| NSF Org: |
OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | September 9, 2014 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 7, 2019 |
| Award Number: | 1451045 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Kevin Thompson
kthompso@nsf.gov (703)292-4220 OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | October 1, 2014 |
| End Date: | March 31, 2021 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $3,732,343.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $5,939,839.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2017 = $626,750.00 FY 2019 = $1,580,746.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
1776 E 13TH AVE EUGENE OR US 97403-1905 (541)346-5131 |
| Sponsor Congressional District: |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
OR US 97403-1299 |
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Performance Congressional District: |
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| NSF Program(s): | International Res Ret Connect |
| Primary Program Source: |
01001718DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) develops network communications infrastructure and local engineering capacity in areas of the world where inadequate research and education network connectivity poses a significant barrier to collaborations with US scientists and educators. By helping to establish and improve underlying cyberinfrastructure, both physical (network connectivity) and human (technical capacity), NSRC plays an effective role for the US science community by helping to incubate and build sustainable Internet infrastructure to enable international scientific research.
The broader impacts of NSRC's activities are global in scope. NSRC's focus on teaching and training about network design and operations, combined with technically supporting international colleagues, results in the development of stable computer networks, managed by local hands, in many countries all over the world. NSRC achieves this through targeted capacity building activities and partnerships with universities, Internet service providers, industry, government and supranational agencies in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America-Caribbean, and North America.
NSRC exemplifies the NSF's stated strategic goal of "encouraging collaborative research and education across organizations, disciplines, sectors, and international boundaries." Through coordinated training programs, NSRC builds institutional capacity to support the research community, and leverages US research infrastructure to bring value to international researchers and educators. Through hands-on, lab-based curricula and a train-the-trainers approach, NSRC provides technical capacity development to thousands of network engineers working in hundreds of R&E institutions to augment networking expertise in regions of interest to NSF and the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) community.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) develops network communications infrastructure and local engineering capacity in areas of the world where inadequate research and education network connectivity poses a significant barrier to collaborations with U.S. scientists and educators. By helping build physical network infrastructure and the human technical capacity to maintain and upgrade the networks, NSRC assists the U.S. science community by fostering state-of-the-art global cyberinfrastructure (CI), ubiquitous access to global scientific communities, remote scientific instruments, and shared data resources. NSRC exemplifies the NSF's stated strategic goal of "encouraging collaborative research and education across organizations, disciplines, sectors, and international boundaries."
The broader impacts of NSRC's activities are global in scope. Through coordinated training programs, NSRC builds institutional capacity to support the research community and leverages U.S. research infrastructure to bring value to international collaborators in regions of interest to NSF and the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) community. The science enabling activities of the NSRC assisted in the formation of National Research and Education Network (NRENs) in 50+ countries, as well as significant contributions to the regional RENs in Africa, Eurasia-Pacific, Latin America-Caribbean and the Middle East. In addition to technical training via network operator groups, NREN communities, and helping establish shared infrastructure such as Internet eXchange Points (IXPs), NSRC emphasizes Direct Engineering Assistance (DEA) to improve operational infrastructure, resulting in better and faster networks.
Regarding intellectual merit, NSRC's work advances knowledge and skills within the fields of networking, telecommunications and information technology. By solving specific problems with people in the research and education environments of developing economies that seek to work with their counterparts in the U.S., NSRC has disseminated deep knowledge of network technologies and best practices in numerous research communities around the world.
Some alumni of NSRC's training programs are longtime collaborators and Internet pioneers in their countries who have shifted to careers in their national governments, including important roles such as Minister of Science and Technology, Minister of Communications, Minister of Higher Education, Regulator of the national telecommunications agency, and other prominent leadership roles of public service in their countries. NSRC maintains good working relationships with many of them for technical and policy discussions, putting special emphasis on support for scientific institutions.
With an emphasis on workforce development, NSRC has provided numerous training and experiential learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Oregon and other U.S. universities who seek real-world computer networking experience. Upon graduation, NSRC student employees have received job offers from entities such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Nike, Rand Corporation, and Microsoft plus numerous start-up companies and universities that have recognized the value of their programming and computer networking skills.
Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) at the University of Oregon
https://nsrc.org/
https://learn.nsrc.org/
Last Modified: 07/22/2021
Modified by: Steven Huter
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