Southeastern Outreach Partnership Project

The Office of Science Education and Technical Information through it's staff in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia is providing leadership in building a collaboration with other Department of Energy Program Offices and a wide range of external participants in the Southeast to improve the delivery and use of Departmental technical information and technology transfer resources. This newly developing regional coalition held it's first meeting on April 4, 1995 and decided to pursue the following issues:

• Quality improvement reviews of the Department's "Home Page" on the Internet.
• Using the Department's technology transfer resources to improve economic development in the Southeast.
• Leveraging Departmental and external resources to improve existing energy-related education, training, small business outreach programs.
• Promoting the Department's Regional Support Office in Atlanta to serve as a public access point to the World Wide Web.

Among the external partners are the Southern States Energy Board, the Georgia Research Alliance, the North Carolina Division of Energy, Enterprise Florida, the Advanced Technology Development Center at Georgia Tech, the Georgia Youth Science and Technology Council, and the Southern Technology Council. The next Partnership meeting will be held on June 20, 1995.

This Southeastern Outreach Partnership could serve as a model for the establishment of other regional coalitions throughout the country.

For more information: Don Holz, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, P.O. Box 62, Oak Ridge, TN 37831. (615, 576-2203)