CIVIC-PG Track B: Understanding Native American Tribal Residents Needs through Better Data and Query Systems

CIVIC-PG Track B：通过更好的数据和查询系统了解美洲原住民部落居民的需求

• 批准号: 2228275
• 负责人: Hosagrahar Jagadish
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228275&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CIVIC; PG; Track; Understanding; Native

The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBB) administration currently works with a patchwork of data silos that limits their ability to identify and address the needs of their residents. This project defines a central “database of record” containing a comprehensive set of indicators about LTBB residents and their community, such as their demographics, health, education, the economy, the natural environment, employment, housing, public safety and transportation. The database incorporates tribal knowledge in addition to standard community indicators, and includes key terms from the tribal language. This project is an important component of supporting tribal nations’ effort to develop data strategies and data sovereignty. The project incorporates technical advances in the design of this database, including: integrating existing data sets with large variations; interpolating missing values; addressing data equity, using this database to inform future data collection strategies, and making the database easy to use by tribal government employees in multiple departments and with varying levels of technical skills. Data collection is expensive, and hence must be used sparingly. This project uses a smart mix of integration and interpolation to minimize the need for fresh data collection. It builds upon the team's past work on data equity to ensure that the results obtained are equitable. In past research, there have been many recent technical advances that facilitate collecting, integrating, and analyzing data. Nevertheless, such advances often address one component of the data-driven decision making process, and integrating multiple such advances into a data project can be challenging because of the many real-life “wrinkles” that get assumed away in most academic research. This project identifies and addresses key considerations that are often missing in an academic research environment, and thus advances research generalizability through real-life deployment in a scenario with high social value. In Stage 2 of this project, the team will build a database of record, along with query facilities that are easy to use. The resulting database of record will drive the strategic direction of the tribal government, including through better targeted effort in seeking and allocating resources, and through better identifying citizens with unmet needs.This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track B. Bridging the gap between essential resources and services & community needs—and is a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Energy.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.

小特拉弗斯湾奥达瓦印第安人（LTBB）管理局目前正在处理一系列数据孤岛，这些数据孤岛限制了他们识别和解决居民需求的能力。该项目确定了一个中央“记录数据库”，其中载有关于LTBB居民及其社区的一整套指标，如人口统计、健康、教育、经济、自然环境、就业、住房、公共安全和交通。该数据库除标准社区指标外，还包括部落知识，并包括部落语言的关键术语。该项目是支持部落国家努力制定数据战略和数据主权的重要组成部分。该项目在设计数据库时采用了技术进步，包括：整合差异很大的现有数据集;填补缺失值;解决数据公平问题;利用该数据库为今后的数据收集战略提供信息;使该数据库便于多个部门和技术技能水平不同的部落政府雇员使用。 数据收集是昂贵的，因此必须谨慎使用。该项目使用集成和插值的巧妙组合，以最大限度地减少对新数据收集的需求。它建立在该团队过去关于数据公平的工作基础上，以确保获得的结果是公平的。在过去的研究中，有许多最近的技术进步，促进收集，整合和分析数据。尽管如此，这些进步通常解决数据驱动决策过程的一个组成部分，并且将多个这样的进步整合到一个数据项目中可能具有挑战性，因为大多数学术研究中都假设了许多现实生活中的“皱纹”。 该项目确定并解决了学术研究环境中经常缺少的关键因素，从而通过在具有高社会价值的场景中进行实际部署来提高研究的普遍性。在这个项目的第二阶段，团队将建立一个记录数据库，沿着易于使用的查询工具。 由此产生的记录数据库将推动部落政府的战略方向，包括通过更有针对性的努力寻求和分配资源，并通过更好地确定未满足需求的公民。弥合基本资源和服务社区需求之间的差距-是NSF、国土安全部和能源部之间的合作。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。