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Abstract

The Ministry of Research, Science and Technology (MoRST) has recently completed examining e-Research tools and applications in New Zealand. As a consequence of this work, MoRST has developed directions for supporting e-Research. This is aligned with national research and education programmes and other high level policy such as the New Zealand Digital Strategy 2.0 and is underpinned by previous e-Research investments made from a number of sources.

This new support will be delivered during 2008-2009, providing a significant boost to eResearch in New Zealand by increasing the number of researchers using the advanced network (Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN)) and enhancing e-Research facilities available

This proposed presentation will discuss MoRST’s role in tackling how to support New Zealand’s research community to exploit e-Research tools and resources. It will also discuss some of the barriers to e-Research uptake that have been uncovered and how the new directions will tackle these challenges. This presentation will also demonstrate how New Zealand e-Research community can collaborate with international colleagues and give an outlook of e-Research in New Zealand in the future.

About the speaker

George joined MoRST in January 2005. Before taking the role of Director, Emerging Technologies, with responsibility for eScience and Research policy and oversight of the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN), he was Director of Biotechnology Policy. MoRST was responsible for setting up KAREN, which is now managed by the Crown owned company Research and Education Networks New Zealand Ltd (REANNZ). Since the network went live in 2007 MoRST policy has focused on making the network accessible to New Zealand researchers, improving their ability to use the network and improving public access to New Zealand government funded research outputs. For the two years before joining MoRST, George was in the Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Teams at NZ Trade and Enterprise, including a four month secondment to NZBio, the biotechnology industry association for New Zealand. Before that he was a science team leader with the Crown Research Institute Industrial Research Ltd working in the areas of natural products and carbohydrate chemistry. George received his PhD in Chemistry from Otago University and also worked in the UK, at Cambridge University, the Institute for Child Health, and the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge.