Communication and Information Exchange

First task is to create a space where people can propose contributions or ideas:

• Rudy’s suggested Characterize Air Pollution over India subcontinent
• developing a prototype air quality decision support system for Indian air quality management activities was suggested for the proposal

Tools/Methods

• Meetings/Telecons/Video chat – the ESIP AQ group meets every other week with telecon where people share ideas
  • Telecon/web meeting – GEO Pilot used this method. allows displaying the workspace and facilitates the group learning how to use the space.
• List-serv allows people to subscribe and have a 1-many conversation

• One improvement that we have added is the ability to record and share artifacts.
  • Collaborative Workspace that :
    • Identifies the people that are interested in participating
    • Gives a place for capturing ideas, artifacts
    • Telecon notes,
    • Presentations
    • Projects that the group has done
    • pulls together the resources that the group has already created: papers, presentations, collaborative activities already occurring, discussion from e-mail to web
    • Needs: a curator – someone that is willing to transfer material and encourage the group to use the space.
  • Great thing about the workspace is it’s flexible. Downside is it’s flexible.
  • To keep track of content:
    • For different artifacts we have different templates
    • Presentations,
    • Telecons
    • Datasets
    • AQ Events
    • We use tags in these templates so that we can create lists automatically