NSF, etc.

As usual, I've been a bit lax in posting here, but things are moving along on a number of fronts. Today and Friday of this week I'll be playing the role of Mediator in the final research project related to the National Science Foundation ODR research that has been ongoing for almost six years. Four sets of volunteers from the airline and railroad industries (management and labor) have agreed to spend some time on both days working with STORM2, the experimental software application that the NSF research created to handle online brainstorming. If all goes well, we should be able to publish some of the results reasonably soon.

Tomorrow I'm sitting in on a USIP discussion about mobile telephony and peacebuilding. Jeff will be on the panel and so will one of our contacts in Afghanistan, with whom we hope to work in the near future. Jeff is going to Kabul in July, but due to some health issues and work issues, I'll not be joining him on this trip.

There is a significant ODR and commercial disputes conference coming up in Vancouver later this year - I've agreed to post at least once a week on the blog for the conference, and I'll cross-post here as we get closer to the conference.