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Use Case

Example

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University Staff (Broker) enters a Research Opportunity into Yaffle on behalf of public.

The goal is to match Public with Researchers. Matches can be made by Broker(s) and using the following criteria:  Research Interests, Expertise, Publications, and Research Projects

 Transmission Link on Labrador coast

Precondition

Idea articulated at a University Regional Workshop and entered into system by University Staff (Brokers) as a Research Opportunity

The Directors of the regional economic development boards in the area attend a Regional Workshop. They express a need for more information on a provincial project.

 Harris Centre Staff (Brokers) document the need and enter it into Yaffle as a Research Opportunity and follow up with a phone call to the Harris Centre.

Local fishermen express concern with the proposed transmission link, essentially a high power cable laid on the ocean bottom of their fishing grounds.

If one decides to visit St. Pierre et Miquelon, the self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, via maritime link, there is no other way to do that but to traverse most of the Burin Peninsula to take a ferry from of Fortune. During the regional workshop in the area, several people expressed interest to build stronger tourism links between the two regions and cross-promote the tourist sites in both areas. The opportunity was entered into Yaffle.ca by a Harris Centre staff member.

Actors

• University Staff (Brokers)
• Application (Yaffle)

• Public (Group)
• University Faculty

• Executive directors of two Regional Economic Development Boards in the area. Regional Economic Development Boards are classic QUANGOs (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations) set up to coordinate and foster regional economic development. At the time, there were 20 such organizations around the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.Tourism operators, local economic development staff, St. Pierre et Miquelon tourism development officers
• Harris Centre institutional knowledge brokers: The role is to broker research opportunities between community and Memorial university researchers.

• Researchers : Initially, an oceanographer, and eventually a business professor as well.and students. Head of the Tourism Department at Grenfell Campus of Memorial University and his undergraduate class

Steps

1. Idea/Opportunity is emailed to the University then articulated in a phone call.
2. Idea/Opportunity is entered into Yaffle as Opportunity
3. Broker staff match Public with Researcher based on Research Interests, Project work, Publications
4. Broker initiates collaboration between Public and Research
5. Broker documents Opportunity as Project

1. The Harris Centre Knowledge Mobilization staff use Yaffle.ca to find a Researcher with the Ocean Sciences Centre who agrees to meet with the community.
2. The researcher addresses the immediate concerns of the fishermen in a town hall meeting  event
3. Following the meeting with the residents, the researcher agrees to take a look at the engineering data provided by the public utility. He prepares a short report outlining his concerns. The executive directors of the local REDBs use the report to support their application to the federal government to secure funding that would allow them to conduct appropriate environmental assessment studies.

1. promoted this particular opportunity within the Tourism Department
2. The department head took it on as a service learning opportunity for his senior undergraduate class.
3. The class will travel to the area, meet with the public stakeholders and develop several possible options for better marketing and cooperation opportunities between the regions.

Variation Scenario