CDI-Type II: Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure (OSD-CI)

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案资助的（公法111-5）。网络驱动的发现和创新（CDI）提案编号：0941565 PI：Tracy Kirobski-Correa机构：圣母大学标题：CDI-II型：开放采购民用基础设施设计（OSD-CI）在这个项目中，提出了一个虚拟组织（VO），允许所有利益相关者工程师，政府官员、研究人员、学生，甚至广大公众，作为“公民工程师”参与修复我们国家日益恶化的民用基础设施。 为此，该奖项将解决四个方面的合作：利用人类努力，利用集体知识，汇集公共软件和利用分布式计算硬件。Linux和维基百科证明了组织松散的团队可以创建和维护社会日益依赖的复杂技术和知识基础设施。这些项目的成功并不是因为不加区别地接受参与者，而是因为创造了一种精英制度，奖励专业知识，而不管其来源如何。 OSD-CI旨在使重要的公共工程项目同样受益于更广泛的工程界的全部专业知识和最新进展。 VO将在综合网络基础设施中使用档案设计库、社交网络和工具库。 研究人员预计，新类型的发现、教育和工程创新将以前所未有的方式出现，以应对民用基础设施面临的挑战。此外，该项目所产生的政策有望为群体解决问题定义新的任务复杂度，从而为需要高度可信和开放的VO的设计和有效性提供新的发现、见解和理论平台。通过OSD-CI解决民用基础设施面临的挑战，将为依赖该基础设施的社会带来直接利益。此外，OSD-CI合作实验室的社会结构为广大公众参与研究和设计企业提供了一个新的范例。 它将为“公民工程师”之间的合作和联网提供新的手段。“此外，它还将帮助世界各地的学生接受教育和指导，特别是那些在当地缺乏这种机会的发展中地区的学生。最终，OSD-CI被设想成为一个虚拟的市政厅，公众成员与决策者、工程师、建筑师和规划师互动，为直接影响他们及其社区的进程做出贡献。一旦先例确立，这些开源社区概念就可以扩展到其他领域，作为有效利用虚拟组织应对社会挑战的基本框架和模式。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)Proposal Number: 0941565PI: Tracy Kijewski-CorreaInstitution: University of Notre DameTitle: CDI-Type II: Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure (OSD-CI)In this project, a virtual organization (VO) is proposed that would allowing all stakeholders engineers, public officials, researchers, students, and even the public at-large to engage as "Citizen Engineers" to rehabilitate our nations deteriorating civil infrastructure. To this end, the award will address four dimensions of collaboration: harnessing human effort, tapping collective knowledge, pooling communal software and leveraging distributed computational hardware. Linux and Wikipedia serve as evidence that loosely organized teams can create and maintain the complex technical and intellectual infrastructure upon which society increasingly depends. These projects have succeeded not by accepting participants indiscriminately, but by creating a meritocracy that rewards expertise regardless of its source. OSD-CI is devised as a way that essential public-works projects could benefit similarly from the full expertise and latest advances available in the wider engineering community. The VO will use an archival Design Gallery, a Social Network, and a Tool Repository within an integrated cyberinfrastructure. The investigators expect that new types of discovery, education and engineering innovation will emerge to address the challenges facing civil infrastructure in an unprecedented fashion. Furthermore, the policies that result from this project are expected to define a new level of task complexity for problem-solving by crowds, thus providing a platform for new discoveries, insights and theories on the design and effectiveness of VOs that require extreme trustworthiness and openness.By addressing challenges facing civil infrastructure with OSD-CI, there will be direct benefits to society reliant on this infrastructure. Furthermore, the social fabric of the OSD-CI Collaboratory provides a new paradigm for engaging the public at large in the research and design enterprise. It will offering new means of collaboration and networking among "Citizen Engineers." In addition, it will also aid education and mentoring of students worldwide, particularly those in developing areas lacking access to such opportunities locally. Eventually, OSD-CI is envisioned to become a virtual Town Hall where members of the public interface with decision makers, engineers, architects and planners to contribute to processes directly impacting them and their communities. Once the precedent is set, these open-source communal concepts could be extended to other fields as a basic framework and model for the effective use of VOs for addressing societal challenges.