Standard: Collaborative Research: Changing Ethical STEM Culture through Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Analysis of Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology

标准：协作研究：通过跨学科对话和人道主义信息和通信技术分析改变道德 STEM 文化

• 批准号: 1926036
• 负责人: Omar Abou-Samra
• 金额: $ 40.77万
• 依托单位: National Headquarters American Red Cross
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1926036&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Standard; Collaborative; Research; Changing; Ethical

The humanitarian sector has been engaged in ethical STEM activities for many decades since success in humanitarian practice is based on the ability to deliver aid according to moral and ethical principles. Humanitarian STEM work can thus expose tensions between the ethical imperatives of humanitarian missions (e.g., accountability to those being assisted), and the typical goals of STEM design, development, and use (e.g., efficiency). This project examines the implementation of STEM within a humanitarian environment to offer new understandings, priorities, and directions for changing ethical cultures within the broader STEM arena. It will focus on understanding how humanitarian ethical imperatives are addressed in the design, development, and implementation of STEM, and how understanding of these processes can be translated into frameworks for successfully achieving more ethically-centered STEM cultures. To do so, the Red Cross Global Disaster Preparedness Center will partner with University of Washington to systematically evaluate the Red Cross's efforts to design and develop STEM in alignment with humanitarian ethical imperatives. This human-centered approach will integrate perspectives from practitioners, STEM experts, and aid beneficiaries to reveal practical challenges and solutions for achieving more ethical STEM cultures. This research will provide data and information for improving how STEM technologies can be integrated into humanitarian work in a more ethical manner, and for cultivating more ethical STEM cultures.This project examines how STEM information and communications technologies have been implemented in humanitarian working environments. The goal is to enhance understanding of how humanitarian ethics can be built into the design, development, and implementation of ICTs, and how lessons learned from case studies involving the Red Cross can be used to develop new frameworks for cultivating more ethically-centered STEM cultures. This will be accomplished through analyses of case studies where humanitarian ICT projects have been used to support Red Cross humanitarian work through a combination of literature reviews, secondary data analysis, and interviews with relevant stakeholders across the design, development, and implementation process. Phase 1 involves collecting secondary data, identifying case studies, and developing research instruments. Phase 2 involves analyzing the case studies. Phase 3 involves assembling a practitioner-academic consortium, sharing findings, and facilitating dialogue at Red Cross Global Disaster Preparedness Center workshops to create practical recommendations for ethical design of Humanitarian information and communications technologies. Phases 4 and 5 involve preparing ethically-centered STEM solutions, taking lessons to the humanitarian and academic communities for application and assessment, and disseminating project findings.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.

几十年来，人道主义部门一直在从事合乎道德的STEM活动，因为人道主义实践的成功取决于根据道德和伦理原则提供援助的能力。因此，人道主义STEM工作可以暴露人道主义任务的道德要求之间的紧张关系（例如，对被援助者的责任），以及STEM设计、开发和使用的典型目标（例如，效率）。该项目考察STEM在人道主义环境中的实施，为更广泛的STEM竞技场内改变道德文化提供新的理解、优先事项和方向。它将侧重于理解如何在STEM的设计，开发和实施中解决人道主义道德要求，以及如何将对这些过程的理解转化为成功实现以道德为中心的STEM文化的框架。为此，红十字会全球备灾中心将与华盛顿大学合作，系统地评估红十字会在设计和开发STEM方面所做的努力，以符合人道主义道德要求。这种以人为本的方法将整合从业者，STEM专家和援助受益人的观点，以揭示实现更多道德STEM文化的实际挑战和解决方案。该研究将为改善STEM技术如何以更符合道德的方式融入人道主义工作提供数据和信息，并培养更符合道德的STEM文化。该项目探讨了STEM信息和通信技术如何在人道主义工作环境中实施。其目标是加强对如何将人道主义伦理纳入信息和通信技术的设计、开发和实施的理解，以及如何利用涉及红十字会的案例研究中吸取的经验教训来制定新的框架，以培养更加以伦理为中心的STEM文化。 这将通过对人道主义信通技术项目用于支持红十字会人道主义工作的案例研究进行分析来实现，方法是在设计、开发和实施过程中结合文献审查、二级数据分析以及与相关利益攸关方的访谈。第一阶段包括收集次级数据、确定案例研究和开发研究工具。第二阶段涉及分析案例研究。第三阶段包括组建一个人道主义工作者-学术联盟，分享研究成果，并在红十字全球备灾中心的研讨会上促进对话，为人道主义信息和通信技术的道德设计提出实用建议。第四阶段和第五阶段包括准备以伦理为中心的STEM解决方案，为人道主义和学术界提供应用和评估经验教训，以及传播项目成果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。