In the recent years, researchers are collaborating with their peers extensively.
With increased funding around "Collaborative Research", this has led to researchers needing to have the capability to:
- collaborate with research partners and colleagues through the use of video technologies.
- Video technologies must be inexpensive (or free) and provide high quality visual collaboration;
- Video tools must provide the capabilities to allow communication to national and international partners;
- Provides the ability to interoperate with differing video conferencing and collaboration technologies;
- share data (See Data Tool Section to additional information) with external collaborators;
- collaborate with government and industry partners;
- use collaboration tools which assists with working from multiple sites, include : office, laboratory, out in the field and from home;
- access national infrastructure and resources;
This section of CQUniversity's eResearch website highlights information on current "Collaborative Technologies", national projects and tools to facilitate improve collaboration. These include: