Project: INWA
INWA - Informing Business & Regional Policy : Grid-enabled fusion of global data and local knowledge
The INWA project has been using existing Grid technologies to allow researchers to analyse commercial data located at sites in the UK, Australia. Recently the project has been extended to include a site in China.
The project is funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) under the pilot projects in e-Social Science Programme.
The project partners in the UK are EPCC, The University of Edinburgh Management School and Lancaster University Management School. In Australia the project partners are Curtin Business School in the Curtin University of Technology in Perth and Sun Microsystems. In China the project partner is the Computer Network Information Centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.