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Collaborative E-Science for Spatial Decision-Making in Distributed Environments (ECOSENSUS)

Principal investigator - Dr Andrea Berardi (a.berardi@open.ac.uk)

Co-Principal Investigators - Dr Jay Mistry, Dr Simon Buckingham-Shum, Dr Martin Reynolds, Prof. Werner Ulrich

Start Date - August 2005

Duration - 18 months

Location - Open University

Website - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/ecosensus/

This project aims to be the first e-science initiative on developing and testing a distributed computational infrastructure for supporting spatial decision making within an international natural resource management context. The research will be carried out through the production and presentation of a problem based course and will use distinctive social science methodologies for investigating the evolution and impact of the project. The research method is based on Soft Systems approaches for information systems development, regarded as one of the few more effective approaches to emphasise the social component of information systems development. The project will deliver enhanced grid-based open source software tools, open source e-science capacity building resources, a human-centred understanding of the application of e-science tools, and will undertake a range of dissemination activities aimed at supporting ESRC's e-social science strategy.

Presentations

The ECOSENSUS Project: Co-Evolving Tools, Practices and Open Content for Participatory Natural Resource Management
A. Berardi, S. Ganapathy, M. Reynolds, W. Ulrich, M. Bachler, S. Buckingham-Shum, Open University
C. Bernard, University of Guyana, Guyana
J. Mistry, Royal Holloway, University of London
2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 28 ¨C 30 June 2006

Presentation

Publications

The development of an open content course on natural resource management: A virtual team production between Guyana and the UK
A. Berardi, M. Bachler, C.Bernard, S. Buckingham-Shum, S. Ganapathy, J. Mistry, M. Reynolds,W. Ulrich
The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT), Special Issue on the Caribbean, August 2006. Vol 2, No.2.

The ECOSENSUS Project: Co-Evolving Tools, Practices and Open Content for Participatory Natural Resource Management
A. Berardi, S. Ganapathy, M. Reynolds, W. Ulrich, M. Bachler, S. Buckingham-Shum, Open University
C. Bernard, University of Guyana, Guyana.
J. Mistry, Royal Holloway, University of London
Published in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 28 - 30 June 2006

Paper