Infrastructure Supporting the Mission: Core Platform

Christine Geith, Ph.D.Assistant Provost & Executive Director, MSUglobal

Global Food System SymposiaEast Lansing, MI August 23, 2013

msuglobal.msu.edu

msuglobal.msu.edu

MSUglobal is a Michigan State University innovation and strategy hub that assists faculty in creating, facilitating and implementing impactful projects that lead to new research and funding opportunities and enhance the reputation of the university community.

MSUglobal is an entrepreneurial unit in the Office of the Provost reporting to the Graduate School.

msuglobal.msu.edu

Upcoming Events

Sept. 9 – Fanning the Flames – A discussion of MOOCs at Michigan State University with faculty who have piloted them

Sept. 19 – Reception for artist Toby A. Ten Eyck, “Inspired By Color”

Sept. 25 – Igniting Innovation – 8:30 a.m. to noon, Kellogg Center, Lincoln Room

GCFSI Core Platform: Opportunity

New web-based technologies and increasing information about how people learn, connect and share offer an opportunity to rethink community website and knowledge sharing. Communities where people want to be a part of growing knowledge based community contributing to and learning from each other using tools which are engaging and help people relate to each other and to the tasks they need to accomplish.

GCFSI Core Platform: Goal

We want to build relationships that in turn make it easy to find and use resources and people and help move a community ahead in its thinking while uniting and connecting its members with a united purpose.

GCFSI Core Platform: Functions

enable a "home" base environmentbuild people relationships - find them, contact them, etc. build resource relationships - find them, use them, add moreenable ways to relate resources and peopleenable members to create stuff for other people to useguiding principles of openness

open source softwareopen file formatsopen educational content open communities

Building on the shoulders of success

Food Safety Knowledge Network (USAID, Hewlett Foundation, WB, WTO)

http://fskntraining.org/

AgShare (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)http://www.oerafrica.org/agshare

GCFSI Core Platform: Goals

1. Knowledge sharing will create robust connections between our identified audiences and foster idea exchange as a means of building the GCFSI network strength

2.  MSU will lead the HESN in this arena

NETWORKS OFNETWORKSStrategic PartnershipsCommunity Engagement