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Internet2 Community Strategic Plan - Building a Collaborative Future

The Internet2 Community Strategic Plan outlines goals, strategies, and tasks to advance networking for scholars and researchers, focusing on innovation and partnership. It aims to ensure access to advanced networking capabilities for cyberinfrastructure-enabled discovery.

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Internet2 Community Strategic Plan - Building a Collaborative Future

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  1. The Internet2 CommunityStrategic Plan(2nd draft) Overview Internet2 Strategic Plan

  2. Outline • Who is the plan for? • Steps in creating the plan • Structure of the plan • Key Components of the Plan • Next Steps Internet2 Strategic Plan

  3. Who is this plan for? • Us, the Community: • To guide the entire community on what we will do and how we will do it • Including (but not only) the Internet2 Management and Staff Strategic Plan Preamble Internet2 Strategic Plan

  4. Steps in Brief Internet2 Strategic Plan

  5. Plan Philosophy • Keep it strategic, short, readable • By strategic, we mean to define goals, strategies, and key tasks • Many key components will follow the plan, once it is mature • Assessment metrics and process, financial analysis, etc • Demands strong advisory councils with solid ties into the broader community Internet2 Strategic Plan

  6. Plan Structure • Preamble • Vision • Mission • Goals • Strategies • Tasks • Next Steps Internet2 Strategic Plan

  7. Plan Structure • Preamble – frame the document and who it is for • Vision – what we want to become (aspirational) • Mission – what we do • Goals – what we must achieve broadly to realize our vision • Strategies – Ways in which we can achieve our goals • Tasks – specific, assessable actions that are both part of our strategies and contribute to our goals. • Next Steps – Doing the real work Internet2 Strategic Plan

  8. Vision in brief • Member-led organization • Innovation, collaboration, shared infrastructure • Focusing on demanding requirements of research community • To advance Internet at large • To improve education, health care, our communities • National success comes from partnership • members, regional partnerships, corporate collaborators, government, and international partners Internet2 Strategic Plan

  9. Mission • To ensure that our scholars and researchers have access to the most advanced networking capabilities required for the next generation of cyberinfrastructure-enabled, collaborative discovery. Internet2 Strategic Plan

  10. Four Goals – I, II • Design, operate, and continually enhance the world’s leading research and education network. • Provide researchers and scholars with the tools and support they need to envision and execute the next generation of transformational, cyberinfrastructure-enabled discovery. Internet2 Strategic Plan

  11. Four Goals – III, IV • Maintain vigorous partnership, outreach, and advocacy programs to jointly develop, promote, and share the benefits of cyberinfrastructure within the communities in which we work and live. • Operate as an exemplary membership organization with financial transparency, engaged member participation at all levels, and a focus on achieving shared objectives articulated through participatory governance and continuous assessment. Internet2 Strategic Plan

  12. Eight Strategies - Topics • National backbone and services, with partners and members • End-user access to tools and services above network layer for the transformation of research, teaching, etc. • Leadership, partnership, and advocacy in middleware • Enabling network research Internet2 Strategic Plan

  13. Eight Strategies - Topics • Primary voice of academic community for network- and middleware-enabled cyberinfrastructure • Member-driven advocacy program to advance CI in support of member missions • Bridge to corporate sector • Internet2 as a community that works effectively together Internet2 Strategic Plan

  14. Next Steps - I • This is only a 2nd draft. Your dialog and input today are critical to re-inventing Internet2 • With your input, develop a full community draft • Present to I2 Board for adoption • Then the real work begins… Internet2 Strategic Plan

  15. Next Steps - II • Then the real work begins… • Community-driven process of planning, consensus-building, and continuous reassessment • I2 Management and Staff Operational Plans and Budgets • Transparent community-driven program and financial assessment • Leadership from Board, Advisory Councils, and Members in communicating within and without Internet2 Strategic Plan

  16. Re-inventing Internet2 Internet2 Strategic Plan

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