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，多学科的努力，解决国家重要性的挑战，并将在不久的将来产生对社会有价值的可交付成果。这次“融合加速器”会议提案的更广泛影响和潜在社会效益是，通过利用先进技术，以前所未有的方式打破体制性种族主义，解决体制性种族主义问题。2019冠状病毒病大流行给黑人社区带来了不同的负担，最近在明尼阿波利斯和路易斯维尔发生了引人注目的警察谋杀黑人事件，以及长期以来在教育方面的种族成就差距，这些都强调了拟议项目的必要性。目前，在刑事司法、教育和医疗保健领域，制度性种族主义表现严重。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。该项目的主要专家将利用他们的才能、观点和资源，帮助项目记录技术注入的想法，这些想法有可能以过去从未经历过的方式破坏制度性种族主义。只有跨学科和部门的远见卓识者才能推动结束制度性种族主义，他们能够看到广阔的机会并非遥远或遥不可及。将致力于这一项目的实地专家有能力集中力量推进人类技术，解决刑事司法、教育和卫生系统中的种族不平等问题。ppi计划广泛传播技术报告中的发现，包括学术界，非营利组织，政府，特别是技术行业。最后，该项目也有可能通过包括HBCU学者来扩大研究范围和影响。该项目将促进对人类技术前沿技术知情系统的了解，这些系统有可能减轻刑事司法、教育和卫生工作人员中的体制性种族主义。虚拟研讨会将汇集来自社会、行为和计算科学以及工业界的跨学科和跨部门的思想领袖，他们有能力提出最有潜力的技术创新，以创建促进刑事司法、教育和卫生系统内种族平等所必需的人文机构。研讨会的计划优化并建立在先前确定的前沿研究的基础上，这些研究将是实现项目最终目标的基础，该目标是编写一份技术报告，为影响黑人社区在刑事司法、教育和医疗保健方面的现有差距提供解决方案。我们计划在研讨会之前分发相关的主要研究报告，供领导人审查和评估，以确保研讨会随后的讨论了解当前形势。此外，每次研讨会的最终报告将有可能成为国家科学基金会融合加速器跟踪主题的基础。PIs组织，少数民族素质教育网络（QEM）在研究和项目方面有30年的经验，已经召集了必要的技术顾问来开展拟议的活动。该项目还将战略性地利用HBCU研究人员在促进非裔美国人进步方面的长期专业知识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.