Working Groups are being established to facilitate collaboration and accelerate scientific progress. Currently, the MSD Community of Practice has 6 active working groups, and 1 emeritus working group that became a funded project. Click on the links below for more information about each working group, including how to become involved.

Active Working Groups

Energy Sytems

Emeritus Working Groups

Open Science and FAIR Data

One component of an effective community of practice is leveraging shared tools and resources. The purpose of this working group was to facilitate the reuse of models and datasets across the MSD community. Their 10-year vision was to foster a culture of openness and to facilitate a collaborative, resource-rich, community-driven way of doing MSD research. In this open science world MSD datasets would be developed using the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable; Wilkinson et al. 2016) data standards and open-source models would be the norm rather than the exception.

This working group became a DOE-funded project called MSD-LIVE, which aims to accelerate progress, facilitate and incentivize collaboration, and enhance the scientific impact and visibility of the MSD community through the development of a collaborative data and computational platform for the MultiSector Dynamics community.