CRGP
was set up as a Collaboratory -- i.e., a virtual global laboratory using both
virtual and face-to-face communications to collaborate with research partners
worldwide who share our research goals and approach. Other departments and
centers at Stanford engaged in related research help to round out CRGP's
capabilities and bring additional resources to our research and outreach
mission. Collaborators from other universities to date have been based as far away
as Finland and South Africa, and as close by as Monterey, California. CRGP has
Collaboratory Partners in all of the 'BRIC' countries--Brazil, Russia, India
and China--as well as South Africa.