IOC - ICT for Research Committee.

	IOC - ICT for Research Committee.

Purpose

This page explains the IOC committee charter and operation.

Introduction

We want an organization that ensures that researchers have access to a digital environment that really helps them move forward in what they are doing now and in the future. We do this by challenging each other with inspiring ideas and plans and making the best possible choices. And, by bridging the gap between faculties and services at all levels. Digitization is not an isolated activity of an ICT department or staff department, it is part of everyone's work. And that requires ownership of the digital agenda in various places in the organization, including in the education and research organization.

The following vision has been included in the research vision about the role of ICT in research: An important development is the ongoing digitization of our society. The explosive increase in digital data ("data explosion") poses new questions and challenges to science. The enormous amount of (open) data, for example, offers new opportunities to conduct research. At the same time, science is needed to use that data in a meaningful way. There is a great need for models, methods and techniques to unlock, search, analyze and visualize the amount of data. In addition, new methods are being developed, such as artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence, AI), that (may) influence the way we conduct research. While ICT is mainly seen as supporting, the above developments show that ICT creates new possibilities for research. The influence of the data explosion and new methods, such as AI, potentially have a major impact on research in certain areas. The UvA will have to relate to this.

Charter

The ICT for Research Committee (IOC) provides solicited and unsolicited advice to the UOC and the ICT Steering Group with regard to the digital agenda, the multi-year implementation plan (priorities, innovation proposals) and ICT-related topics in the research domain. The committee involves national and international developments in its advice. The committee draws up a digital draft agenda supported by IM and AcZ and involves relevant stakeholders. The digital agenda and the multi-year plan are ultimately determined by the Executive Board. The ICTS and UB services are responsible for the implementation of the multi-year plan. Implementation is monitored by the Information Management (IM) policy department.

Committee composition:

The Executive Board appoints the chair.
The chair is a agenda member of the UOC and a member of the Regiegroep ICT.
The members are nominated by the deans. Faculties can supply one or two members. Profile of the members: Established scientists with an important ICT component in their research and with a broad strategic vision on the application aspects of ICT in their discipline and beyond.
The UB service is a permanent member. The member is nominated by the director of the service.
The Open Science coordinator is an agenda member.
The ICTS service is agenda member. The member is nominated by the director of the service.
The committee can be expanded to include agenda members of the AUAS.
The committee is supported by the management staff (IM and AcZ).

Committee

The IOC menbers are:

	Name(s)	Representing	Role
-	prof. dr. ir. C.T.A.M. (Cees) de Laat	ICT-Regie and UOC	chair
-	TBA	ACTA	member
-	dr,ir, M.W.A. (Matthan) Caan, prof. dr. A.H.C. (Antoine) van Kampen	FdG	member
-	prof.dr. J.V.J. (Joris) van Hoboken	FdR	member
-	Dr. B.A. (Bart) Lameijer	FEB	member
-	drs. H. (Harry) Raam, L. (Leon) van Wissen MA	FGW	member
-	Prof. dr. H.L.J. (Han) van der Maas, Prof. dr. T.B. (Theo) Araujo	FMG	member
-	dr. P.R. (Philippe) Corboz, Dr. ir. E.E. (Emiel) van Loon	FNWI	member
-	dr.ir. M. (Max) Haring, Prof. dr. F.P. (Fred) Weerman	UB	ex-officio
-	M. (Marten) Teitsma MSc	AUAS	ex-officio
-	B. (Bas) Kroon MBA	ICTS	ex-officio
-	prof.dr. F.J. (Frans) Oort	Open Science Coordinator	ex-officio
-	B.N.J. (Boy) Menist, S.A. (Simon) Speksnijder MPhil (BS-AcZ), Frank van Tatenhove (BS-IM)	IM & AcZ	Secretariat