Dr. Wilson is Director of a new joint venture between IGI Global and SeaTrust Institute scheduled to launch in fall 2009: an e-research Consortium on Climate Change and Population Health.

The Consortium's purpose is to co-create new interdisciplinary knowledge about climate change and population health using appropriate technological, communications and analytical tools including interactive GIS mapping of observed and predicted climate changes and related population health concerns.  The resulting joint publications include a book devoted to the Consortium’s outcomes and a special journal edition devoted to lessons learned about e-research, will be outcomes of this project.

Social Mission:  The Consortium will create conditions that encourage benefits from the participants’ synergies for those most at risk. The project developers particularly encourage pairings of developing country participants with those from developed countries who can provide access to institutions, researchers, resources and projects that help developing countries with their real and immediate climate and population health needs.  Workgroups will be designed with this goal in mind and its achievement will be a specified measure of project success.

Published: November 2008

Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy

Editors: Janet Salmons, Ph.D. & Lynn Wilson, Ph.D.

The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy provides a cross-sector, interdisciplinary exploration of collaboration practices. The handbook examines structure, organization, technology tools and leadership practices that characterize successful collaboration in and across the fields of education, public policy, and business.

In this book we highlight the electronic aspects, applications and issues surrounding collaboration and organizational synergy. The focus of the handbook is on the set of strategic, cross-cultural, team and technical skills required to collaborate and achieve organizational synergy in the age of the Internet and a digitally connected 21^st century global society.

Editors Janet Salmons, Ph.D. and Lynn Wilson, Ph.D. draw on their scholarly and practical experience with inter-organizational and intra-organizational collaborations in the fields covered in the handbook.