Fostering Close Collaborations Among Stakeholders

To help ensure a sustainable future beyond the initial project timeline, we will also align the development of our software infrastructure with the needs and use cases of researchers and municipal agencies, using Chicago, Seattle, and NYC as test case example. In Y1 and Y2, workshops will be held in NYC. The experience from these workshops will inform the design of the subsequent workshops to be held in Seattle focusing on accessibility, and Chicago focusing on urban planning and sustainability. A final workshop to draw together themes and experiences will be held in NYC. Each workshop will have a principal local stakeholder partner, but will additionally draw on the expertise of the collaborators that have demonstrated a keen interest in our outcomes.

Education and Mentoring Activities

We will implement an internship program to host graduate students from collaborating groups at our institutions. The interns will work in close collaboration with OSCUR’s software engineers and PIs and participate in the team’s meetings. In doing so, our goals are to (1) better align our development goals with the
actual requirements from domain experts, (2) stimulate the usage of OSCUR by the urban science community, and (3) disseminate knowledge about software development and urban computing.

Curriculum development

We will leverage the project’s outcomes to develop new courses and update existing ones taught by the PIs.