboration will be identified and investigated. 4) Recommendations for policy changes to facilitate coordination and collaboration among participating countries will be offered. 5) Requirements for socio-technical systems to implement policy changes and facilitate future coordination and collaboration will be derived.