EAGER: Pathways to Sustainable Success in Smart and Connected Communities

EAGER：智能互联社区可持续成功之路

• 批准号: 2229833
• 负责人: Glenn Ricart
• 金额: $ 29.96万
• 依托单位: US Ignite, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2229833&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Pathways; Sustainable; Success; Smart

The National Science Foundation supports a wide variety of valuable technical and social civic innovation through its Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) and Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) programs. While many of the projects funded through these efforts have significant and long-lasting impact in multiple communities, others fail to make the translation into being sustainable and scalable. This EAGER will employ a multi-stage process to identify the combinations of factors which underlie successful translation as well as those factors which can be barriers. This EAGER will also explore specific steps, interventions, and resources which can propel more projects to sustainable, scalable, and long-term success. An important part of this research is connecting individual projects with what may be appropriate ideas, approaches, and resources, as well as documenting the process and outcomes.US Ignite will work with NSF's CIVIC and S&CC project teams to pilot pathways to deploy their technology and policy outcomes into larger-scale deployments. US Ignite will analyze existing NSF-funded research projects in S&CC and CIVIC to determine suitability for sustainable and successful deployment in multiple communities. Deployment may be accomplished through a number of pathways such as spinning out the technology to a startup, making the technology and/or data available as open source for others to use, protecting the intellectual property so that it retains value for a committed industry partner or alliance, and procurement by local government. Some of the pathways will leverage partners already providing these services. This EAGER will contribute to a wider body of knowledge on the evolution of innovative, inclusive, and equitable technology deployment in smart communities and their social and economic implications. Ability to positively impact equity, inclusiveness of diverse populations, community engagement, and civic trust will be important components of the success of this effort.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

国家科学基金会通过其公民创新挑战（CIVIC）以及SMART＆Connected Communities（S＆CC）计划支持各种有价值的技术和社会公民创新。尽管通过这些努力资助的许多项目对多个社区产生了重大且持久的影响，但其他项目则无法使翻译成可持续和可扩展。这种渴望将采用多阶段过程来确定成功翻译的基础的因素以及可能是障碍的因素。这种渴望的还将探索特定的步骤，干预措施和资源，这些步骤，干预措施和资源可以推动更多项目获得可持续，可扩展和长期成功。这项研究的重要部分是将单个项目与可能的想法，方法和资源联系起来，并记录过程和结果。USIGNITE将与NSF的Civic和S＆CC项目团队合作，以试点途径，以将其技术和政策成果部署到更大范围的部署中。美国IGNITE将分析S＆CC和CIVIC的现有NSF资助的研究项目，以确定在多个社区中可持续和成功部署的适用性。可以通过多种途径来完成部署，例如将技术旋转到初创企业，使技术和/或数据可作为其他人使用，保护知识产权，以保护知识产权，以保留忠诚的行业合作伙伴或联盟的价值，以及当地政府的采购。一些途径将利用已经提供这些服务的合作伙伴。这种渴望将有助于对智能社区中创新，包容和公平技术部署的发展及其社会和经济影响的更广泛的知识。能够积极影响公平，多样化人群的包容性，社区参与和公民信任的能力将是这项工作成功的重要组成部分。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点评估来支持的，并具有更广泛的影响。