Possible+Projects

(see also: Scientific Foundations and Challenges)** We believe that successful research challenges should have three key elements: -- compelling national need (healthcare, national security, community safety, education, innovation, etc.) -- scientific foundation based on theories and research questions (privacy, reciprocity, trust, motivation, etc.) -- computer science research challenges (security, privacy protection, scalability, visualization, distributed data, network analysis, etc.)
 * Research Challenges:

These research challenge ideas need to be refined to make the three elements explicit:

A preliminary lists of potential Social Participation projects:


 * 1) Nation of Neighbors (Art Hanson)


 * 2) National Deliberative Process (Harry Hochheiser)


 * 3) Developmental and analysis of an Encyclopedia of Life (Jenny Preece and Cynthia Parr)


 * 4) Climate Collaboratorium (Tom Malone)

> (Gerhard Fischer) These are additional ideas that may yet become the focus of a project:
 * 5) Beyond Technologies Alone: Sustainable Energy Initiatives as Socio-Technical Systems
 * 6) Enabling Healthy Living (Derek Hansen and Gary Marchionini)
 * Cross-cultural cross-language analysis of Wikipedia versions
 * Social Participation to Promote Education
 * Citizen Corps for Community Preparedness
 * Government Applications of Social Media
 * Smart Power Grids
 * Breaking Borders: making the "national" initiative into an "international" initiative.

Alex Pentland offered us two other visions
 * Society's Nervous System
 * Health