Copyright (c) 2010 Policy Studies Organization All rights reserved. http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit Recent documents in The Dupont Summit on Science & Technology Policy en-us Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:50:04 PST 3600 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/17 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/17 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:45:00 PST Lunch and refreshments will be served in the Ball Room. http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/16 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/16 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:15:00 PST Chair: William F. Brinkman, Director of the Office of Science, Department of Energy Dr. Brinkman will describe the energy challenges facing the Nation, discuss the current U.S. energy system, and outline the Department of Energy's Strategic investments in the fundamental scientific research necessary to overcome some of our greatest energy technology challenges. Entrance is through the Cosmos Club gate, the first right-hand entrance on Florida Avenue north of the intersection with Massachusetts Avenue. The auditorium entrance is to the left of the gate. The Cosmos Club is within walking distance of the Dupont Circle Metro stop (Q Street exit), the Connecticut Avenue bus routes (L2, L4), and the Massachusetts Avenue bus routes (N2, N4). William F. Brinkman http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/15 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/15 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:30:00 PST Chair: Jay Familant Reinventing Science Education for the 21st Century. Abstract: This presentation is intended to engage partipicants about the current state of affairs of science education in the United States.  Particpants will actively share and explore their experiences and understanding of science education.  Subsequently, the facilitator will explain current teaching trends that are occuring at the K-12 school systems as well as at the postsecondary level.   In addition, the National Science Board STEM Education recommendations directed at the Obama administration will be reviewed and discussed.  Also, a summary of the Opportunity Equation report from the Carenegie Institute for Advanced Study Commission on Mathematics and Science will be included for discussion.  After further elaboration, audience members will discover the critical need for all schools, colleges and universities to integrate the elements of constructivism in science pedagogy in order to successfully accomplish the goals set forth by the Obama administration.  In closing, participants will see the need for public policy reforms to close the gap between K-12 and post-secondary institutions in an effort to make science education more viable for future generations. Hernando Martinez Reading Math: Far from the Rhetoric, Closer to the Reality. Some secondary and college students in New York City do not have strong fundamental skills in Mathematics, especially college students. If a person does not know the basic principles of arithmetic and mathematics, it is impossible that he/she can understand more complex topics. Perhaps, it will be difficult for that person to understand other sciences and disciplines such as Chemistry, Geology, Statistics, Physics, Biology, and Informatics Technology as well. As a result, that person will not be competitive in the future regardless of whether he/she has landed a job in those areas. The most significant aspect is that he/she can deter any advance in a scientific team’s activity. While I have been working as a Mathematics and Statistics tutor at two different universities for five years, and also, in the Supplemental Educational Services from No Child Left Behind Act, for three years, I have been developing a mathematical method entitled Reading Math. According to a normal cognitive process, in theories such as Bloom's Taxonomy (2001), we need to follow simple steps in order to gain objectives: knowledge (understanding), evaluation, analysis, application, and creation as the maximum goal. For this simple reason, I must make a creative contribution to American society.  As a result, the goal of this paper is simple and clear. Using the strategies for reading can be productive in order to teach math processes to students..I consider that the first public policy to address Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Issues, is to improve the education system, especially by using methods that students know and like to use. At times, we use innovations in methodologies without understanding basic methods; when the basic understanding is not there, these innovations will be opposite to good results. The Reading Math method is appropriate for the case of Science Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) education. For example, by applying the use of strategies for reading, our society can teach and learn math, more efficiently. On the other hand, some people have believed for many years that educational reform will be based on money because low-income communities can understand less than higher-income communities. It is not definite to generalize some results such as low knowledge or high violence based on poverty alone. In theory, all students can achieve  high levels of education when they have the opportunity to demonstrate publicly.  The point of the statistics from research and authorities fails to show that students in low-income communities are not getting those opportunities to learn at the same rate as those students in more comfortable communities. I never assume that poor people can’t achieve high educational targets.  However, effective public policy will be based on the cognitive process rather than on a budget. It is important to change attitudes and behaviors of teachers and students even if it will not be seen for at least two generations. This presentation will demonstrate the point of view of fostering a cognitive process. Some teachers will agree with this paper while others will be contrary. Only the future economy and development of people in the United States may say the truth. Jay Familant http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/14 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/14 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:30:00 PST Chair: Peter Metzger, David McCue, Kelsey Murphy, and Soshana Clerizier The Obama Administration and the International Challenge of Tuberculosis. Abstract: One third of the world's population is living with tuberculosis (TB), and an estimated 3.6% of these 2.2 billion cases involve multidrug-resistant strains of TB (MDR-TB).  Tuberculosis is spread through the air from one person to another, and if left untreated is fatal.  Halting the spread of MDR-TB is a global health challenge, one which remains despite widespread efforts to combat it.  Lack of adherence to drug regimes by patients has been shown to propagate drug-resistant strains of TB. Treatment plans are interrupted either by patient noncompliance or by drug stock-outs, which prevent patients from acquiring the requisite drugs.   A solution lies in implementing a proven incentivized field-tested program: distributing cellular phones to improve patient adherence to treatment regimes.   We propose that the Obama Administration address this non-partisan issue and thereby establish common ground with Republicans and a “win” for his international agenda. Abby Hoffman, Vail Kohnert-Yount, and Nadia Jafar The Obama Administration and the Global Eradication of Cholera. Abstract: Until the outbreak of cholera in Haiti made world headlines, many people probably thought cholera was a disease of the past. In part, this is true in the United States and other developed nations which have not had a major cholera epidemic since the nineteenth century. In developing parts of the world, however, cholera is a persistent problem. Every year there are three to five million cases of cholera, claiming over 120,000 lives. Cholera is most prevalent in countries afflicted with extreme poverty and poor sanitation. This illness also appears in regions where it was once irrelevant, like Pakistan and Haiti where natural disasters precipitated numerous cases of cholera. We have interviewed non-governmental organizations that work to globally provide safe water and basic sanitation systems. We have completed case studies of countries that have faced cholera, and the successes and failures of their control methods. Such methods have included vaccines, oral rehydration therapy, antibiotics, and satellite monitoring. Using this research, we have concluded that the most cost-effective, long-term solution to cholera is investing in a community-led approach to build and maintain sanitary systems. By giving the community ownership over it’s own hygiene, we expect that the infrastructure will be used with more regularity and will require less American intervention to implement. The problem of global health is a non-partisan humanitarian goal.  We believe that Obama should push for investing in the global eradication of cholera.  A concerted humanitarian effort to reduce the occurrence of this disease would furbish and promote the image of the United States abroad, while saving thousands of lives. Peter Metzger http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/13 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/13 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:30:00 PST Chair: Carlos Cruz,The Washington Center; George Bush School of Government, Texas A&M University Art Stewart The New Responsibility Paradigm: Implications for Public-Private Competitiveness. Abstract: The economic meltdown, current reset, and slower than expected recovery has changed quite a bit of the American landscape and the global community at large. We are deep into a significant breach in the historic social contract of trust and confidence between peoples, institutions, and their leaders. Many instruments of our government, culture, economic, and political system have been experiencing a fundamental realignment in character and purpose, authority, impact, and connectivity. Some attribute it all to the economic crisis and the vagaries of the business cycle. This session will look at it differently. Rather than one factor or event directly causing a shift, it is more the result of collective yet seemingly unrelated phenomena unintentionally conspiring to produce fallout via a steady succession of transformational occurrences. This realignment now has us in a prolonged migration of testing, learning, and adapting. The American democracy itself is transitioning. The ambitions of organizations, especially the pursuit of profitability, must increasingly factor in public interest values apropos for their context. As corporate organizations are held more accountable for integrity-based citizenship, backed by social and community responsibility, government services and nonprofits must operate in greater commercial mode to improve value delivery and compete for resources in a global, interdependent economic system. We have transitioned from a shareholder to a stakeholder-driven society. Marketplace dynamics are now characterized by wide and often turbulent swings, driven by manic-like overconfidence (bubble cycles) or panic-laden uncertainty (corrective meltdowns). For businesses, regulatory pressures and Wall Street scrutiny demand attention against an international backdrop of volatile trade, political, and cross-cultural challenges. Markets are at once more co-dependent while also increasingly fragmented; business lifecycles are shrinking. Many leaders across the business and policy sectors now operate in an ad hoc global environment dominated by technology and driven by economic advances, political upheaval, and the dismantling of traditional cultural norms. They barely resolve one challenge before another crisis‟ pops up. Concurrently, consumers and the general public have become smarter and hyper-discerning. Stakeholder confidence in public and private institutions is fleeting. Nonprofits are no longer shielded by traditional deference. Many religious institutions are retrenching, seeking to restore the mantle of credibility that's been lost to scandal. A growing American wealth class has widened the gap between the haves and-have-nots. Dependability upon government as a competent safety net has bottomed out. All of this is driving a collective consciousness that‟s leading us to a new paradigm; the pursuit, on a continuum, of a new way of comprehending and acting on both individual and collective notions of responsibility. This New Responsibility Paradigm‟ is framed by the convergence of traditional private sector ambitions, more resourceful and empowered stakeholder entities, and greater demand for adherence to public interest values. It is premised upon new standards for transparency, accountability, competence, authenticity, and integrity in public leadership. Tom Borelli The Tea Party and Big Businesses: On Course to Collision. Art Stewart http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/11 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/11 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:45:00 PST Chair: Paul Rich, Policy Studies Organization Frank McCluskey, Executive Vice President & Provost Fred Stielow, Associate VP, Dean of Library & Educational Materials Daniel Benjamin, Department Chair of Information Technology Jennifer Staley, Director of Instructional Design Online Education and Controversy: Technology, Digital Learning, Modern Universities and Policy. Abstract: This panel will speak about online higher education as an ongoing chapter within the historical sage of the University.  In an increasingly global and technologically advance world the online learning is no longer left to the online university.  This panel will discuss topics ranging from the role of technology in course design and instruction to the impact of digital learning on the structure of the modern university. Additionally, the panelists will have a discussion about the role of American Public University System as a leader in the future for the online learning and learning communities, from the classroom to state of the art library facilities. Frank McCluskey http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/12 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/12 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:45:00 PST Chair: Michael Simpson, Senior Principal Leader Charles (Rod) Cowan, Senior Member Executive Staff Daniel Benjamin, Department Chair of Information Technology Jennifer Staley, IEEE Fellow and CSC Engineering & Scientific Solutions Program Manager Michael Simpson http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/10 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/10 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:15:00 PST Chair: David Merchant, Policy Studies Organization Daneen Borelli Government Gone Wild: Regulating Soda Exposes the Progressive Agenda to Control Lifestyle Choices. Janet Dolgin The Interface of Public Policy and Health Law as it Affects Personal Choices in Food Consumption. Barbara Pfeffer Billauer The Interface of Law and Science as it Affects Regulating Obesity as a Means of Controlling Diabetes: Assessing the Scientific Validity of the Proposed Regulations. Daneen Borelli http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/9 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/9 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:30:00 PST Chair: Paul Rich, Policy Studies Organization James A. Saunders, Thomas Burkett, Collins Jones, and Phillip Rous Science Education between Community Colleges and Four year Institutions. Abstract: As educators in Maryland we face challenges and opportunities as we establish partnerships between 2 year Community Colleges and four year Universities due to the different focus that exists between these institutions of higher learning especially in science education.  For example, several Community Colleges in Maryland have some type of applied Biotechnology major with specialized course work relevant to the Biotech industry, however, there are only a few programs at the four year Maryland Universities in Biotechnology and even those programs may not have equivalent courses.  Part of the problem that students face when entering a four year institution as a transfer student is the specialized courses taken in the Community Colleges do not have equivalent coursework at the four year institutions.  The downturned economy opened the opportunity for more students to utilized the financial benefits of obtaining a bachelors degree by spending 2 years in a Community College and then transferring to a four year University.  Are we serving these students and meeting this demand in the best way possible?  How do we reconcile the strong career focus of Community Colleges with the Academic focus of four year Universities to best serve the citizens of this state? James A. Saunders http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/8 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/8 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:30:00 PST Chair: Chris Gore, Ryerson University Chuck Manto Grid Act Impact: An Opportunity for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Communities. This discussion will review how a unanimously passed House Bill 5026 (the Grid Act) now before the Senate provides the opportunity to bring together those who care about renewable energy, peak fossil fuels, energy security, sustainable communities, homeland security and cyber security.  From the introduction of “Grid Act Impact”: 'Space-weather experts have changed their prediction of the effects of the 100-year solar storm from likely being a weeklong blackout across the East Coast through Chicago to one that could easily be yearlong, with restoration taking four–ten years. This announcement prompted a tabletop exercise in March 2010, sponsored by NOAA in Colorado, followed by an emergency management bulletin nationwide. The change in forecast was prompted by the analysis reported in recent studies such as the National Academy of Sciences 2008 Severe Space Weather Events – Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts. These spawned support for a subsequent NERC report on high-impact low-frequency events and a set of FERC reports published in January 2010: Electromagnetic Pulse – Effects on the US Power Grid.' Lisa Pettibone Local Leaders, National Stragglers: How Can the Obama Administration Aid the Implementation of Climate and Sustainability Policies? Abstract: It is no secret that U.S. national climate policy is far behind that of most developed countries in attempting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed, the lack of leadership by the United States is a major reason why the international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in December 2009 failed to reach a binding agreement. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision not to bring cap-and-trade legislation to the Senate floor before the November elections and President Obama's surprising silence on climate issues have disappointed climate policy experts who fear that time is running out to address this serious problem. It appears that it may take years before national policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions begin to be implemented. However, below the national level, state and local governments have taken a variety of actions to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, adapt their communities to a warming climate, and shift their definition of well-being from economic growth to sustainable development. Every level of government has a role to play when it comes to climate policy. If the federal government is not yet ready to implement national policies, perhaps there are other ways it can nurture and support efforts at the subnational level. This presentation aims to highlight some of the major policies and strategies implemented by regions, states, and cities, such as renewable portfolio standards, greenhouse gas inventories, efficiency measures, and sustainability indicators. It will demonstrate that progress is already made by leaders across the country in many areas. It aims to stimulate discussion and debate on how the Obama administration can support local efforts and what multilevel governance means for the future of climate policy. Simon Berkovich A New Way for Creation of Abundant Clean Energy Using the Mechanism of Quantum Non-Locality. Abstract: 1. All the available energy seems to originate from the initial impetus of the Big Bang. Acquired by the Sun, a portion of this energy is then delivered to the Earth enabling Life; some energy also traced to the Big Bang can come from nuclear transmutations. Apart from exploiting the one-time formations of the Big Bang, there is a possibility to extract energy directly from the fundamental mechanism driving the physical Universe. Said Nikola Tesla: One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe .. and the very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.  These kinds of zero-point energy prospects are briefly delineated in. One of such possibilities based on the activities of quantum vacuum virtual particles, the so-called Casimir effect, has been devised in. Misguidedly, many of the zero-point energy attempts are labeled as pseudo-science for perceived violation of the venerated law of conservation of energy. Yet the law of conservation of is not necessarily applicable to the Universe as a whole, and an alleged local violation of energy balance could be compensated in the global scale. Our suggestion relates to an uncommon source of zero-point energy - the clocking mechanism of quantum nonlocality. The concept of nonlocality is confusing: how faraway objects can instantaneously influence one another is beyond any conventional paradigm. In opinion of A. Einstein, nonlocality of the physical world is a flagrant absurd - if quantum entanglement "is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science". Recent experiments reveal further surprises of nonlocality: similarly to information signals patterns of motion can be conveyed as well, leading to the possibility for teleportation of energy. In our suggestion, the teleported energy can be amplified by parametric resonance at the clocking frequency of 1011 Hz. Being associated with workings of nonlocality, this 1011 Hz frequency exercises mysterious triggering effects in various biological objects. The presented contraption could provide unlimited clean PRIME energy (Parametric Resonance In Motion Entanglement). 2. The proposed principle of generation of PRIME energy has decisive advantages among other zero-energy approaches in terms of their practical feasibility. First, generation of PRIME energy develops as a clear-cut addition to an already essentially established effect. Parametric resonance is a universal instrument that can basically influence any physical phenomenon. Second, we got a lucid understanding of the workings of the suggested energy generation process based on our operational explanation of the mechanism of nonlocality as sliced holistic processing in the holographic Universe. At this moment of time, this  gives the only available operational explanation of the mechanism of nonlocality.Third, the surmised machinery of the PRIME energy provides the driving force for biochemistry activities. Life is a metastable state of matter, and, besides muscle workings, organisms also need a continuous inflow of energy to remain in this state.  According to, feeding and metabolism furnish negative entropy, not energy. In other words, having a meal is maintenance rather than refueling.Mimicking the workings of a muscle, the suggested construction should be effective and self-sufficient for production of energy. The underlying supposition that quantum entanglement can be affected by parametric resonance is a fundamental physics hypothesis that has to be tested independently.3.  The world community requires about 15 Terawatts for its operability. In our estimates, making use of the PRIME energy can meet this demand. To accommodate such an endeavor would require a real-estate area around 1000 square miles, i.e. a relatively small region someway about 30 miles x 30 miles. The remarkable economy of the proposed construction comes from acquiring concentrated energy in a continuous flow from 3D volume, while all other renewable sources have to meticulously harvest low-density energy trough 2D surface. The suggested method of energy generation has exclusive overall performance characteristics: • Abundance (energy can be produced incessantly in unlimited quantities) • Ecological friendliness (free of pollution effects) • Availability (energy is obtainable anywhere at any time) • Global warming (the method reduces the overhead of the nonrenewable sources) • Efficiency (no losses due to direct transformation into mechanical motion) • Compactness (energy comes from the 3D volume) • Robustness (plain requirements for construction, operation, and maintenance) Such an unbelievable performance signifies that the projected construction has not been derived from a drawing board, but appears as a discovery of some perfect thing that already exists in Nature. This existing thing is the system for control and actuation of living beings employing the operational facilities of the infrastructure of the physical world. Presumably, the situation implies that the suggested approach must be feasible and that the given opportunity for successful resolution of the energy crisis is unique. Chuck Manto http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/7 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/7 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:30:00 PST Chair: David Merchant, Policy Studies Organization Norman A. Bailey Barbara Pfeffer Billauer Gene Poteat Norman A. Bailey http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/6 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/6 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:15:00 PST Chair: Chris Gore, Ryerson University Maja Holmes Advancing Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Government-Industry Relations in Energy Policy. Abstract: With nearly fifty percent of all electricity generated in the U.S. by burning coal and the prospect of several new coal-fired power plants planned for construction, the reign of coal as a significant source of electricity is not diminishing. The dependence on coal for electricity is even greater internationally. In China alone, nearly seventy percent of electricity is generated from coal-fired power plants. The global pressure to address the anthropogenic causes of climate change through the reduction of carbon emissions is on a collision course with the continued dominance of coal-fired electricity generation. In 2003 the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched a series of initiatives to address the long-term reduction of carbon emissions from power generating sources by supporting technological advances in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). President George W. Bush announced the construction of FutureGen, a government-industry alliance to build the first near-zero carbon emissions power plant. In addition, the DOE Office of Fossil Energy initiated the creation of Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships to validate and potentially deploy carbon sequestration technologies. Finally, federal funding through the Clean Coal Power Initiative sought to accelerate the development and deployment of technologies to reduce carbon emissions through co-financing commercial projects. Despite significant resources devoted to the development and deployment of CCS technologies, the reality of commercial adoption of CCS technologies remains elusive. Today, the construction of the FutureGen facility is tenuous after a series of funding cuts, terminations, and restorations, a revolving door of industrial actors, and political battles over site designation. DOE has successfully mapped potential geological sinks for storing carbon emissions through the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships, but current projects demonstrating the geological sequestration of carbon emissions are small in scale. The mixed success of these government-industry initiatives to develop large-scale energy innovations raises the question of what is necessary to commercially deploy technological innovations in the energy sector. This presentation considers two government-industry initiatives supported by U.S. Department of Energy to implement viable CCS technology. The first initiative is the design and construction of the latest version of FutureGen. The second initiative is a retrofit of the existing American Electric Power (AEP) Mountaineer power-plant in West Virginia to capture and store carbon emissions. Like most new technologies, CCS contains challenging legal, social, political, and economic issues. This research expands our knowledge of the policy and organizational frameworks necessary to implement large scale energy projects as well as offer critical lessons learned to inform future development and implementation of energy innovations. Maja Holmes http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/5 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/5 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:15:00 PST Chair: Justin Vaughn and Jose Villalobos Appraising the Leadership Role of Obama's Science, Technology and Health-related Czars. Abstract: In this paper, we examine the leadership several of the so-called czars in Obamas administration have provided on key scientific issues. These positions include administrators with oversight over general areas like science, technology, and health, as well as more targeted managerial tasks ranging from global climate change and energy issues to environmental issues like Great Lakes restoration and west coast water supply. In so doing, we root our discussion of the leadership contributions and challenges of these key bureaucratic officials in the broader context of White House policy czar proliferation, showing that the Obama Administrations usage of czars, like that of its immediate predecessors, is driven by a growing gap between presidential goals, public expectations, and political feasibility. As a means of coping, presidents tap trusted and experienced individuals to manage inter-agency policymaking and implementation, a strategic personnel decision that carries with it unique challenges, controversies, and consequences. We evaluate the performance of Obamas key science, technology, and health-related czars in terms of the progress they have made in key issues and the level of controversy their leadership has engendered. Sunny Lee The Obama Administration's National Security Strategy in Northeast Asia: Reorganization of Security Lines. Abstract: The Obama Administrations national security strategy after Iraq War is turning toward Northeast Asia, where are rising variable challenges to screw up regional security environment in danger. Even though Japan has conducted its main taskforce as the U.S. military headquarter in Asia since World War II, it recently required equal balance to upgrade its position in the military relations with the U.S. Japans challenge has motivated the U.S. seriously rethinks its fundamental military strategy in Northeast Asia. In addition, the sinking of a South Korea warship by North Korea would revive China and Russias military strategy to support North Korea in a very suspicious gesture whether North Korea actually attacked. It might be another symptom that China and Russia exploit this case to consider military expansion and take military actions to challenge the U.S. They criticize military drills and reinforcement between South Korea and the U.S. which will increase regional tension. North Korea even declares Sacred War in a reckless response signing additional provocations and China shows military strength with naval exercises off its eastern coast ahead of the U.S. drills with South Korea. Therefore, this paper investigates national security strategy of the U.S. how the Obama Administration should set up new military security line in Northeast Asia and rebuild the relationship with major powers based on regional security. It analyzes each step with detailed methodologies and offer effective strategy that the Obama Administration can take it in policy making process in advance. First, its to move main security line to Korea from Japan. Even after Korean Reunification, the Korean Peninsular would be more strategically important as the center of regional security. Beside direct influence on North Korea issues, South Korea kept on standing on amicable relations with major powers in Northeast Asia. It will effectively undertake a bridge role that the U.S. can control not only North Korea but also China and Russias military ventures in Northeast Asia. Second, its to back up Japan to maintain triangle relationship between the U.S.-South Korea-Japan. It will work out to beat anti-triangle relationship of China-North Korea-Russia. Japan is still counting on the U.S. to deal with North Korea as well as most of regional security issues. Third, its strategically to control China and Russia to reduce regional tension and persuade North Korea to give up nuclear weapons for regional security. The U.S. should offer them national interests through variable routes so that they willingly recognize military expansion stimulates regional tension and intimidate regional security. Fourth, the U.S. has to guarantee consistent and stable security line with major powers in Northeast Asia. Its a strategic paradox that the U.S. with military top position should persuade most of countries to reduce military weapons and control military expansion. But the U.S. should ground strategic tools what is the most important policy for regional security and then the Obama Administration can pursue its national security strategy to achieve regional security in Northeast Asia. Justin Vaughn http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/4 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/4 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:15:00 PST Chair: Nanette Barkey, Deputy Director of Research and Metrics, Population Services International Presentation Topics Arnauld Nicogossian The Importance of Communicating Evidence –Based Medical Policy. Ann McGuigan Upholding the Ethical Integrity in Research Conduct and Publishing. Catherine E. Rudder Differentiating Between Policy, Politics and Opinions when Preparing Manuscripts for Publication. Jeremy Mayer The Misuse of Medical Models in Social Science Research Oversight: HSRB's Run Amok? Thomas Zimmerman Communicating Knowledge and Enhancing Post-Graduate Professional Education in a Digital Age. Purpose To explore the complex issues facing international electronic journal editors and peer-reviewers while ensuring scientific, political and ethical integrity. Introduction to the Session Electronic publishing has revolutionized scientific communications (Lindberg 2008). Since Gutenberg invention of the press the most accepted method of academic communication in the health sciences was publication in a peer-reviewed book or journal. The 20th Century digital age has transformed how articles are accessed worldwide. In the last 10 years the U.S. Congress and many countries around the world did strive to accelerate accessibility to the scientific information. In medicine this transformation was driven in part by a desire to see government-supported research made easily available to its funders: the taxpayers (NLM 2010 website). Today the electronic media provides easy and rapid access worldwide to medical information, and in many instances it is free of charge. Some of the benefits include improved patient care, reduced cost of care, increased efficiency and improved safety and on demand continued professional education. This panel composed of academic leaders will explore the benefits and pitfalls of electronic medical journal publishing, using the experience gained from the PSO supported World Medical and Health Policy Journal. Arnauld Nicogossian http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/3 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/3 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:00:00 PST Chair: Liz Johnson An Interdisciplinary Approach of Complexity and Agent-Based Modeling: Actively Engaging Society in Science and Technology. Abstract: Accounting for complexity and delivering on policy simulation modeling for the general public, requires interdisciplinary efforts from diverse fields of study.  This research unites complexity researchers from public policy and engineering, to address these challenges.  Science and technology policy design and implementation can be analyzed within various contextual frameworks, but needs to account for society along with science and technology as an interrelating complex adaptive system.  Agent-based models are an additional tool for public policy research. They provide the means to generate complexity in simulation policy labs, so researchers can observe the dynamics of agents, the collective, and environment.  The idiom “seeing is believing” is a major strength.  The visual simulation process is similar to an action-packed infomercial, in contrast to static snapshots from most forms of policy research.  They can make policy research become dynamically alive, with conceptually simulated experiments, unconstrained by the bounds of physical reality.  This allows for creativity and thinking beyond the limits policy researchers are typically able to explore.  Since agent-based models are rule-based, different disciplines can understand the rules and participate on an interdisciplinary level, as demonstrated by this research. Additionally, policymakers have a responsibility to keep society apprised of the innovations, risks, benefits, costs, and potential externalities, from science and technology policy issues.  The central purpose of this research is to introduce agent-based modeling as a simulation tool for policymakers.  Agent-based modeling, with a strong theoretical base, can provide dynamic representations of science and technology policy alternatives, elements, and measurements.  This flexible, dynamic tool can provide the means for presenting future policy scenarios of “what could be.”  For example, a simulation will be presented on the interaction of life-extending nanotechnology and its impact on humanness in policymaking.  Furthermore, once policy models are developed, they can be made fully accessible to the general public and posted on a neutral internet site.  This will be demonstrated through varied simulation models on NetLogo.  This approach not only provides greater transparency and understanding, but offers a means for the public to be directly involved in manipulating simulation variables and analyzing various possible policy outcomes.  The technological advances in simulation modeling, can serve as a bridge to the future, facilitating more effective policy and engaging society, in order to strengthen and reinforce the natural, co-evolving processes of science and technology policy. Heath Brown President Obama, Interest Groups and Policy Complexity. Abstract: Scholars of the policy process often study the role interest groups play in influencing federal policy making. Many scholars have focused on the decision to lobbying Congress, the judiciary, and to a lesser extent the White House and the federal bureaucracy. Few scholars have examined in detail the actual advice groups give. This is a limitation to our understanding of federal policy making because the qualitative way groups influence government may explain more about how the process works than traditional qualitative measures. In particular, the federal bureaucracy addresses a range of policy issues that differ in many ways. One way that policy areas differ relates to the degree of complexity inherent in regulating the industry, implementing laws, or interpreting statutes. Environmental policy is an example of a highly complex policy: federal officials and other interested parties must integrate technical information, scientific evidence, and complex regulations. I hypothesize that groups interested in the environment, and other highly complex policy areas, calibrate the advice they give to government to account for this complexity. Conversely, groups engaged in relatively low-complexity policy issues are more likely to use other strategies, such as focusing on political power, to advise government. This study focuses on analyzing the advice given to the Obama administration at its earliest point: during the 2008-2009 Transition. By focusing on the Transition, the analysis captures the first phase of the policy process and agenda initiated by President Obama. The analysis compares highly complex policy areas (environment, energy, health, and transportation) with low complexity policy areas (agriculture, housing, education, and criminal justice) to ascertain whether the way groups advised the President-Elect varied. The findings of the paper will help scholars better understand the unique characteristics of environmental policy, environmental policy interest groups, and the shape of the Obama administration's approach to the environment. Lenneal Henderson Science, Technology and Public Policy: The Case of Energy-Related Research and Development. Abstract: Government-operated contracting organizations (GOCOs) play a substantial and continuing role in energy-related research and development. Owned by federal agencies such as the United States Department of Energy and operated by non-governmental contractors such as large corporations, universities and research non-profit, these laboratories advance work on energy efficiency in the appliance, transportation and industrial sector; renewable energy research and energy/environmental interfaces. This presentation reviews the work of three of these entities: 1) Argonne National Laboratories in measuring the socioeconomic dynamics of energy policy; 2) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's work on household energy efficiency and; (3) the work of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. From these three cases, a theory of network management in science, technology and public policy is derived and extended from the literature on network organizations and policy issue networks. Liz Johnson http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/2 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/2 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:00:00 PST Chair: Albert H. Rubenstein (Paper co-authored with Elie Geisler,Illinois Institute of Technology, and Marshall Maglothin, Bon Secours Health System) A Corporate or Central Research Lab (CRL) for Hospital Systems: Implications for Health Care. Abstract: Large hospital systems (especially multi-hospital organizations and large, university-based hospitals) have made great strides in adopting new technology in areas such as: imaging, surgery, medical records and others. However, there is still a major gap in comparison to industry, defense, and other fields. One reason for the gap is the lack, in most hospital systems, of a high quality, unified “portal” for new and improved technology that can serve across  the various “silo” units in the system – the individual hospitals and specialties (e.g. surgery, medical, emergency, pediatrics, maternity, cardiac, etc.) Although a lot of new technology does get into the system, there is still a series of barriers to smooth transition, often characterized as the “valley of death” in technology transfer. Specialists are often absorbed in their own, often very specific and narrow, fields of supporting technology. They often do not have the time or motivation or channels to seek potentially useful technology outside their own specialties and organizations (e.g. individual hospitals.) Based on our several decades of research (at Northwestern University) and consulting with industry and government (through IASTA, Inc.) we see the opportunity to bring the concept of the CRL into large and multi-hospital health care organizations. We are currently working on five elements of the design for a CRL:  1) Form of the CRL;  2) Problem focus;  3) Project portfolio, 4) Interactions with technology sources, and  5) size of the CRL. Jack Meyer Report: The Impact of Federal Stimulus Funding on Health Spending in Florida. Abstract: Health care in Florida is benefiting significantly from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Of the total amount of ARRA funding, 22 percent, or $4.36 billion, was devoted to enhanced federal matching payments to the state for Medicaid. Another $88.6 million in ARRA funding was allocated to assisting community health centers, while some $54 million was devoted to Health Information Technology. ARRA funding has also supported initiatives to reduce hospital-acquired infections and improve regulatory oversight to enhance patient safety. A major challenge is to build on this work and achieve sustainable progress. ARRA funding will begin phasing down next year. The promising initiatives highlighted in this report have been seeded by the economic stimulus program, but if they are to blossom fully, the state will need to nurture and support them. Albert H. Rubenstein http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/1 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2010/schedule/1 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:00:00 PST Chair: Leo Ribuffo, George Washington University Chuck Manto Sponsored Telecommunications Services: An Alternative to Taxes and Market Subsidies. Abstract: This is a proposal for $trillion help for social needs separate from taxes and market subsidies through a proposed class of telecommunications services for health care, cyber security and disaster recovery.  It is derived by linking those with needs to those who have motivation to meet those needs.  It can also be applied to the Internet of Things.  This discussion includes a telemedicine example with the potential for including rewards that can change behavior that holds promise for better outcomes.  The concept has received four US patents but is only now being applied commercially as part of a pilot project that may be supported by a U of MD R&D grant to a team from Frostburg State University and presenter Charles Manto. Erick Weber The Moral, Political, Educational, and Economic Promise of Expanded Broadband Internet Access in Rural America. Abstract: Government expenditure on infrastructure is a fruitful way of addressing problems of high unemployment while putting people to work.  Beyond these benefits as well as the added value of regions that have greater infrastructure, there are further benefits that come from expanding broadband internet access to rural communities.  In this paper, I will present many effects that are not often considered in weighing the costs and benefits of government spending on infrastructure.  Both President Obama and John McCain during his candidacy said that they supported the expansion of broadband internet infrastructure.  It is not so common, however, to find consolidated statements of the justifications for such actions.  I argue that the benefits of expanded broadband internet infrastructure arise in considerations of ethics, politics, and education, as well as matters of economic growth.  Plus, when great effort is put forward for expansion of one form of infrastructure, it becomes cheaper and cheaper to enhance several areas of development simultaneously a result of economies of scale and of maximizing benefits of opportunities and expenditures at once.  The paper will proceed through each of these areas of benefit one by one.  This analysis is not to deny the great costs of infrastructure expansion, but rather to examine in depth the variety of reasons for expansion that are frequently not considered. Warigia Bowman Evaluating the Efforts of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program in Rural Mississippi. Abstract: The objective of this paper is to review the successes and failures of President Obama’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, with special attention to efforts to wire rural areas in Mississippi. The motivation for this project came out of my volunteer service as an expert reviewer for BTOP proposals. The methods I have used to conduct the research include participant-observation, review of primary documents, such as websites, news articles, and government documents, review of secondary documents such as analysis by the GAO. Finally, if possible, site visits and interviews will be incorporated as data sources. The project result will be an overview of broadband related projects, including infrastructure, public computer centers, and sustainability projects in Mississippi. The implications of this paper will be a first cut at a performance audit of the BTOP program. This paper will include recommendations regarding other steps that can be taken to make broadband more affordable and accessible, sustainable, and most importantly an engine of economic growth in our nation’s poorest state. Chuck Manto http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2009/schedule/19 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2009/schedule/19 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2009/schedule/18 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2009/schedule/18 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:00:00 PST Chair: Arnauld Nicogossian, George Mason University Arnauld Nicogossian Communicating the Knowledge Abstract: Policy decisions should be consistent with knowledge base. Communicating the evidence is one of the most important duty of the academic and practicing professionals. Without  the evidence and candor there cannot be transparency and public trust. Poor communication practices can lead to confusion, helplessness, anger, civil disobedience and political backlash. The example of  vaccination for seasonal and pandemic influenza will be discussed in the context of the bioethics, policy and politics. Naoru Koizumi Use of Technology to Design Better Health Policies Abstract: GIS is becoming increasingly popular in health care research in recent years. Typical GIS-based studies include an analysis such as "hot-spot" analysis that detects clusters of an infectious disease, simulation of a disease spread, or demand & supply analysis that identifies geographical areas with over- / under- utilization of services improving decision making in outcomes. Jessica Heineman-Pieper Politics in Health Sciences & Policy Abstract: The complexity of system dynamics in the health care sector enables greater scope for politics through the collective interplay of unconscious biases, deliberate agendas, and systemic tendencies. In the international context, these dynamics operate at the level of whole world-views and are compounded by power asymmetries that, among other things, have skewed important issues in global public health policy for less powerful countries towards US economic interests rather than the true wellbeing of those countries’ citizens. Public trust as well as domestic and global public health can benefit from both recognizing the operation of power and influence in public health science and policy and also mitigating these forces by reinstating core public health commitments. Arnauld Nicogossian http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2009/schedule/17 http://www.psocommons.org/dupont_summit/2009/schedule/17 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:15:00 PST The lectures, which are the centerpiece of all Philosophical Society of Washington meetings, are selected to appeal to those with a general interest in science and do not require a specialized knowledge of the subject. They always contain information that is current, explanations that are understandable and a few controversial issues to be challenged by a critical listener. The series is designed as much as possible to include a wide range of disciplines. Adam Riess