Transdisciplinary Convergence to Accelerate Strategies to Mitigate Institutional Racism in Criminal Justice, Education, and Health Systems

NSF融合加速器支持以使用为灵感、以团队为基础的多学科努力，以应对国家重要性的挑战，并将在不久的将来产生对社会有价值的成果。这项融合加速器会议提案的更广泛的影响和潜在的社会益处是，通过利用先进技术来解决体制性种族主义问题，这些技术有可能以前所未有的方式破坏体制性种族主义。新冠肺炎疫情给黑人社区带来的不同负担，最近高调参与明尼阿波利斯和路易斯维尔黑人谋杀案的警察，以及教育领域长期存在的种族成就差距，都突显了拟议项目的必要性。制度性种族主义目前明显存在于刑事司法、教育和医疗保健领域。该项目旨在探索利用技术建立更具社会意识的系统，以减轻制度性种族主义。该项目的顶尖专家将利用他们的才华、观点和资源来帮助该项目记录注入技术的想法，这些想法有可能以过去未曾经历过的方式破坏机构种族主义。只有跨学术学科和部门的有远见卓识的人才能推动结束制度性种族主义，他们看到的是一个并不遥远或遥不可及的机会。将致力于这一项目的实地专家有能力集中力量，推动人类技术在解决刑事司法、教育和卫生系统中的种族不平等问题上的作用。私人投资促进机构计划在学术界、非营利组织、政府，特别是科技业等部门广泛传播技术报告中的调查结果。最后，这个项目还有可能通过纳入HBCU奖学金来扩大研究的范围和影响。这个项目将促进人类技术前沿的技术信息系统的知识，这些系统有可能减少刑事司法、教育和卫生劳动力中的制度性种族主义。虚拟研讨会将汇集来自社会、行为和计算科学以及行业的跨学科和跨部门的思想领袖，他们被证明有能力提出技术创新，这些创新最有潜力创建必要的人文机构，以促进刑事司法、教育和卫生系统中的种族平等。研讨会的计划优化并建立在先前确定的尖端研究的基础上，这些研究将是实现该项目的最终目标的基础，即开发一份技术报告，为影响刑事司法、教育和医疗保健的黑人社区现有差距提供解决方案。我们计划在讲习班之前分发有关的主要研究报告，供领导人审查和评价，这将确保讲习班随后的讨论了解当前的情况。此外，每个研讨会的最终报告将有可能成为NSF融合加速器跟踪主题的基础。PIS组织，少数民族优质教育网络(QEM)在研究和方案方面拥有30年的经验，这些研究和方案汇集了开展拟议活动所需的技术顾问。该项目还将战略性地使用HBCU研究人员在推动非裔美国人进步方面的历史悠久的专业知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The NSF Convergence Accelerator supports use-inspired, team-based, multidisciplinary efforts that address challenges of national importance and will produce deliverables of value to society in the near future. The broader impact and potential societal benefit of this Convergence Accelerator conference proposal is to address institutional racism by utilizing advanced technologies that have the potential to disrupt institutional racism in ways that have not been experienced previously. The disparate burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black communities, the recent high profile police involved murders of Black people in Minneapolis and Louisville, and the longstanding racial achievement gaps in education underscore the need for the proposed project. Institutional racism currently manifestsheavily within criminal justice, education, and healthcare. The project seeks to explore the use of technology in building more socially conscious systems to mitigate institutional racism. Leading experts in this project will leverage their talents, perspectives, and resources to help the project document technology-infused ideas that have potential to disrupt institutional racism in ways that have not been experienced in the past. Ending institutional racism will only be advanced by visionaries across academic disciplines and sectors who can see a universe of opportunity that is not distant or unattainable. The field experts who will commit to this project have the capacity to converge efforts to advance human technology in addressing racial inequities in criminal justice, education, and health systems. The PIs have plan to broadly disseminate findings included in the technical report across sectors including academia, non-profits, government, and especially the technology industry. Finally, this project also has the potential to broaden the scope and influence of research by including HBCU scholars.This project will advance knowledge of technologically-informed systems at the Human Technology Frontier that have the potential to mitigate institutional racism in the criminal justice, education, and health workforce. The virtual workshops will bring together transdisciplinary and cross-sector thought leaders from social, behavioral and computational sciences and industry with demonstrated capacity to propose technological innovations that have the most potential to create the humanistic agency necessary to advance racial equity within the criminal justice, education, and health systems. The plan for the workshops optimizes and builds upon prior identified cutting-edge research that will be foundational to achieving the project’s ultimate goal of developing a technical report that provides solutions to existing gaps affecting the Black community in criminal justice, education, and healthcare. Our plan to distribute relevant major studies prior to the workshops for the leaders to review and evaluate will ensure that ensuing discussions at the workshop are informed by the current landscape. Further, final reports from each workshop session will have the potential to form the basis for a NSF Convergence Accelerator Track topic. The PIs organization, Quality Education for Minorities Network (QEM) has 30 years of experience with research and programs that have assembled technical advisors necessary to conduct the proposed activities. The project will also strategically use HBCU researchers for their time-honored expertise with advancing African American progress.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.