SCC-CIVIC-FA Track B Design for Community Resilience: Participatory Civic Technology to Close the Last-Mile Disaster Relief Gap in Puerto Rico

SCC-CIVIC-FA 社区复原力 B 轨设计：参与式公民技术缩小波多黎各最后一英里的救灾差距

• 批准号: 2321969
• 负责人: Soledad Gaztambide-Arandes
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: FOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; FA; Track; Design

We seek to pilot a participatory civic technology initiative, re+connect, to close the last-mile disaster relief gap and create long-term resilience for underserved communities with software technology, data intelligence, and social infrastructure. Building on extensive collaborative research and design efforts from the past three years, we aim to mobilize, inform, and coordinate collective action across residents, community groups, and governmental and non-governmental entities in disaster management to direct the right responses, to the right places, at the right time. The pilot initiative integrates an accessible, reliable, and user-friendly software application with an inclusive community engagement program to enable and empower residents to act as “community ambassadors” to crowdsource key information to bridge the gap between essential resources and services provision and community needs in the face of disasters. Through the 12-month stage 2 period, we aim to crowdsource information for at least 50,000 residents from across Puerto Rico, with the goal of yielding a sustainable, scalable, and transferable initiative for the entire archipelago in the next five years. In the face of climate change, island, and coastal communities, such as those in Puerto Rico, will face more frequent and destructive disasters such as hurricanes and floods. Our initiative aims better prepare for future disasters through the following aspects: 1) Strengthen social bonds as the core of building resilience and survival mechanisms. 2) Integrate local knowledge to make disaster management more human-centered and effective. 3) Enhance collaboration as a path to building resilience and reducing risk. 4) Provide valuable lessons for building disaster resilience and risk reduction in other contexts.Our project uses participatory design research to build a civic technology initiative that enhances several key factors of community resilience: 1) including local knowledge and information into overall disaster mitigation and response activities; 2) supporting collaboration through enriching social capital within and across key stakeholder groups in disaster-prone areas; and 3) augmenting and facilitating prosocial behaviors by informal actors during emergency response. We bring together an interdisciplinary team to design, validate, and pilot a more adaptive and inclusive participatory civic technology solution in Puerto Rico, with implications for other relevant contexts such as the Caribbean islands, Central America, and the Gulf Coast of the United States. Our findings will contribute to an improved understanding of overcoming the challenges that hinder the effective management of disaster information and knowledge, leading to improved coordination and collaboration across individuals, community groups, and formal institutions to achieve disaster management goals.This project is jointly funded by CIVIC and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).The CIVIC program is jointly funded by NSF, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Energy.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.

我们寻求试行参与公民技术计划，Re+Connect，以缩小最后一英里的救灾差距，并通过软件技术，数据智能和社会基础设施为服务不足的社区创造长期的韧性。在过去三年来广泛的合作研究和设计工作的基础上，我们的目标是在灾难管理中的居民，社区团体以及政府和非政府实体之间动员，告知和协调集体行动，以在正确的时间将正确的回应转移到正确的地方。飞行员计划将一项可访问，可靠和用户友好的软件应用程序与包容性的社区参与计划集成在一起，以使和授权居民充当“社区大使”，以弥合面对灾难的基本资源和服务提供和社区需求之间差距的关键信息。在12个月的2阶段时期，我们的目标是向来自波多黎各的至少50,000名居民提供众包信息，目的是在未来五年内为整个Archivelago提供一项可持续，可扩展和可转让的计划。面对气候变化，岛屿和沿海社区（例如波多黎各的社区）将面临更频繁的破坏性灾难，例如飓风和地板。我们的倡议旨在通过以下各个方面更好地为将来的灾难做准备：1）加强社会纽带作为建筑韧性和生存机制的核心。 2）整合当地知识，以使灾难管理更加以人为本和有效。 3）加强协作作为建立弹性和降低风险的途径。 4）为在其他情况下建立灾难弹性和降低风险的方式提供了宝贵的教训。我们的项目使用参与设计研究来建立一项公民技术计划，以增强社区复原力的几个关键因素：1）在整体灾难缓解和反应活动中包括本地知识和信息； 2）通过在容易发生灾难的领域的主要利益相关者群体内部和跨越社会资本来支持合作； 3）在紧急响应期间，非正式参与者增强和支持亲社会行为。我们将一个跨学科的团队召集在一起，在波多黎各设计，验证和试点一个更适应性和包容性的参与公民技术解决方案，对加勒比海群岛，中美洲和美国墨西哥湾沿岸等其他相关环境产生了影响。我们的发现将有助于加深对克服挑战的挑战的理解，从而有效地管理灾难信息和知识，从而改善了个人，社区团体和实现灾难管理目标的个人，社区团体和正式机构的协调和协作。该项目由公民和既定计划共同资助，既定计划（EPSCOR）的既定计划（EPSCOR）。 NSF的法定使命，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准来评估，被认为是宝贵的支持。