CAT-22

During 2022, the Cognitive Security & Education Forum (COGSEC) produced multiple research outputs, included in our 2022 edited volume “Structuring the Information Commons: Open Standards and Cognitive Security” (download link below). This 2022 volume reflects work related to the 2022 COGSEC initiative “Catechisms for Open Source Science Integration” (CAT-22, see the original call for collaborators below) and the continuation of our 2021 COGSEC initiative “Narrative Information Management” (NIM, see more

NIM-21⁠

). Throughout these initiatives, COGSEC integrated its research interests and objectives under an expanded scope through the Verified Information Exchange Environment (VIE) Program being conducted by the University of Washington Applied Physics Lab’s Information Risk and Synthetic Intelligence Research Initiative (IRSIRI). IRSIRI, as a part of its participation in the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator, helped facilitate an experimental, crowd-sourced research program which framed the global information environment as a market for information in need of community exchange protocols and local standards setting in order to de-risk, reduce volatility, and increase trust in digital information transactions. The program aimed to create the conceptual foundation for an exchange-house, or verified information exchange environment (VIE), which would increase trust in digital information exchanges through the use of an eclectic ensemble of information sharing, curation, and research tools.

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COGSEC2022-StructuringtheInformationCommons.pdf

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Original 2022 Call for Collaborators

During a time of rapid change in the global research and innovation ecosystem, new approaches for research funding, implementation, communication, and reducing time-to-impact are desperately required. Catechism-based research for emergent or instantaneous remote teams presents an actionable and scalable framework for modern collaboration, consistent with values of rigor, accessibility, inclusion, and participation. In 2022, the primary COGSEC initiative will be “Catechisms for Open Source Science Integration” (CAT-22), building upon the research in prior years. In CAT-22, COGSEC and collaborators will explore applied research and the scalability of the project catechism approach and the development of tools related to their implementation.

Additionally, COGSEC will continue the

NIM-21⁠

by integrating its research interests and objectives under an expanded scope through the Verified Information Exchange Environment (VIE) Program being conducted by the University of Washington Applied Physics Lab’s Information Risk and Synthetic Intelligence Research Initiative (IRSIRI). IRSIRI, as a part of its participation in the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator, is hosting an experimental, crowd-sourced research program which frames the global information environment as a market for information in need of community exchange protocols and local standards setting in order to de-risk, reduce volatility, and increase trust in digital information transactions. The program aims to create the conceptual foundation for an exchange-house, or verified information exchange environment (VIE), which would increase trust in digital information exchanges through the use of an eclectic ensemble of information sharing, curation, and research tools.

This integration will allow us to further test and refine the catechism methodology with a much larger number of collaborators, to continue to facilitate research on NIM and adjacent areas, and to pursue COGSEC’s mission of influencing the development of tools. COGSEC will next seek out partnerships with other organizations which may benefit from the methodology being integrated into funding, work, and reporting processes, and look to develop tools which help facilitate adoption and implementation.

We are actively seeking collaborators across a wide range of areas related to both CAT-22 and NIM. Given our focus on interdisciplinary research, please do not hesitate to respond to calls for collaboration or to reach out if you are interested in contributing to solutions but are not necessarily specialized in what may be assumed to be related domains.

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Disclaimer Authorship or other forms of contribution under a COGSEC program does not necessarily represent or constitute (i) an endorsement of any other hosted materials, (ii) a formal affiliation with any associated organizations or communities or COGSEC itself, or (iii) contact or association with any other contributor or author, even where they are marked as contributors or authors on the same materials.

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