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This article describes experiences and lessons learned from the Trusted CI project, funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to serve the community as the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (CCoE). Trusted CI is an effort to address cybersecurity for the open science community through a single organization that provides leadership, training, consulting, and knowledge to that community. The article describes the experiences and lessons learned of Trusted CI regarding both cybersecurity for open science and managing the process of providing centralized services to a broad and diverse community.
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The Hour of Cyberinfrastructure (Hour of CI): Early Findings from Pilot Study to Build Cyber Literacy for GIScience
This paper provides an overview of the Hour of Cyberinfrastructure (Hour of CI), a project creating a suite of self-paced, hour-long lessons aimed at helping learners in the areas of spatial, social, and environmental sciences take their first steps in the path toward cyberinfrastructure. Using collaboratively developed lessons written in Jupyter Notebooks, the Hour of CI aims to lower barriers to cyberinfrastructure for next-generation scientists and scholars from broad and diverse backgrounds. Early findings based on a pilot of four lessons suggest our approach has created engaging and appropriately challenging lessons for diverse learners. The project will continue developing lessons to help learners build cyber literacy for GIScience and prepare them to tackle global problems.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1829708
- PAR ID:
- 10339648
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2021 IEEE/ACM Ninth Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing (EduHPC)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 9 to 15
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/EduHPC54835.2021.00007
