The Network of Excellence in Internet Science aims to achieve a deeper multidisciplinary understanding of the Internet as a societal and technological artefact.
More information: http://internet-science.eu/
Twitter: @i_scienceEU
The document outlines the CARDIAC project which aims to advise the European Commission on directing future research funding in ICT for independent living and inclusion through a structured consultation process with stakeholders called Structured Dialogic Design. The project will involve 4 main events using this process between 2010-2013 in various European countries. The document provides contact details for further information on the CARDIAC project.
Into the Night - Technology for citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Current citizen science seems effortless...just download an app and start using it. However, there are many technical aspects that are necessary to make a citizen science project work. In this session, we will provide an overview of all the technical elements that are required - from the process of designing an app., to designing and managing a back-end system, to testing the system end to end before deployment. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a short exercise to consider the design of an app for a citizen science project that addresses light pollution.
Parthenos Training: Infrastructures - The infrastructural turnParthenos
The document discusses the history of research infrastructures (RIs) and knowledge infrastructures. It notes that the idea of an RI was first conceived in the 3rd century BC with the founding of the Library of Alexandria. It also discusses how over the past 200 years, there has been an exponential increase in information gathering and the development of technologies to organize information. The document highlights 2006 as a turning point with the publication of the ESFRI Roadmap and a report calling for investment in digital RIs to support humanities research. Finally, it discusses challenges for digital libraries in maintaining large volumes of scholar-generated content, enabling new methodologies, and maintaining high upfront investment.
The document outlines a strategic planning effort for developing a national transportation data framework called Transportation for the Nation (TFTN). It discusses conducting interviews, workshops and surveys to identify best practices, requirements, strategies and standards for TFTN. The effort aims to engage stakeholders from all levels of government and the private sector to document progress made and explore implementation issues.
The Willing Volunteer – Incorporating Voluntary Data into National DatabasesMuki Haklay
At present few mapping databases contain crowd sourced or voluntary data. Consider how, in the future, this will be a valuable source of data for national geospatial, cadastral and mapping agencies
The document outlines the CARDIAC project which aims to advise the European Commission on directing future research funding in ICT for independent living and inclusion through a structured consultation process with stakeholders called Structured Dialogic Design. The project will involve 4 main events using this process between 2010-2013 in various European countries. The document provides contact details for further information on the CARDIAC project.
Into the Night - Technology for citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Current citizen science seems effortless...just download an app and start using it. However, there are many technical aspects that are necessary to make a citizen science project work. In this session, we will provide an overview of all the technical elements that are required - from the process of designing an app., to designing and managing a back-end system, to testing the system end to end before deployment. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a short exercise to consider the design of an app for a citizen science project that addresses light pollution.
Parthenos Training: Infrastructures - The infrastructural turnParthenos
The document discusses the history of research infrastructures (RIs) and knowledge infrastructures. It notes that the idea of an RI was first conceived in the 3rd century BC with the founding of the Library of Alexandria. It also discusses how over the past 200 years, there has been an exponential increase in information gathering and the development of technologies to organize information. The document highlights 2006 as a turning point with the publication of the ESFRI Roadmap and a report calling for investment in digital RIs to support humanities research. Finally, it discusses challenges for digital libraries in maintaining large volumes of scholar-generated content, enabling new methodologies, and maintaining high upfront investment.
The document outlines a strategic planning effort for developing a national transportation data framework called Transportation for the Nation (TFTN). It discusses conducting interviews, workshops and surveys to identify best practices, requirements, strategies and standards for TFTN. The effort aims to engage stakeholders from all levels of government and the private sector to document progress made and explore implementation issues.
The Willing Volunteer – Incorporating Voluntary Data into National DatabasesMuki Haklay
At present few mapping databases contain crowd sourced or voluntary data. Consider how, in the future, this will be a valuable source of data for national geospatial, cadastral and mapping agencies
Examining the values that are embedded in the processes and technologies of p...Muki Haklay
A persistent question about participatory methodologies that rely on technologies, such as public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), is how to integrate values, such as inclusiveness of all the people that are impacted by a decision, or identifying options that are popular by the majority but acceptable to the minority, within technologically focused projects. Moreover, technologies do not operate by themselves – they are embedded in organizational, political, and social processes that set how they are used, who can use them, and in what context. Therefore, we should explore where the values reside?
Two factors obscure our view: The misleading conceptualisation that technologies are value free, and can be used for good or for bad – which put all the weight on the process, and ignores the way in which any technology allow only certain actions to be taken. Another popular view of technology conceptualisation is to emphasise their advantages (upside) and ignore their limitations. If we move beyond these, and other “common sense” views of technologies, we can notice how process and technology intertwine.
We can therefore look at the way the process/technology reinforce and limit each other, and the way that the values are integrated and influence them. With this analysis, we can also consider how technological development can explicitly include considerations of values, and be philosophically, politically, and social-theory informed. We need to consider the roles, skills, and knowledge of the people that are involved in each part of the process – from community facilitation to software development.
The paper will draw on the experience of developing participatory geographic information technologies over the past 20 years, and will suggest future directions for values-based participatory technology development.
Mr. Titley presented the objectives, events, partners and challenges of ERRIN (European Regions Research and Innovation Network).
(FInES Cluster Meeting, December 2012)
Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing - Data Quality s...Muki Haklay
This is part of the course "introduction to citizen science and scientific crowdsourcing", which you can find at https://extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/product?catalog=UCLXICSSCJan17 . The lecture is dedicated to data management in citizen science, and this part is focusing on data quality
The document discusses H-STAR, a research program at Stanford University that focuses on how people use technology and how technology affects lives. H-STAR seeks partnerships with universities, research organizations, and governments to fund research projects, exchange visiting researchers, and provide resources to partner institutions. Current H-STAR partnerships include universities in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Some example research projects explore video capture and analysis, spatial thinking and learning, and understanding regional innovation ecosystems.
OpenAIRE - Bridging the worlds where science is performed and science is publ...OpenAIRE
The document discusses how the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) can facilitate open science. It outlines three key pillars for EOSC: (1) services for sharing and evaluating research, (2) support and training for open science practices, and (3) aligning policies, standards, and workflows. OpenAIRE is presented as providing important services like its open research graph and supporting the transition to open science through outreach programs. EOSC could leverage these services and help make small research data more accessible and linked as big data.
The talk will cover the concepts behing COST Action IC1203 - a European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and methodologies for harnessing geographic information from the crowd (ENERGIC). The network emerged from the realisation that new and unprecedented sources of geographic information have recently become available in the form of user-generated Web content. The integration and application of these sources, often termed volunteered geographic information (VGI), offers multidisciplinary scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The Action targets fundamental scientific and technological advances by establishing a European network of excellence on Geoweb technologies. The Action focus on VGI and gather efforts carried out in an innovative and under-exploited field of Web research and knowledge production.
In the talk special attention will be paid to the differences between OSM, VGI and Citizen Science, and suggesting 'code of engagement' with OpenStreetMap that are relevant to many other volunteering projects
Into the Night - Citizen Science Training day - introduction to citizen scienceMuki Haklay
This document provides an introduction to environmental citizen science projects. It discusses different types of citizen science, including contributory projects where the public contributes data designed by scientists, collaborative projects where the public helps design the project, and co-created projects designed by scientists and the public together. The document outlines considerations for setting up a citizen science project, such as balancing goals of increasing awareness, collecting data, and education. It also discusses recruiting and retaining participants, as well as evaluating projects for their scientific and societal impacts.
The ESIP Federation is a consortium of over 100 Earth science partners, formed in 1998 by NASA and presently funded by NASA and NOAA. It is a data- and technology-centric community that spans interests from data centers to researchers to application developers. The Federation aims to make Earth science data more usable and accessible, increase data use, and leverage technologies to improve data flow. It does this through technical activities like standards development and societal benefit areas like air quality and climate. The Federation has had successes in building data systems, developing specifications, and facilitating collaborations across agencies.
Haw GIScience lost its interdisciplinary mojo?Muki Haklay
These are the slides from my talk at the GISCience 2016 conference. There is more information on my blog, but the abstract is:
Over the past 25 years, I have experienced an inside track view of two interdisciplinary research fields: Geographical Information Science (GIScience) and Citizen Science. Over that period, I was also involved in about 20 multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary projects. As a result, I also found myself evaluating and funding x-disciplinary projects.
On the basis of these experiences, I’d argue that Interdisciplinarity is always hard, risky, require compromises, accommodations, listening, and making mistakes. The excitement from the outputs and outcomes does not always justify the price. Frequently, there is no-follow on project – it’s been too exhausting.
Considering the project level challenges, viewing interdisciplinary areas of studies emerging is especially interesting. You can notice how concepts are being argued and agreed on. You can see what is inside and what is outside, and where the boundary is drawn. You can see how methodologies, jargon, acceptable behaviour, and modes of operations get accepted or rejected – and from the inside, you can nudge the field and sometimes see the impact of your actions.
GIScience was born as an interdisciplinary field of study, and the period of consolidation that I have seen was supposed to lead to stability and growth. This did not happen. Take any measure that you like: size of conferences, papers – or even the argument if the field deserve a Wikipedia page. Something didn’t work.
In contrast, Citizen Science is already attracting to its conferences audience in the many hundreds – the Citizen Science Association include 4000 (free) members, The European Citizen Science Association 180 (paid) – and that is in the first 2 years since they’ve established.
In the talk, I explore the way in which interdisciplinary projects and fields work, highlight the similarities and differences, and suggest the issues that have led to the outcomes that we see today
This document proposes a panel discussion at the 4th eResearch Australasia Conference to discuss challenges and opportunities around making sense of data in the arts and humanities. The panel will explore questions around the nature of data in these domains, current eResearch practices, and what infrastructures could help facilitate data use and uptake of technologies. The goal is to build on ideas from previous conference papers and encourage discussion on meaningful use of data in arts and humanities research through facilitated audience interaction. The panelists are researchers and professionals active in digital humanities and eResearch support.
This document discusses connectivity and computational resources across universities in Tennessee. It outlines several large-scale computational facilities available to universities, including the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and UT/ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Science. It also discusses plans to foster research partnerships and integrate research across the state by connecting researchers to resources and tools. Finally, it mentions a 3-year NSF grant to support a bioinformatics concentration through training and access to high-performance computing facilities.
The document outlines a presentation given by Ubuntunet Alliance at an Africa Open Science initiative conference in Addis, November 2017. It discusses:
- Ubuntunet Alliance is the regional research and education network for 16 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, connecting national research and education networks (NRENs).
- The current Ubuntunet network includes 10 points of presence across Africa and Europe with over 2Gbps of capacity between Africa and Europe.
- The AfricaConnect2 project aims to consolidate and extend the Ubuntunet network, increase research collaboration, and improve the capacity and sustainability of African NRENs.
- Ubuntunet provides training to build capacity in areas like
The document discusses the history and benefits of virtual conferences compared to in-person conferences. It describes some of the earliest virtual conferences in the 1990s that used various pre-Internet technologies. A 1996 virtual conference had over 800 participants from around the world. Studies have shown that virtual conferences can significantly reduce carbon emissions from eliminated air travel as well as reduce costs and time commitments for participants compared to attending in-person. While virtual conferences may have challenges engaging participants and reducing networking benefits, they provide environmental, financial, and convenience benefits over traditional conferences.
eVa conference - Workshop in Facilitation Skillsiceberg
This document discusses facilitation and planning meetings and events. It introduces the Process Iceberg Meeting Model, which shows that most of an event involves emotions, preferences, communications and interactions beneath the surface, while objectives and tasks are just 20% of the work. It also explains that each task should be linked to an appropriate process or format involving tools and techniques. Finally, it notes that different models, tools and techniques are best suited for different types of thinking and levels of scope, certainty and uncertainty. The overall message is that effective facilitation requires understanding both the tasks and underlying group processes to select formats and techniques that achieve the objectives.
Ed Hootstein proposes that online facilitators take on four roles: instructor, social director, program manager, and technical assistant. As instructor, the facilitator acts as a consultant and resource while fostering learner-centeredness and problem-based learning. As social director, the facilitator creates a collaborative environment through discussion and group work. As program manager, the facilitator helps students organize themselves and learn independently. As technical assistant, the facilitator focuses on learners rather than technology by being proficient in the tools.
The two-day workshop focused on planning and facilitating online discussions. Day 1 covered introducing participants to the online tools and environment. Day 2 focused on verbal and written communication skills and the role of the facilitator in engaging participants. The document discussed synchronous communication, which occurs at the same time but in different places, and asynchronous communication, which is text-based and occurs at different times and places. It also covered establishing objectives, agendas, and communication guidelines for effective online meetings and the tools, equipment, and work environment needed for online facilitation.
Lviv BA Community meeting: Intro to Facilitation within BA workElena Solnceva
Presentation used in the 2nd Lviv BA community meeting, dedicated to the community members discussion and lessons learn sharing about their facilitation experience leaded by Inna and Taras
Meeting facilitation - Team work group OD interventionsmanumelwin
The document provides guidance for facilitating effective meetings. It recommends that meeting facilitators should clearly define why the team is meeting and what they hope to accomplish. The right people should be invited to provide their expertise. The agenda should be developed by inviting all team members to contribute items and estimated times should be assigned to each. The facilitator is Manu Melwin Joy, an assistant professor at Ilahia School of Management Studies in Kerala, India.
The document outlines the facilitation process used by an HRD department to plan corporate strategies. It involves 7 stages: 1) engaging senior leadership, 2) pre-meeting analysis, 3) strategy formulation, 4) prioritizing strategies, 5) communicating strategies, 6) aligning department plans, and 7) quarterly reviews. The process brings together information from various stakeholders and uses techniques like situation analysis, diagnostics, and prioritization matrices. The HRD department acts as a facilitator and business partner to ensure an effective strategy planning process.
This document provides an overview of developing facilitation skills. It discusses:
1) What facilitation skills are and why they are important for guiding meetings and discussions. Facilitators help groups meet their goals and move effectively through agendas.
2) Some keys aspects of being a good facilitator including focusing on the process, not opinions, and ensuring all participants can contribute. Facilitators must also deal with potential disrupters.
3) Tips for planning and facilitating effective meetings, such as establishing ground rules, encouraging participation, and summarizing discussions. The document outlines steps a facilitator should take during a meeting.
Examining the values that are embedded in the processes and technologies of p...Muki Haklay
A persistent question about participatory methodologies that rely on technologies, such as public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), is how to integrate values, such as inclusiveness of all the people that are impacted by a decision, or identifying options that are popular by the majority but acceptable to the minority, within technologically focused projects. Moreover, technologies do not operate by themselves – they are embedded in organizational, political, and social processes that set how they are used, who can use them, and in what context. Therefore, we should explore where the values reside?
Two factors obscure our view: The misleading conceptualisation that technologies are value free, and can be used for good or for bad – which put all the weight on the process, and ignores the way in which any technology allow only certain actions to be taken. Another popular view of technology conceptualisation is to emphasise their advantages (upside) and ignore their limitations. If we move beyond these, and other “common sense” views of technologies, we can notice how process and technology intertwine.
We can therefore look at the way the process/technology reinforce and limit each other, and the way that the values are integrated and influence them. With this analysis, we can also consider how technological development can explicitly include considerations of values, and be philosophically, politically, and social-theory informed. We need to consider the roles, skills, and knowledge of the people that are involved in each part of the process – from community facilitation to software development.
The paper will draw on the experience of developing participatory geographic information technologies over the past 20 years, and will suggest future directions for values-based participatory technology development.
Mr. Titley presented the objectives, events, partners and challenges of ERRIN (European Regions Research and Innovation Network).
(FInES Cluster Meeting, December 2012)
Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing - Data Quality s...Muki Haklay
This is part of the course "introduction to citizen science and scientific crowdsourcing", which you can find at https://extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/product?catalog=UCLXICSSCJan17 . The lecture is dedicated to data management in citizen science, and this part is focusing on data quality
The document discusses H-STAR, a research program at Stanford University that focuses on how people use technology and how technology affects lives. H-STAR seeks partnerships with universities, research organizations, and governments to fund research projects, exchange visiting researchers, and provide resources to partner institutions. Current H-STAR partnerships include universities in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Some example research projects explore video capture and analysis, spatial thinking and learning, and understanding regional innovation ecosystems.
OpenAIRE - Bridging the worlds where science is performed and science is publ...OpenAIRE
The document discusses how the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) can facilitate open science. It outlines three key pillars for EOSC: (1) services for sharing and evaluating research, (2) support and training for open science practices, and (3) aligning policies, standards, and workflows. OpenAIRE is presented as providing important services like its open research graph and supporting the transition to open science through outreach programs. EOSC could leverage these services and help make small research data more accessible and linked as big data.
The talk will cover the concepts behing COST Action IC1203 - a European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and methodologies for harnessing geographic information from the crowd (ENERGIC). The network emerged from the realisation that new and unprecedented sources of geographic information have recently become available in the form of user-generated Web content. The integration and application of these sources, often termed volunteered geographic information (VGI), offers multidisciplinary scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The Action targets fundamental scientific and technological advances by establishing a European network of excellence on Geoweb technologies. The Action focus on VGI and gather efforts carried out in an innovative and under-exploited field of Web research and knowledge production.
In the talk special attention will be paid to the differences between OSM, VGI and Citizen Science, and suggesting 'code of engagement' with OpenStreetMap that are relevant to many other volunteering projects
Into the Night - Citizen Science Training day - introduction to citizen scienceMuki Haklay
This document provides an introduction to environmental citizen science projects. It discusses different types of citizen science, including contributory projects where the public contributes data designed by scientists, collaborative projects where the public helps design the project, and co-created projects designed by scientists and the public together. The document outlines considerations for setting up a citizen science project, such as balancing goals of increasing awareness, collecting data, and education. It also discusses recruiting and retaining participants, as well as evaluating projects for their scientific and societal impacts.
The ESIP Federation is a consortium of over 100 Earth science partners, formed in 1998 by NASA and presently funded by NASA and NOAA. It is a data- and technology-centric community that spans interests from data centers to researchers to application developers. The Federation aims to make Earth science data more usable and accessible, increase data use, and leverage technologies to improve data flow. It does this through technical activities like standards development and societal benefit areas like air quality and climate. The Federation has had successes in building data systems, developing specifications, and facilitating collaborations across agencies.
Haw GIScience lost its interdisciplinary mojo?Muki Haklay
These are the slides from my talk at the GISCience 2016 conference. There is more information on my blog, but the abstract is:
Over the past 25 years, I have experienced an inside track view of two interdisciplinary research fields: Geographical Information Science (GIScience) and Citizen Science. Over that period, I was also involved in about 20 multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary projects. As a result, I also found myself evaluating and funding x-disciplinary projects.
On the basis of these experiences, I’d argue that Interdisciplinarity is always hard, risky, require compromises, accommodations, listening, and making mistakes. The excitement from the outputs and outcomes does not always justify the price. Frequently, there is no-follow on project – it’s been too exhausting.
Considering the project level challenges, viewing interdisciplinary areas of studies emerging is especially interesting. You can notice how concepts are being argued and agreed on. You can see what is inside and what is outside, and where the boundary is drawn. You can see how methodologies, jargon, acceptable behaviour, and modes of operations get accepted or rejected – and from the inside, you can nudge the field and sometimes see the impact of your actions.
GIScience was born as an interdisciplinary field of study, and the period of consolidation that I have seen was supposed to lead to stability and growth. This did not happen. Take any measure that you like: size of conferences, papers – or even the argument if the field deserve a Wikipedia page. Something didn’t work.
In contrast, Citizen Science is already attracting to its conferences audience in the many hundreds – the Citizen Science Association include 4000 (free) members, The European Citizen Science Association 180 (paid) – and that is in the first 2 years since they’ve established.
In the talk, I explore the way in which interdisciplinary projects and fields work, highlight the similarities and differences, and suggest the issues that have led to the outcomes that we see today
This document proposes a panel discussion at the 4th eResearch Australasia Conference to discuss challenges and opportunities around making sense of data in the arts and humanities. The panel will explore questions around the nature of data in these domains, current eResearch practices, and what infrastructures could help facilitate data use and uptake of technologies. The goal is to build on ideas from previous conference papers and encourage discussion on meaningful use of data in arts and humanities research through facilitated audience interaction. The panelists are researchers and professionals active in digital humanities and eResearch support.
This document discusses connectivity and computational resources across universities in Tennessee. It outlines several large-scale computational facilities available to universities, including the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and UT/ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Science. It also discusses plans to foster research partnerships and integrate research across the state by connecting researchers to resources and tools. Finally, it mentions a 3-year NSF grant to support a bioinformatics concentration through training and access to high-performance computing facilities.
The document outlines a presentation given by Ubuntunet Alliance at an Africa Open Science initiative conference in Addis, November 2017. It discusses:
- Ubuntunet Alliance is the regional research and education network for 16 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, connecting national research and education networks (NRENs).
- The current Ubuntunet network includes 10 points of presence across Africa and Europe with over 2Gbps of capacity between Africa and Europe.
- The AfricaConnect2 project aims to consolidate and extend the Ubuntunet network, increase research collaboration, and improve the capacity and sustainability of African NRENs.
- Ubuntunet provides training to build capacity in areas like
The document discusses the history and benefits of virtual conferences compared to in-person conferences. It describes some of the earliest virtual conferences in the 1990s that used various pre-Internet technologies. A 1996 virtual conference had over 800 participants from around the world. Studies have shown that virtual conferences can significantly reduce carbon emissions from eliminated air travel as well as reduce costs and time commitments for participants compared to attending in-person. While virtual conferences may have challenges engaging participants and reducing networking benefits, they provide environmental, financial, and convenience benefits over traditional conferences.
eVa conference - Workshop in Facilitation Skillsiceberg
This document discusses facilitation and planning meetings and events. It introduces the Process Iceberg Meeting Model, which shows that most of an event involves emotions, preferences, communications and interactions beneath the surface, while objectives and tasks are just 20% of the work. It also explains that each task should be linked to an appropriate process or format involving tools and techniques. Finally, it notes that different models, tools and techniques are best suited for different types of thinking and levels of scope, certainty and uncertainty. The overall message is that effective facilitation requires understanding both the tasks and underlying group processes to select formats and techniques that achieve the objectives.
Ed Hootstein proposes that online facilitators take on four roles: instructor, social director, program manager, and technical assistant. As instructor, the facilitator acts as a consultant and resource while fostering learner-centeredness and problem-based learning. As social director, the facilitator creates a collaborative environment through discussion and group work. As program manager, the facilitator helps students organize themselves and learn independently. As technical assistant, the facilitator focuses on learners rather than technology by being proficient in the tools.
The two-day workshop focused on planning and facilitating online discussions. Day 1 covered introducing participants to the online tools and environment. Day 2 focused on verbal and written communication skills and the role of the facilitator in engaging participants. The document discussed synchronous communication, which occurs at the same time but in different places, and asynchronous communication, which is text-based and occurs at different times and places. It also covered establishing objectives, agendas, and communication guidelines for effective online meetings and the tools, equipment, and work environment needed for online facilitation.
Lviv BA Community meeting: Intro to Facilitation within BA workElena Solnceva
Presentation used in the 2nd Lviv BA community meeting, dedicated to the community members discussion and lessons learn sharing about their facilitation experience leaded by Inna and Taras
Meeting facilitation - Team work group OD interventionsmanumelwin
The document provides guidance for facilitating effective meetings. It recommends that meeting facilitators should clearly define why the team is meeting and what they hope to accomplish. The right people should be invited to provide their expertise. The agenda should be developed by inviting all team members to contribute items and estimated times should be assigned to each. The facilitator is Manu Melwin Joy, an assistant professor at Ilahia School of Management Studies in Kerala, India.
The document outlines the facilitation process used by an HRD department to plan corporate strategies. It involves 7 stages: 1) engaging senior leadership, 2) pre-meeting analysis, 3) strategy formulation, 4) prioritizing strategies, 5) communicating strategies, 6) aligning department plans, and 7) quarterly reviews. The process brings together information from various stakeholders and uses techniques like situation analysis, diagnostics, and prioritization matrices. The HRD department acts as a facilitator and business partner to ensure an effective strategy planning process.
This document provides an overview of developing facilitation skills. It discusses:
1) What facilitation skills are and why they are important for guiding meetings and discussions. Facilitators help groups meet their goals and move effectively through agendas.
2) Some keys aspects of being a good facilitator including focusing on the process, not opinions, and ensuring all participants can contribute. Facilitators must also deal with potential disrupters.
3) Tips for planning and facilitating effective meetings, such as establishing ground rules, encouraging participation, and summarizing discussions. The document outlines steps a facilitator should take during a meeting.
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This document provides an introduction to meeting facilitation. It discusses what makes a successful meeting, including design and planning, guiding and managing participant engagement and decision making, recording outcomes, and ensuring accountability. A facilitator's role is to focus discussions on outcomes by engaging all participants and addressing any challenging participant behaviors, such as monopolizing conversations, distracting others, expressing skepticism, or sniping at ideas. The document offers strategies for facilitating inclusive discussions and overcoming potential obstacles to ensure meetings are productive.
Consensus Facilitation Workshop Handout | IA Summit 2010Gabby Hon
This is the handout I wrote for participants in the Consensus Facilitation workshop to take home.
The session itself was an actual consensus facilitation workshop for the 22 attendees. We used the focus question, "How can we improve the IA Summit?" and worked through individual brainstorming to small groups to full group sharing, organizing and naming.
This document provides guidance on effective meeting facilitation. It discusses establishing clear desired outcomes, creating an agenda, setting ground rules, conducting the meeting through opening, content and closing sections, and following up after the meeting through publishing minutes and ensuring progress on action items. The goal is to have meetings that are essential, focused, established, collaborative, time-phased, initiative-minded and valuable.
Slides to a two day workshop about hosting meetings and large events for communities and organisations. It\'s aimed at participant participation , experience and dialogue orientated.
This is a one-day course on facilitation skills. It is essentially a meta-facilitation course, since it's a facilitated course about facilitation. So, the same techniques that you learn about facilitation are actually applied in the delivery of the course.
The topics of this training are:
- Presenting vs. facilitating
- Facilitator competencies
- Facilitation techniques
- Facilitation in action, using an advanced facilitation technique
- Handling disruptive participants
- Structuring your development plan to be a better facilitator.
The material is adapted from “Facilitation Skills Training”, by Don McCain and Deborah Davis Tobey, ATD Press.
This document outlines an agenda for a training on facilitation skills. The objectives are to understand the roles, responsibilities, and structure of facilitation. The agenda covers getting started, the responsibilities of facilitators, facilitation maps, and basic facilitation techniques. It includes times for breaks, lunch, and concludes with an evaluation. Sample activities include reviewing a video, practicing skills, and giving feedback.
This document outlines 16 process tools for effective meeting facilitation:
1. Use a participative approach to set goals and ensure all voices are heard.
2. Uncover potential issues and conflicts with yes or no questions.
3. Accumulate potential ideas from the group, remembering that no ideas are bad at this stage.
4. Ensure all sides get a fair hearing to reduce tension in conflicts.
The document outlines an agenda for a training on facilitation skills. It includes the following:
- Learning objectives around understanding the roles and responsibilities of facilitators as well as basic facilitation skills and structure.
- A detailed timetable outlining sessions on getting started, basic responsibilities of facilitators, basic facilitation map, facilitation techniques, and conclusion.
- An overview of the modules including getting started, basic responsibilities, basic facilitation map, and basic facilitation techniques.
The document discusses essential facilitation skills for meetings. It outlines the 6 Ps of facilitation: plan, prepare, practice, promote, present, and produce. The 6 Ps provide a framework for effective facilitation, including planning the purpose, outcomes, participants and agenda. Meeting behaviors like initiating discussion, clarifying ideas, and summarizing are described as helpful. Difficult behaviors like agenda jumping and blocking are also noted. The document provides tips for applying the 6 Ps and handling challenges during facilitated meetings.
This document provides guidance on facilitating effective meetings. It discusses basic facilitation skills like making participants comfortable, encouraging participation, and guiding the group. It also covers facilitating the opening, discussions/decisions, and conclusion of a meeting. Challenges that may arise are addressed, such as side conversations or an inability to reach consensus. The overall document aims to teach facilitators how to properly structure and manage a meeting to achieve objectives and make quality decisions.
Network of Excellence in Internet Science (SEA4, Organisation of open calls, ...i_scienceEU
The Network of Excellence in Internet Science aims to achieve a deeper multidisciplinary understanding of the Internet as a societal and technological artefact.
More information: http://internet-science.eu/
Twitter: @i_scienceEU
D01L11 D Poletto - Taking Stock of BES Research Centres and Institutions in S...SEENET-MTP
This document discusses constraints on research and policy connections and the role of scientific networks. It notes several barriers that limit the supply of policy-relevant research, including poor communication between researchers and policymakers. Scientific networks are presented as an effective way to build capacity for policy-relevant research and ensure knowledge is available to decision-makers. The document then provides details on UNESCO's networking efforts in science and specific networks in Southeast Europe.
Text (personal views position statement) to accompany presentation on what research infrastructures really need for data, XLDB-Europe, 8-10th June 2011, Edinburgh
The document discusses the Know4drr project, which aims to coordinate existing research on developing a knowledge management framework for disaster risk reduction integrated with climate change adaptation. It outlines the various work packages of the project, including mapping knowledge flows, developing a knowledge management system, monitoring EU policies, and disseminating results. The project seeks to better understand how knowledge is developed, shared, applied, and sometimes forgotten among different groups to enhance disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
OpenAIRE at INFSO-RTD, Open Access Co-ordination Workshop, Brussels, May 2011OpenAIRE
1. OpenAIRE makes open access publications from European funded projects accessible by linking publications to projects and repositories.
2. It delivers participatory infrastructure by building on existing European repositories and technologies while pushing coordination and capitalizing on existing tools.
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Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Network of Excellence in Internet Science (IA1, Facilitation of Researcher Mobility, C. Cobo, OXF)
1. IA1 Facilitation of Researcher Mobility
Kick-off Meeting
Brussels, 21-22 December 2011
:Cristobalof SpeakerOxford Internet Institute (OXF)
Name Cobo & & Affiliation (Acronym)
Network of
FP7-ICT-2011.1.6-288021 EINS Excellence in
Internet Science
2. IA1 Objectives
This activity aims to increase ties to
transnational research promoting
interdisciplinary academic networks
knowledge between institutions.
IA1 targets both members of the consortium,
as well as researchers not affiliated with any
partner.
IA1 aims to strength cooperation and joint
research activities, broadening the horizons of
researchers and promote co-advising of PhD
students and young researchers.
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011
3. WP Tasks
Task I1.1 Mapping the field (OXF,
EPFL)
Task I1.2 Identification of interested
participants (OXF, EPFL)
Task I1.3 Development of information
resources for promoting the inter-
institutional collaboration (OXF, EPFL)
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011
4. WP Detailed Workplan
Task I1.1 Mapping the field (OXF, EPFL)
Online institutional survey to outline the
partner’s academic expertise, JRA activities,
their recent or current research (academic
strength), institutional research groups, PhD
programmes, existence of an institutional
mobility department/initiatives, etc.
The survey will allow to collect information about
interdisciplinary research conducted by each
partner, identifying thus the available resources
and contact details to foster the research
mobility among the partners.
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011
5. WP Detailed Workplan
Task I1.2 Identification of interested participants (OXF,
EPFL)
Online individual survey of PhD students, young
researches or external people, interested parties
and faculty in participating. This instrument will be
used to identify the interest (research, expertise,
skills, profile) of potential participants.
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011
6. WP Detailed Workplan
Task I1.3 Development of information resources for
promoting the inter-institutional collaboration (OXF, EPFL)
Facilitate the links and communication between
institutions/departments/JRA and the potential participants.
Faculty members will be encourage to co-advise those
PhD students, young researchers or other participants.
Relevant information and assistance will be provided to
mobility candidates (online tool to identify the best mobility
opportunities available in EINS; new calls for ‘visiting
scholar or student’) to facilitate the mobility experience.
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011
7. WP Action List for the 1st Year
Design of the online surveys and mobility platform.
Application of the institutional and individual survey.
Compilation of the information.
Release of the platforms (results).
Contact and connect partners and participants to facilitate
the mobility.
1st report about information of the existing research mobility
initiatives.
1.1.1 WORK PLAN TIMETABLE
Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
IA1-Facilitation of Researcher Mobility
I1.1-Mapping the field
I1.2-Identification of interested participants
I1.3-Development of information resources for promoting the inter-institutional collaboration
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011
8. Interdependencies with other WPs
All the partners will have to fulfill the survey
and prepare reports if they preform has
hosting institutions.
Close communication with the leaders of the
JRA, the EINS website (SEA1) will facilitate
the mobility of (internal or external)
participants.
Participants of the research mobility are
expected to collaborate in the JRAs and
present their results in the ‘summer schools’
(IA2).
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011
9. WP Impact
Research mobility is particularly important in
promoting knowledge flows and ensuring a
diverse and highly skilled workforce that has
the capacity to respond to opportunities and
challenges in the creation of the Internet
Science.
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011
10. Issues to be discussed and decided
Reports required from the hosting institution
and the mobility participant.
Level of autonomy of each partner
(selection of the best candidate and
spending of the budget).
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011