Overview

The SEW CG coordinates the activities of the Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development Program Component Area (PCA).

The activities funded under the SEW PCA focus on the co-evolution of IT and social and economic systems as well as the interactions between people and IT devices and capabilities; the workforce development needs arising from the growing demand for workers who are highly skilled in information technology; and the role of innovative IT applications in education and training. SEW also supports efforts to speed the transfer of networking and IT R&D results to the policymaking and IT user communities at all levels in government and the private sector. A key goal of SEW research and dissemination activities is to enable individuals and society to better understand and anticipate the uses and consequences of IT, so that this knowledge can inform policymaking, IT designs, the IT user community, and to broaden participation in IT education and careers.

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 2007 Supplement to the President's Budget