Thursday, May 2, 2013

Multiple opportunities of interest to CHASS researchers

Colleagues, the following list was provided by Carol Ashcroft. There are opportunities for CHASS across all these areas. Please share with me your plans to pursue these opportunities.



Following are 10 opportunities related to Internet freedom, open society, infrastructure for access, 3D storage of cultural data and big data.  All were identified by a Pivot funding search.

1.  Open Society Foundation  
Arab Regional Office
http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/arab-regional-office

2.  U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Request for Statements of Interest: Internet Freedom Programs

3.  The Internet Society

4.  National Science Foundation
Civil Infrastructure Systems
engineering of infrastructure systems for resilience and sustainability....  Areas of interest include intra- and inter-physical, information and behavioral dependencies of infrastructure systems, infrastructure management, construction engineering, and transportation systems.  Special emphasis is on the design, construction, operation, and improvement of infrastructure networks with a focus on systems engineering and design, performance management, risk analysis, life-cycle analysis, modeling and simulation, behavioral and social considerations not excluding other methodological areas or the integration of methods.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13352  [Note: I served as program officer in the division that manages this program, and have greater than usual familiarity with it. If you'd like to know more, let me know.]

5.  The U.S.-Japan Foundation

6.  NEH

7.  NIST
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Pilots Cooperative Agreement Proram
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=218434

8.  DOE
Scientific Collaborations at Extreme-Scale

9.  NSF
Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering

10.  U.S. Department of the Interior
3D High Definition Digital Cultural Resource Documentation, Interpretation, Website Development and Archival Storage