SC2: US-India Smart and Connected Communities Workshop

该项目的目标是组织一个高质量的研讨会，邀请来自美国和印度的参与者，以促进智能和互联社区（SC2）的协同研究合作，这是两国的一个重要国家主题。SC2研讨会将于2016年6月9日至11日在德里的印度理工学院（IIT）举行。它旨在汇集来自美国和印度的12位思想领袖和有远见的研究人员，探索在发展科学和工程基础，创新信息和通信技术（ICT）解决方案方面的合作，以实现宜居，可行，可持续和互联的社区，以提高生活质量。研讨会将重点讨论信息和通信技术在医疗保健、能源以及灾害应对和恢复方面的应用。就物理环境、人口、社会和文化差异而言，这些应用领域提出了独特的挑战。通过联合调查它们，可以利用一系列不同但互补的场景、测试平台和数据集，这些场景、测试平台和数据集对于研究整合ICT解决方案的各种可持续社会至关重要。这将有助于在研究、教育、技术创新、创业和劳动力发展方面建立更强大的美印战略联盟，以增强全球竞争力。

The goal of this project is to organize a high quality workshop involving participants from United States and India to foster synergistic research collaboration on Smart and Connected Communities (SC2), a topic of national importance for both countries. The SC2 workshop will be held on June 9-11, 2016 at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. It aims to bring together 12 thought leaders and visionary researchers from each of US and India to explore collaboration on developing scientific and engineering foundations, innovative information and communication technology (ICT) solutions to enable livable, workable, sustainable, and connected communities with a goal to improve quality of life. The workshop will focus on the applications of ICT to healthcare, energy, and disaster response and recovery. These application domains pose unique challenges so far as physical environments, demography, social and cultural differences are concerned. By jointly investigating them, it is possible to leverage a broad set of distinct yet complementary scenarios, testbeds, and datasets critical for studying a wide variety of sustainable societies that integrate ICT solutions. This will help establish stronger US-India strategic alliance in research, education, technology innovation, entrepreneurship, and workforce development in order to be globally competitive.