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Resilience of the Research Enterprise During the COVID-19 Crisis: Proceedings of a Workshop Series - in Brief
Resilience of the Research Enterprise During the COVID-19 Crisis: Proceedings of a Workshop Series - in Brief
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. Brief summaries are grouped below under three thematic areas: coping with economic uncertainty; considering security challenges; and mobilizing resources and transforming work environments.1 COPING WITH ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY Economic Impacts of COVID-19 COVID-19 has affected millions of Americans' employment, while re‐exposing significant economic inequality and issues related to health disparities and the digital divide, noted Al Grasso (former CEO of MITRE Corporation and GUIRR industry co-chair)
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Spriggs said many job losses are becoming permanent. In reference to the debate around whether the additional $600 benefit provided by the CARES Act diverts people from seeking work, he refuted the assertion and noted data from Census Bureau surveys showed households -- particularly of Black, Hispanic, and Asian workers -- remain nervous about future job loss and seek permanent wages.
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Presentation at the workshop of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable on "Resilience of the Research Enterprise During the COVID-19 Crisis: Economic Impacts of the Pandemic and Projections for Recovery," held August 12, 2020. Spriggs also commented on the impacts of COVID-19 on students and the STEM pipeline.
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Digital tools can complement travel, equipment, and infrastructure but there may be uneven impact on the productivity of research, depending on the field. "Just as COVID-19 does not affect all people the same, it also does not affect all scientific domains uniformly." CONSIDERING SECURITY CHALLENGES Science Communication and Information Disorder Effective communication about recommendations and evidence-based policy are critical during crises, yet the pandemic has revealed gaps in communicating science in a partisan environment, noted Laurie Leshin (Worchester Polytechnic Institute and GUIRR university co-chair)
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Cybersecurity To open the July 14 workshop on cybersecurity vulnerabilities related to the pandemic, moderator Diana Burley (American University) noted the pandemic has enhanced risks related to cybersecurity including public concern and confusion; a dependency on the digital infrastructure; insider threats triggered by job insecurity, anger, or lack of knowledge; and different levels of awareness about threats and behavioral drivers.
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cybercrime quadrupled during the pandemic, and Europol reported that cybercrime became the most visible criminal activity.15 Burley suggested that this changing threat landscape requires institutions across the research enterprise to consider and evolve security practices. Brandon Wales (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency [CISA]
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ISACs collect, analyze and disseminate actionable threat information to their members and provide members with tools to mitigate risks and enhance resiliency.19 The Financial Services ISAC was established as a non-profit corporation in 1999 to assure the resilience and continuity of the global financial services infrastructure through sharing threat and vulnerability information, conducting coordinated contingency planning exercises, managing rapid response communications, conducting education and training programs, and fostering collaborations with and among other key sectors and government agencies.20 Abrahamson responded shared information about vulnerabilities within a community like the financial services sector must be leveraged and used for good, and not retribution. Wales said the Financial ISAC works because organizations can put the information to actionable use, but most sectors do not have similar levels of homogeneity and security investment.
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Even national supply chains proved inflexible, as fifty percent of manufacturing value consumed in the United States is produced abroad. Lead firms design processes with many small players with narrow capabilities and less resilience.
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Grasso asked whether international organizations can help attain an acceptable stasis in the global environment. LaPlante noted China is active in international standards bodies, and in his view, the solution to competing with China is more U.S.
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Valentine suggested participants consider if their organization would fit better with a synchronous or asynchronous knowledge-management model. Finally, organizations function as operating systems.26 The change to remote work means more business is conducted online and thus more data are captured on platforms.27 She recommended participants develop a data science strategy to make use of newly accessible virtual work-related data.
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All presenters noted bright spots in the transition to virtual work environments across the research enterprise, despite the accompanying multi-faceted challenges. NEW MODELS OF OPEN RESEARCH, DATA, AND COLLABORATION Starting in mid-March, government science advisors from countries around the world urged scientific publishers to make COVID-related articles free and widely available.
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By 2019–2020, Semantic Scholar had more than 186 million papers, 550 partnerships, and 8 million active monthly users. On March 6, the White House chief technology officer requested creation of a corpus of papers to create a machine-readable COVID-19 dataset.31 Just 10 days later, AI2 and many partners released CORD-19 with 24,000 papers.
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Etzioni agreed the current scholarly communication system is arcane, but said social changes, such as related to tenure, are a prerequisite. He said Semantic Scholar works with current reality, but applauded Mons's vision.
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Marilyn Baker, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, served as the review coordinator. SPONSORS: This workshop was supported by the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable membership, National Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
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