Our mission is to make research and education more impactful, accessible, and delightful by developing, operating, and supporting infrastructure for interactive computing.

Goals

Our service goals are to help communities in research and education be more…

Impactful

Accelerate the ability to create and share interactive knowledge internally and externally. Make community workflows more productive and efficient so that users can ask questions and share results more effectively.

Accessible

Make interactive computing accessible to a diverse range of global communities. Broaden participation in knowledge creation and sharing across the world, particularly from marginalized communities.

Sustainable

Build a financially sustainable and globally scalable service. Use our resources to support and grow the open source communities that we partner with to support a healthy open ecosystem.

Principles

Our service principles help communities trust us as stewards of critical scientific workflows.

Transparency

Our infrastructure should be transparent and modular so that it respects the community’s Right to Replicate .

Empowerment

Our platform gives communities agency to design the service they need, and to manage it without 2i2c if they wish.

Partnership

Our participatory service model ensures we maximize our impact and keeps our incentives aligned with community needs.

We empower communities to share and learn.

Interactive computing hubs provide access to standardized workflows that make it easier for community members to teach and share with one another, and to enhance their work together.

How communities improve with shared infrastructure.

We build on an ecosystem of open tools, standards, and services to enable the lifecycle of knowledge creation

Building with flexible, modular, and open technology allows us to re-use the same components for many community workflows. This allows us to build community-centric infrastructure in a scalable way.

The service lifecycle we enable.
Open source tools we use and support in our service.

We make open source tools more impactful for research and education

Our global network gives us a unique perspective to identify high-impact improvements to open source tools. We collaborate with open source communities to make upstream enhancements, and re-deploy the improved tools to the communities in our network.

The lifecycle of upstream development