Building Network Enabled International Science and Engineering Collaborations in the Lower Mekong Region

印第安纳大学、Pragma项目、网络创业研究中心(NSRC)和国家大气研究中心(NCAR)将于2013年底在越南举办一次科学和网络基础设施研讨会，参加者包括柬埔寨、老挝、泰国、越南和缅甸等湄公河下游地区(LMR)国家。研讨会将集中于三个领域：1)形成和加强美国科学家和LMR国家科学家之间的科学和教育合作；2)发展操作和维护网络基础设施的人的能力，以支持科学和工程合作；3)在网络基础设施发展和科学合作方面的政策和监管最佳做法。在研究和教育网络(RENS)刚刚兴起的国家，发展由网络运营商、用户和政策制定者组成的知识社区是支持和促进地区内、美国和全球研究人员和教育工作者之间合作的必要步骤。研讨会的学术价值在于汇聚了以下三个群体：校园和国家层面的RENS的网络运营商和管理者；来自区域内和美国机构的研究人员，他们在三个主要的科学和工程领域进行合作：灾害管理、气候变化和林业；以及来自政府和学术界的政策制定者和领导人，他们参与支持各自国家和地区的网络基础设施和协作科学的发展。研讨会的成果将有利于湄公河下游国家具有国家和地区重要性的科学和工程领域的科学和工程，并将加强美国在这些领域的科学和工程合作。美国国务院参与了跨国的湄公河下游倡议(LMI)，旨在加强该地区在教育、卫生、环境和基础设施等关键问题上的合作。国务院的资金将支持该地区科学家的参与，这将扩大讲习班的影响。NSF的资金将支持美国科学家和研究生与LMR国家的合作者合作和/或与该地区的同行合作，包括来自NSF许多部门的科学家和研究生的旅行。研讨会之一？S将产生更广泛的影响，包括增加来自LMR国家的研究人员对国际科学和工程项目的参与。使用网络基础设施工具向网络运营商和研究人员提供的培训将以可持续的培训者培训方法进行，以鼓励持续学习。

Indiana University, the PRAGMA project, the Network Startup Research Center (NSRC) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)) will organize a science and cyberinfrastructure workshop to be held in Vietnam in late 2013, involving countries of the Lower Mekong region (LMR), including Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar. The workshop will focus on three areas: 1) forming and enhancing science and education collaborations among US scientists and scientists of the countries of the LMR; 2) developing human capacity to operate and maintain cyberinfrastructure in support of science and engineering collaborations; 3) policy and regulatory best practices in cyberinfrastructure development and science collaboration. In countries where Research and Education Networks (RENs) are just emerging, developing a knowledgeable community of network operators, users and policy makers is a necessary step in supporting and fostering collaborations between researchers and educators within the region, with the US and globally. The intellectual merit of the workshop is the bringing together of these three groups: network operators and managers of RENs at the campus and national levels; researchers from institutions within the region and from the US who collaborate in three main areas of science and engineering: disaster management, climate change and forestry; and policy-makers and leaders from government and academia involved in supporting the development of cyberinfrastructure and collaborative science in their countries and in the region. The results of the workshop will benefit science and engineering in areas of national and regional importance in the Lower Mekong countries, and where US science and engineering collaborations will be enhanced. The US Department of State is engaged in the multinational Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI), designed to enhance collaboration in the region on critical issues of education, health, environment and infrastructure. Funds from the Department of State will support participation by scientists from within the region, which will broaden the impact of the workshop. The NSF funds will support travel for US scientists and graduate students working with collaborators in the countries of the LMR and/or collaborating with counterparts in the region, including those from across many NSF divisions. One of the workshop?s broader impacts will include increasing participation by researchers from countries of the LMR in international science and engineering projects. The training provided to both network operators and researchers using cyberinfrastructure tools will be done in a sustainable, train-the-trainer method to encourage ongoing learning.