SCC-PG: Park WiFi as a BRIDGE to Community Resilience

城市绿地是基础设施改善和减灾方面尚未开发的资产。通过宽带基础设施增强的绿地可以发挥三个关键功能，从而提高个人、基础设施和社区的复原力：（1）促进整体公园使用的便利设施;（2）在正常时期提供信息和安全工具，在自然灾害期间提供缓解措施;以及（3）作为将WiFi接入传播到邻近居民区的桥梁-即，WiFi到没有访问的家庭。该项目提出了一种新的模式，通过互联网和数字绿色空间曝光（BRIDGE）建立弹性，利用现成的WiFi技术，新颖的算法，社区资产和当地合作伙伴关系，以降低绿色空间WiFi的成本并确保长期治理。BRIDGE通过从地理上邻近的社区捐赠者（例如，学校、教堂、社区中心）。BRIDGE将通过利益相关者的参与以及共享基础设施的协作设计和管理，在社区复原力方面实现可衡量的、富有成效的转变。在这份提案中，马里兰州国家首都公园和规划委员会、乔治王子县公园和娱乐部（M-NCPPC）与马里兰州大学合作，共同设计、部署和评估一个绿地WiFi基础设施系统试点。BRIDGE的可扩展、可复制和协作流程将成为一个可行的解决方案，使绿地成为宽带基础设施的利益相关者，为其他社区合作伙伴提供所需的治理稳定性，使其成为带宽捐赠者和长期合作者。（1）通过社区共同设计、管理和长期支持，为绿地WiFi基础设施提供融资、维护和扩展的新颖、可扩展的方法;（2）评估和扩大复原力指标，包括：（a）通过参与式设计和治理过程支持的社区资本;（B）以绿色空间为新社区锚的教育和数字接入公平;（c）通过WiFi绿色空间接入支持的健康。BRIDGE率先对社区、基础设施和个人复原力进行了可行的研究，并为现实世界的条件创造了一个可行的解决方案，可以成为全国社区复原力的典范。此外，它将通过积极参与社区青年，大学生，相关技术和专业发展计划以及参与多学科研究的利益相关者，包括公共安全官员，来推进国家K-12和专业教育优先事项。公园的更广泛好处包括：（a）公共安全干预;（B）被动计数器，为安全巡逻提供信息;（c）用数字组件补充教育方案。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。

Urban greenspaces are untapped assets in infrastructure improvement and disaster mitigation. Greenspace augmented with broadband infrastructure can serve three crucial functions resulting in individual, infrastructure, and community resilience: (1) an amenity to boost overall park use; (2) an information and safety tool during normal times and mitigator during natural disasters; and (3) as a bridge to propagate WiFi access into contiguous residential neighborhoods - i.e., WiFi to homes without access. The project proposes a new model to Build Resilience through the Internet and Digital Greenspace Exposure (BRIDGE), leveraging off-the-shelf WiFi technology, novel algorithms, community assets, and local partnerships to lower the cost of greenspace WiFi and ensure long-term governance. BRIDGE adapts a sustainable WiFi infrastructure through direct donations of internet bandwidth from geographically proximate community donors (e.g., schools, churches, community centers). BRIDGE will lead to measurable, productive shifts in community resilience through stakeholder engagement and collaborative design and management of shared infrastructure. In this proposal, Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, Department of Parks and Recreation, Prince George’s County (M-NCPPC), partners with the University of Maryland to co-design, deploy, and evaluate a pilot a greenspace WiFi infrastructure system. BRIDGE’s scalable, replicable, and collaborative process will serve as a viable solution where greenspaces become broadband infrastructure stakeholders, providing governance stability needed for other community partners to join as bandwidth donors and long-term collaborators.This project enables several socio-technical contributions: (1) a novel, scalable methodology for financing, maintaining, and expanding greenspace WiFi infrastructure via community co-design, management, and long-term support; (2) assessing and expanding resilience indicators including: (a) community capital supported through participatory design and governance processes; (b) education and digital access equity with greenspaces as a new community anchor; and (c) wellness, bolstered by WiFi greenspace access. BRIDGE spearheads actionable research for the community, infrastructure, and individual resilience and creates a viable solution for real-world conditions that can be a model for community resilience across the country. Moreover, it will advance national K-12 and professional education priorities by actively involving community youth; university students; related technical and professional development programs; and stakeholders who engage in multi-disciplinary research including public safety officers. Broader benefits for Parks include the potential for: (a) public safety interventions; (b) passive counters to inform security patrols; and (c) supplementing educational programming with digital components. Pending a successful pilot, a systemwide rollout of WiFi in all M-NCPPC greenspaces is envisioned.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.