Convergence NNA: Networking Indigenous Arctic and U.S. Southwest Communities on Knowledge Co-Production in Data Sciences

该奖项支持一个研究协调网络（RCN），该网络汇集了科学家和美国西南部的土著社区、阿拉斯加土著社区和部落社区，以促进对快速社会生态变化对这些社区的粮食安全和恢复能力构成的挑战的理解。土著知识和观点将与生物、地质、地理、人类学和信息科学的科学知识相结合，以便全面概述不同的研究人员和学者如何从不同的角度和不同的环境来处理粮食安全和恢复力问题。RCN的主要优势之一是它将在北方和南方之间以及西方科学和土著学术之间产生协同作用。此外，该网络还整合了来自信息科学和数据专业人员的见解，以探索将来自多个领域（包括土著和科学领域）的系统、数据和观点联系起来的方法。项目小组打算通过开发更有效的工具，在网络空间和社交媒体上共享数据，增加共享并解决土著社区对数据所有权和获取的关切问题。探索如何融合来自不同群体的想法将有助于促进融合科学和与土著社区共同生产知识。这个奖项是国家科学基金会促进融合努力的一部分。这个项目是融合的，因为它汇集了多种学科，专注于一个至关重要的社会问题。社会、自然和信息科学家和土著社区将专注于增加我们对阿拉斯加和美国西南部土著社区快速社会生态变化对这些社区粮食安全和恢复力的影响的理解。该项目不仅在如何结合科学学科来解决社会问题方面具有融合性，而且在国家科学基金会如何从根本上思考美国科学事业的社会建设方面也具有融合性。该RCN有可能通过探索北极正在发生的快速社会和环境变化，更有效地突出土著信息来源，为粮食安全和复原力研究增添新的视角。为了扩大对这些问题的视角和洞察力，RCN将把北极土著社区与美国西南部的部落联系起来，主要是在亚利桑那州和新墨西哥州。RCN有三个重点：1)土著知识的保存、可视化和共享；2)获取科学数据；3)本土数据主权。该项目将主要由土著组织推动和领导，但将包括跨学科的西方科学家，他们将从社会科学和物理科学两方面关注粮食安全和恢复力，讨论当前的研究议程、数据可用性，并鼓励土著合作伙伴的直接参与。RCN的一个更广泛的影响是在生活在不同地区但经历快速社会和环境变化的土著社区之间建立关系。RCN还将制定一项计划，以保存和可视化土著知识，并将其与科学数据连接起来。

This award supports a Research Coordinating Network (RCN) that brings together scientists and Indigenous communities, Alaska Native communities and Tribal communities in the U.S. Southwest, to advance understanding of the challenges rapid socioecological change pose to food security and resilience in these communities. Indigenous knowledge and perspectives will be combined with scientific knowledge across the biological, geological, geographic, anthropological, and information sciences to enable a comprehensive overview of how different investigators and scholars, from different perspectives and different environments, approach the issues of food security and resilience. One of the key strengths of the RCN is the synergy it will generate between North and South and between Western science and Indigenous scholarship. In addition, the network incorporates insights from information science and data professionals to explore ways to link systems, data and perspectives from multiple domains, both Indigenous and scientific. The project team intends to increase sharing and address issues of Indigenous communities concerns over data ownership and access by developing more effective tools for sharing data in cyberspace and on social media. Exploring how to merge ideas from diverse groups will contribute to the advancement of both Convergence science and the co-production of knowledge with Indigenous communities. This award is part of NSF's effort to promote convergence. The project is convergent because it brings together a diversity of disciplines to concentrate on a question of critical social importance. Social, natural, and information scientists and Indigenous communities will focus on increasing our understanding of the impacts of rapid socioecological change in Indigenous communities from Alaska and the U.S. Southwest on food security and resilience in these communities. The project is convergent not just in how it combines scientific disciplines to address a societal problem, but also in how NSF might fundamentally think about the social construction of the scientific enterprise in the United States.This RCN has the potential to add a new and fresh perspective to research on food security and resilience through exploration of the rapid social and environmental changes ongoing in the Arctic, by more effectively highlighting Indigenous sources of information. To broaden the perspective and insight into these issues, the RCN will connect Arctic Indigenous communities with tribes in the U.S. Southwest, mainly in Arizona and New Mexico. The RCN has three foci: 1) preservation, visualization, and sharing of Indigenous knowledge; 2) access to scientific data; and 3) Indigenous data sovereignty. The project will be largely driven and led by Indigenous organizations but will include interdisciplinary Western scientists focused on food security and resilience from both the social and physical sciences to discuss current research agendas, data availability, and encourage the direct engagement of Indigenous partners. One Broader Impact of the RCN is the creation of relationships between Indigenous communities living in different areas but experiencing rapid social and environmental changes. The RCN will also create a plan for preserving and visualizing Indigenous Knowledge and connecting it to scientific data.