SEW Program Component Area

Interagency Working Group on IT R&D

Coordinating Groups and Teams (click to expand)

HCI&IM	Human Computer Interaction and Information Management
HCSS	High Confidence Software and Systems
HEC	High End Computing
LSN	Large Scale Networking
• JET	Joint Engineering Team
• MAGIC	Middleware And Grid Infrastructure Coordination Team
• NRT	Network Research Team
SDP	Software Design and Productivity
SEW	Social, Economic, and Workforce Implications of IT

High End Computing Revitalization Task Force(HECRTF) Outreach

President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)

About the NCO/IT R&D

Congressional Information

Schedule of JET and MAGIC Meetings

News/Media Coverage

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Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development
Program Component Area

(Updated October 2003)

	Overview The SEW Program Component Area (PCA) addresses the complex interactions of information technologies with people and society. SEW research interests include the nature and dynamics of IT impacts on organizations and work, business and commerce, education, communications, research, and in the home; the implications of IT for workforce training and development; and development of innovative models for IT education and IT applications for learning. SEW research is a new, highly multidisciplinary field. Emerging SEW-related research and development activities are scattered widely across academic disciplines and institutions, laboratories, government agencies, and the private sector. A key goal of the SEW PCA's Coordinating Group is to encourage communications and organizational linkages for information sharing among SEW researchers and making SEW findings available to the broader research and policymaking communities.
	Conferences and workshops June 11, 2003, Paul A. Gottilieb from DOE briefed SEW, SDP, and HCSS Coordinating Groups on Open Source Software (OSS) licensing issues: "Open Source Software, Legal Business Issues" In March 2002, the SEW Coordinating Group will hold the first of a series of national SEW workshops and conferences. The aim of these meetings is to spur discussions between SEW researchers and government and private-sector representatives who make decisions and formulate policies about IT and IT applications.
	SEW materials SEW research is a key component of the National Science Foundation's Information Technology Research program, begun in FY 2000. For a list of SEW ITR awards in FY 2000, please see http://www.itr.nsf.gov/highlights2000.html#_Social_and_Economic and http://www.itr.nsf.gov/highlights2000.html#_IT_Education_and. For the FY 2002 ITR Program Announcement, see http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf01149 For information on NASA's Learning Technologies Project, please see http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/ For information about the advanced biomedical informatics training programs of NIH's National Library of Medicine, please see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/curr_inst_grantees.html, http://www.lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/mitp/training.html and http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/trainedu.html Please also see the FY 2004 Blue Book for more information
	For more SEW related information, see the following: FY 2004 Blue Book