RCN: Digital Society and Technologies Research Coordination Network

该研究协调网络将采用一系列讲习班、研讨会和其他能力建设活动，以建立一个“轻量级”(即负担最小或限制最小、可广泛使用和受到赞赏的)网络组织，其参与者力求通过社会技术研究促进数字技术的设计、采用和影响。与该网络有关的一个关键产品将是一个网络基础设施，它能够存放和检索用于研究、设计和管理社会技术系统的有用资产(例如，想法、文件、数据)。区域社区网络的社区建设和研究启动目标将通过五年的至少33个讲习班实现。讲习班将吸引来自广泛领域和专业协会的学者和从业人员参加，以解决知识共享中的社会技术问题。研讨会的对话将使最新的发现和工具能够在学科和领域之间传播。他们还将鼓励研究人员社区跨越学术竖井进行合作，并解决与社会技术实践中紧迫问题有关的问题。因此，更广泛的影响将包括共享的研究网络基础设施和改善社会技术实践的更好的证据基础。了解如何最好地完成技术中介的工作，这是本区域网络的重点，对科学界和培育将增强国家竞争力和安全的国家创新生态系统都非常重要。这一领域的学术研究目前是支离破碎的，因此可以从跨学科边界的知识、技术和工具的整合和传播中受益匪浅。

This Research Coordination Network will employ a series of workshops, seminars and other capacity-building activities to build out a "lightweight" (i.e., minimally burdensome or constraining, widely accessible and appreciated) network organization whose participants seek to advance the design, adoption and impact of digital technologies through sociotechnical research. A key product associated with the network will be a cyberinfrastructure that enables deposit and retrieval of useful assets (e.g., ideas, documents, data) for studying, designing and managing sociotechnical systems.The community-building and research-initiating goals of the RCN are to be achieved through at least 33 workshops across five years of the effort. The workshops will engage scholars and practitioners from a wide range of fields and professional societies that address sociotechnical issues in knowledge sharing. The workshop conversations will enable diffusion of state-of-the-art findings and tools across disciplines and domains. They will also encourage communities of researchers to collaborate across academic silos and to address questions related to pressing problems in sociotechnical practice. Thus, broader impacts will include both a shared research cyberinfrastructure and enhanced evidence bases for improved sociotechnical practice.Understanding how technologically mediated work is best accomplished, which is the focus of this RCN, is of great importance both to the scientific community and to nurturing a national innovation ecosystem that will enhance national competitiveness and security. Scholarly research in this domain is currently fragmented so could benefit greatly from integration and from diffusion of knowledge, techniques and tools across disciplinary boundaries.