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，以应对国家重要性的挑战，并将在不久的将来为社会提供有价值的成果。这个融合加速器会议提案的更广泛的影响和潜在的社会效益是通过利用先进技术来解决制度性种族主义，这些技术有可能以前所未有的方式破坏制度性种族主义。COVID-19大流行对黑人社区造成的不同负担，最近在明尼阿波利斯和路易斯维尔发生的高调警察谋杀黑人事件，以及长期存在的种族教育成就差距，都强调了拟议项目的必要性。制度性种族主义目前主要表现在刑事司法、教育和医疗保健领域。该项目旨在探索利用技术建立更有社会意识的制度，以减轻体制上的种族主义。该项目的主要专家将利用他们的才能，观点和资源来帮助该项目记录技术注入的想法，这些想法有可能以过去没有经历过的方式破坏制度性种族主义。只有跨学科和跨部门的有远见的人才能推动结束体制性种族主义，他们能够看到一个并非遥远或无法实现的机会世界。将致力于该项目的实地专家有能力汇集努力，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。PI计划在学术界、非营利组织、政府，特别是技术行业等部门广泛传播技术报告中的调查结果。最后，该项目也有可能扩大研究的范围和影响力，包括HBCU学者。该项目将推进人类技术前沿的技术信息系统的知识，这些系统有可能减轻刑事司法，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工业界的跨学科和跨部门思想领袖，他们具有提出技术创新的能力，这些创新最有潜力创造促进刑事司法、教育和卫生系统中种族平等所需的人文机构。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，这将是实现该项目最终目标的基础，该项目最终目标是制定一份技术报告，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，供各国领导人审查和评估，这将确保研讨会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融合加速器轨道主题的基础。PI组织，少数群体优质教育网络（QEM）在研究和方案方面有30年的经验，已经召集了开展拟议活动所需的技术顾问。该项目还将战略性地利用HBCU研究人员在推动非洲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.