SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B Community Resilience Catalyst: Co-Designing an Integrated Participatory Mapping System for Enhancing Disaster Resilience through Community Engagement

2017年9月，波多黎各遭受了灾难性的破坏，因为5级飓风伊尔玛和玛丽亚直接登陆该岛。对人民健康和安全的影响是毁灭性的和持久的。由于气候变化，像波多黎各这样的地方正面临着更频繁和更具破坏性的灾害;各级政府机构和办事处越来越多地努力解决其资源和能力有限的问题，以满足这些受影响社区的需求。虽然在官方灾害管理系统之外运作的个人和社区团体在贡献资源以及时间、知识和技能方面表现出了适应性、创新性和反应能力，但他们的价值在很大程度上被低估，导致当地减少灾害风险的信息和知识被边缘化。该项目的目标是使个人和社区参与并增强其权能，使其成为抗灾能力的一个更不可分割的组成部分，特别是消除结构性和社会障碍，从而改善救济服务和物资的分配、协调和交付。社区绘图平台，以当地信息和知识为基础。它将在波多黎各开发，但可以作为类似地点的努力的典范，包括加勒比群岛和美国墨西哥湾沿岸。该方法汇集了公民、社区组织、灾害管理和援助机构、政府实体、私营部门和研究机构，在协作数据和治理结构的支持下，共同设计和试点这个用户友好、可靠且安全的技术平台。该项目整合了社区参与、伙伴关系建设和技术信息系统，将通过加强社区社会联系、改善地方灾害信息和知识包容性以及促进各利益攸关方之间的合作和协调来提高抗灾能力，以实现灾害管理目标。该项目是响应公民创新挑战计划，轨道B-恢复自然灾害，是NSF和国土安全部之间的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

In September 2017, Puerto Rico, suffered catastrophic damage as category-5 Hurricanes Irma and Maria made direct landfalls on the island. The effect on people’s health and safety was devastating and long-lasting. Due to climate change, places like Puerto Rico are confronting more frequent and destructive disasters; government agencies and offices at all levels are increasingly grappling with the limitations of their resources and capacity to meet the needs of these impacted communities. While individuals and community groups operating outside of the official disaster management system demonstrate adaptability, innovation, and responsiveness in contributing resources together with time, knowledge, and skills, they have been largely undervalued, leading to the marginalization of local information and knowledge in disaster risk reduction. The goal of this project is to engage and empower individuals and communities to become a more integral part of disaster resilience, specifically addressing the structural and social barriers that will lead to improvement in allocation, coordination, and delivery of relief services and supplies.This project aims to enhance disaster resilience and fill information gaps through development of a new participatory, community mapping platform based on local information and knowledge. It will be developed in Puerto Rico but can serve as a model for efforts in similar locations including the Caribbean islands and the Gulf Coast of the US. The approach brings together citizens, community-based organizations, disaster management and aid agencies, government entities, the private sector, and research institutions to co-design and pilot this user-friendly, reliable, and secure technology platform, supported by collaborative data and governance structures. Integrating community engagement, partnership building, and technology information systems, this project will improve disaster resilience by strengthening community social connectedness, improving local disaster information and knowledge inclusion, and facilitating collaboration and coordination across stakeholders to achieve disaster management goals. This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program, Track B—Resilience to Natural Disasters—and is a collaboration between NSF and the Department of Homeland Security.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.