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CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond

• Struggling gold company went to the masses and open-sourced a site

• Mass collaboration found more gold that company could in previous proprietary attempts

• Gave away data and got back a $ 9 billion company

Wikinomics

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Happy Feet

Lord of the Rings surplus processors created New Zealand Super Computer Centre (NZSC)

NZSC opened Texas office with oil and gas company Stillwater

Indian seismic processing company partnership that will rent out surplus to ‘Bollywood’ movie companies

What is Going on Here?

Web 2.0

Enterprise 2.0

Work 2.0

Office 2.0

Management 2.0

Cyberinfrastructure 2.0

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Industry Engagement

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Overnight...

Almost overnight business and research became:

– Turbo-charged

– Technology-enabled

– Flatter

– Value-add focused

– Networked

– Virtual

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Business and Research

We...

• Leverage change

• Leverage technology

• Develop core competencies and functions

• Partner to add value


Business and Research Requires Infrastructure

Business and Research


Infrastructure...

is changing

Business...

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Supply Chain

“Location” is often becoming less and less relevant in the supply chain

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Value Chain

We rely on infrastructure to move rawmaterials to higher value states.e.g. logistics, arts, equities, manufacturing

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Alberta CI Investments


CI 1.0

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE


Integration, convergence, sharing, publishing, personalization, communication, collaboration, virtualization

CI 2.0

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

Business Case...

Increased ROI

Decreased time to market

Disruption

Opportunity

Reach customers in new ways.

CYBERAAlberta Cyberinfrastructure for Innovation

Cybera will help build cyberinfrastructure and promote innovation in Alberta

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Collaboration

Strength of Week Ties (Granovetter, 1973)

• Weak ties may be more important for innovation and knowledge sharing

• Strong ties between people arise from long-term, frequent, and sustained interactions; weak ties from infrequent and more casual ones.

• The ‘problem’ with strong ties is that if persons A and B have a strong tie, they’re also likely to be strongly tied to all members of each other’s networks.

• This might be a good thing in many ways, but it’s bad news if A needs a piece of knowledge that she can’t find inside her own friendship or B’s circle.

• If A and C have a weak tie, however, many of C’s friends are likely to be strangers to A, and so are good resources as she looks to inform herself.

(Andrew McAfee, 2007)

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond LONG TERM VISION

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CYBERA SERVICES

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Action Items

Need cyberinfrastructure?1. Engage in a pilot project2. Become a Cybera member

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond PILOT PROJECTS

GeoChronos - Dr. Arturo SanchezResearch: Impacts of land use/cover change on biodiversity loss and habitat fragmentation

Cyberinfrastructure: Automate manual tasks in retrieving, processing and graphing remote sensing data

Increased Productivity: Graphs created in 1-2 weeks from 2-4 months

Deferred Operating: Additional staff not needed to create graphs

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond PILOT PROJECTS

Research: Monitoring carbon exchange to model climate change and study resource management.

Cyberinfrastructure: Improve workflow and automate computation.

Deferred Operating: saving $50,000 a year by removing the need for a programmer.

Deferred Capital: Increase machine usage.

EcoSys Experiment Engine - Dr. Robert Grant

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Industry Pilot Projects

• Impact industry in Alberta government priority areas of ICT, Life Sciences, Energy and Nanotechnology

• Looking for return on technology investment improvements

• Looking for new ways to reach customers

• Extend benefits to others

• Advancing state-of-art


How can Cybera help?

1.Cybera can supply or facilitate access to a "test-bed" for CI developments.

2.Cybera can connect you with CI technical experts

3.Cybera can arrange access to CI resources, such as HPC, high-speed networks, middle-ware development

4.Cybera can provide financial support for CI development



Attention Businesses and Entrepreneurs!

Powering Web 2.0 Pilot Project CompetitionDo you have a great idea or an existing application that requires:

Computing & StorageHigh Speed Networks

SensorsVisualization MiddlewareCommunity


Cybera is looking for partners and participants for the

Powering Web 2.0 Pilot Project Competition

Inside CyberaPatrick Mann, CTO

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Contact

Trevor Doerksen

Cybera Inc. 403-668-7039

[email protected]

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