Research Interests
Raed's academic research focuses on:
- Access to and reuse of Public Sector Information (PSI), especially scientific and technical information, and its impact on scientific and socioeconomic development.
- The measurement of the social and economic value of PSI.
- The involvement of young scientists in the science and technology policy making processes.
Dissertation Title:
The Value of Public Sector Information as a Strategic Resource for Socioeconomic Development Research and Policy Activities in South Africa
Selected Publications:
Papers, Book Chapters and Posters:
· Sharif, Raed M. (2009). Maximizing the Value of Public Sector Information for Scientific and Socioeconomic Development in Africa. The Proceedings of the 3rd Biannual Knowledge Management Africa (KMA) Conference. Dakar, Senegal, May 4-7, 2009.
· Uhlir, Paul. F., Sharif, Raed. M., Merz, Tilman. (2009). Measuring the Social and Economic Costs and Benefits of Public Sector Information Online: Review of Literature and Future Directions. In the NRC Report titled “The Socioeconomic Effect of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks”.
Available at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12687
· Sharif, Raed M. (2009). The Value of Public Sector Information as a Strategic Resource to Civil Society Organizations’ in South Africa: Evidence from the Fight to Eradicate Poverty. Poster presented at the iSociety: Research, Education, Engagement Conference, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Feb. 8-11, 2009.
· Sharif, Raed. M. and Uhlir, Paul. F. (2009). An Inventory of Resources for Creating an Open Institutional Repositories. Toolkit prepared for the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and IDeveloping Countries. Published at: http://www.interacademies.net/
· Lange Canhos, D. A., Perez Canhos, V., Anderson, W., Uhlir, P. F., Carroll, B. C., Sharif, R. M. & Kishor, P. (Eds.) (2007). Strategies for open and permanent access to scientific information in Latin America: focus on health and environmental information for sustainable development. Workshop report. Atibaia: CRIA. Available at: http://www.cria.org.br/eventos/codata2007/report/Brazil2007_workshop_report.rtf
· Paul Wouters, Christine Hine, Kirsten A. Foot, Steven M. Schneider, Subbiah Arunachalam, Raed M. Sharif, (2006), "Promise and Practice of Open Access to e-Science". In: W. Shrum, K. R. Benson, W. E. Bijker & K. Brunnstein (Eds.), Past, Present, and Future of Research in the Information Society: Reflections at the Occasion of the World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis 2005. New York: Springer, pp. 159-172.
· Qin, J. & Sharif, R.M. (2006). Metadata research: Models, schemas, and realities. Paper presented at the ASSIT Annual Meeting, November 3-8, 2006, Austin, Texas.
· Cogburn, D.L., Johnsen, J.F., Bhattacharyya, S., Sharif, R.M., Howison, J. (2006). Distributed Deliberative Citizens: Exploring the Impact of Collaboratories on Transnational NGO Network Participation in WSIS. Paper presented at the “Uniting the Americas: Technology, Intercultural Communication, and Public Affairs Conference". A special joint conference presented by the University of Saint Martin de Porres (Lima, Peru), ICA, and the American Communication Association (ACA). August 3-5, 2006.
· Sharif, R.M. (2005). Scientific Communities' Access to Publicly Funded Scientific Information in Latin America: A Conceptual Framework. Paper presented at a Pre-WSIS conference: The Past, Present and Future Research in Information Society. Tunis, Tunisia. November13-15, 2005.
· Sharif, R.M. (2005). Harnessing Science and Technology Research in Developing Countries: Empowering the Bottom-Up Approach. Poster presented at the Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development. An International Workshop. The CSIR Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa, 5-7 September 2005.
· McKnight, L., Wijngaert, L., Sharif, R. M. (2005). Wireless Grids: Assessing a New Technology from a User Perspective. The Proceedings of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)-Working Conference on Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments .Cleveland, Ohio, August 1-3, 2005.
· Guzman, I. R., Sharif, R. M., Blanchard, T. J., Ellis, G. S., & Stanton, J. M. (2005). What attracts women to the IT field? The First Process of Occupational Socialization. The Proceedings of the 2005 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Omaha, Nebraska, USA, August 12-15, 2005.
· Sharif, R.M. (2005). It’s a Man’s World: The Accommodation Process of Women to IT Occupational Subculture in the US. The Proceedings of the Connections 2005: The 10th Great Lakes Information Science Conference at McGill University, Montreal-Canada, May 14-15, 2005.
· Sharif, R.M. (2003). The use and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's) in the Palestinian Education System. Unpublished paper. UNESCO, Paris.
Keynote Speeches:
The Power of Information and Digital Networks: New Paradigms and Expectations for Socioeconomic Development. The 9th Annual Information & Knowledge Management Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa. July 10th, 2009.
Sessions, Panels, and Presentations
· Invited Presentation. The Use of Public Sector Information in Socioeconomic Development in South Africa. A Seminar at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Midrand, South Africa. August 18th, 2009. Audience: the DBSA staff.
· Invited Presentation. Maximizing the Value of Public Sector Information: New Paradigms and Expectations for Socioeconomic Development. A Seminar at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Pretoria, South Africa. August 11th, 2009. Audience: HSRC staff, government and private sector representatives, faculty, graduate students.
· Presentation. What is in the Public Sector Data and Information for Scientific and Socioeconomic Development in the Developing World? IASSIST's 35th annual conference: Mobile Data and the Life Cycle. Tampere, Finland, May 26-29, 2009.
· Invited Presentation. Maximizing the Economic Value of Government Information to the Private Sector’s Growth and Competitiveness in South Africa. The Department of Information and Knowledge Management at University of Johannesburg monthly public seminar. Johannesburg, South Africa, May 21st, 2009. Audience: Government and private sector representatives, faculty, graduate students.
· Invited Presentations. “The Open Institutional Repositories Inventory of Resources” and “The IAP Member Academies Survey and Summary Analysis Documents: An Overview”. The InterAcademy Panel on International Issues Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: 2nd Steering Committee and 1st Task Groups Meeting. Pretoria, South Africa, May 11-12, 2009.
· Organizing and Co-chairing a session titled “The Social and Technological Issues in Scientific Data Management: Awareness, Facilitation, and Access” at the 21st CODATA International Conference, Scientific Information for Society- from Today to the Future, 5-8 October, 2008.
· Presentation. The Role of Young Scientists in the Open Access Movement. International Workshop on Open Access Models for Science Dissemination, organized by the Abdus Salam Center for Theoretical Physics. Trieste, Italy, July 7-16, 2008.
· Invited Presentation. The Role of the e-SDDC Young Scientists Forum (YSF) in Creating a Young Scientists Network for Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure. The InterAcademy Panel on International Issues Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in Developing Countries Regional Meeting. Shanghai, China, May 28-29, 2008.
· Invited Presentation. Creating Open Knowledge Environment: Available Tools and Technologies. The InterAcademy Panel on International Issues Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in Developing Countries Regional Meeting. Shanghai, China, May 28-29,2008.
· Invited Presentation. Measuring the Social and Economic Cost and Benefits of PSI online: Review of the Literature and Future Directions. OECD- U.S. National Academies Workshop, OECD Paris, France, February 4-5, 2008.
· Invited Presentation. The Global Information Commons for Science and Innovation from the Developing Countries Perspective. Japan-U.S. Cooperative Science Program: International Workshop on Designing Global Information Commons for Innovation in Frontier Sciences. Tokyo, Japan, November 8-10, 2007.
· Invited Presentation. The Role of Young Scientists in Maximizing the Value of Science in the Information Age. Global Scientific Challenges: Perspectives from Young Scientists. An international conference celebrating 75 years of ICSU. Lindau, Germany, April 4-6, 2007.
· Organizing and chairing a session with invited speakers, including myself, titled: “Maximizing the value of science in the information age: Young scientists and the new exciting opportunities”. Middle East Frontiers of Science and Engineering (FOSE). Seville, Spain, March 19-21, 2007.
· Presentation: Metadata and Multilingualism: The Case of Access to Scientific data and Information. At the panel on “Supporting Sustainable Access to Scientific Data through Metadata “. The 20th CODATA International Conference: Scientific Data and Knowledge within the Information Society. October 23-25, 2006 Beijing, China.
· Presentation. Access to and Use of Publicly Funded Geospatial Data for Health and Environmental Applications in Latin America: A Focus on Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development (A Study Design). The 9th Global Spatial Data Infrastructure international conference: Spatial Information: Tool for reducing poverty. November 6-10, 2006 Santiago, Chile.
· Invited Panelist. Internet Governance after WSIS. Panel organized by Syracuse University School of Law, February 21, 2006.
· Invited Panelist. CODATA and the Global Information Commons for Science Initiative. A panel Organized by CODATA International as a side event at WSIS II Conference. Tunis, November 17th, 2005.
· Invited Presentation. Harnessing Science and Technology Research in Developing Countries: Empowering the Bottom-Up Approach. University of Western Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Sept. 10, 2005.
· Invited Presentations: “The E-Phenomenon” & “What is E-Commerce?” .The Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC). Ramallah, Palestine. June 2002. Audience: Palestinian Trade Attaches.
· Invited Presentations. “Do we really need e-government in Palestine?” and “Is Palestine ready for e-government? Questions without answers!” The Ministry of Trade and Economy (MOTE). Gaza and Ramallah, Palestine. April 2004. Audience: The Minister and the ministry staff.
· Invited Presentation. “National Strategies for ICT: Lessons Learned”. The Palestinian ICT Strategy Task Force. Ramallah, Palestine, July 2004. Audience: Representatives form the Ministry of ICT, the Palestinian Information Technology Association (PITA) www.pita.ps, the ICT private sectors and international organizations.