SGER: Multi-Lifespan Information System Research Initiative - The Information for an International Justice System

种族灭绝艾滋病毒/艾滋病的饥荒砍伐森林。栖息地的破坏。物种灭绝。被迫逃亡。这些问题有一些共同点。它们以这样或那样的方式给人类、其他有知觉的生物或自然界带来广泛的损失;此外，不可能在一个人的一生中（如果有的话）从这些损失中恢复过来。信息和围绕信息的过程也可能对解决这些问题做出很大贡献。那么，如何通过信息系统设计来解决这类问题呢？信息系统存在哪些独特的机会，它们可以发挥什么作用？在一个以尖端创新而闻名的领域，使用超过五年的设备被视为传统产品，人们如何开始考虑跨越可能超过一个人寿命的时间段的流程和解决方案？这一拟议的技术和社会研究倡议通过与重要的真实的世界问题空间合作，开始概述信息系统帮助构建长期解决方案的可能机会和作用，来应对多寿命设计挑战。这一开创性项目领域是联合国卢旺达问题国际刑事法庭（ICTR）的信息遗产。目标有两个：（1）为所研究的特定真实的世界问题提供有意义的信息系统设计;（2）产生关于多寿命信息系统设计的更多一般知识。这一SGER将资助一个研究小组和摄制组前往坦桑尼亚举办未来讲习班，并与卢旺达问题国际法庭人员进行大约20次背景访谈。时间紧迫从2009年1月1日起，卢旺达问题国际法庭计划开始大幅缩编。随着个人分散到全球各地寻找新的职业机会，在界定和实施国际司法系统方面的大量知识将迅速消失。这确实是一个多生命周期的信息系统设计工作。该项目将努力建立一个信息系统，满足通过多种信息工具进入该系统的国际受众的需要，从而应对独特的技术和社会挑战。建立一个适应性强的基础设施，在今后100多年里保存和管理卢旺达问题国际法庭的信息遗产，并解决隐私、访问和安全方面的困难挑战，对其他国际法庭来说也是非常重要的。

Genocide. HIV/AIDS. Famine. Deforestation. Habitat destruction. Species extinction. Forced exodus. These problems share some commonalities. In one way or another, they entail widespread losses to human beings, to other sentient beings, or to the natural world; moreover, recovery from those losses is not likely within the time frame of a single human lifespan (if ever). It is also the case that information and the processes around information may have much to contribute to the solutions of these problems. How then might this class of problems be addressed through information system design? What unique opportunities exist for information systems and what roles might they play? In a field known for cutting edge innovation, where devices over five years old are regarded as legacy, how does one begin to consider processes and solutions that span periods that likely extend beyond a single human lifespan? This proposed technical and social research initiative takes up the multi-lifespan design challenge by working with significant real world problem spaces to begin outlining possible opportunities and roles for information systems to help construct longer-term solutions. This inaugural project area is the information heritage of the United Nation's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The goals are twofold: (1) to contribute meaningful information system designs to the specific real world problems under study; and (2) to generate more general knowledge about the design of multi-lifespan information systems. This SGER will fund one research team and film crew to travel to Tanzania to conduct Futures Workshops and roughly 20 contextual interviews with ICTR personnel. This is time critical. As of January 1, 2009 the ICTR is scheduled to initiate a radical downsizing. The vast amount of knowledge in defining and implementing an international justice system will quickly dissolve as individuals scatter globally to find new career opportunities.Broader impact. This is truly a multi-lifespan information system design effort. The project will address unique technical and social challenges through its efforts to create an information system that serves the needs of an international audience who access the system through a multiplicity of information tools. An adaptable infrastructure that preserves and manages the ICTR's information heritage for the next one hundred plus years and addresses the difficult challenges of privacy, access, and security will be highly relevant to other international tribunals.