Spokes: SMALL: SOUTH: Smart Privacy for Smart Cities: A Research Collaborative to Protect Privacy and Use Data Responsibly

当今的城市和社区及其居民之间的联系日益紧密，决策由可操作的实时数据提供信息。数据正在使现代城市和当地社区变得更快、更安全，以及更可持续、更宜居和更公平。与此同时，智慧城市技术引发了人们对个人隐私、自主权、选择权和可能滥用的担忧。政府官员提出了一些重要的问题，比如谁应该拥有数据，面向公众的技术的隐私保护如何工作，谁以及如何与公众就隐私进行沟通等等。该项目的长期愿景是帮助市政领导人加强以负责任的方式收集、使用和共享数据的能力。这将有助于在应用程序和地理边界之间发展隐私保护创新，以造福公众。通过这种方式，智慧城市Spoke的智能隐私将有助于提高公众对隐私相关问题的认识、理解和参与，最终促进公众对智慧城市技术和当地政府的信任。智慧城市Spoke的智能隐私是由FPF教育和创新基金会（FPF EIF）领导的一个合作项目。它将开展三项相互关联的活动，以帮助城市/社区创新者了解并将隐私考虑和保护纳入智慧城市项目。首先，Spoke将为智慧城市项目制定一个隐私风险评估框架，包括关于应该实施哪些政策、实践和问责结构的指导，以及如何权衡新的或扩展的数据技术的好处与随之而来的隐私和安全风险。该框架将具有去识别组件，因为去识别是组织可以采取的主要措施之一，以保护隐私的方式保护和共享数据。其次，Spoke将为智慧城市和社区建立一个隐私领导者网络，帮助市政官员更好地理解、沟通和协作解决隐私问题和原则。最后，Spoke将与MetroLab Network合作举办两个研讨会，MetroLab Network是一个由40多个城市-大学合作伙伴组成的国家网络，旨在推进应对城市挑战的技术方法。这些讲习班将有助于启动隐私领导人网络;向网络成员介绍隐私风险评估框架;并确定进一步合作和研究的领域，特别是在将框架应用于具体技术和数据用途方面。预期项目成果包括广泛传播隐私风险评估框架并在特定地区采用;通过隐私领导者网络和相关研讨会发展新的合作和伙伴关系;作为总体成果，提高公民领导者对隐私保护的知识，理解和应用，以实现智慧城市和隐私的实践标准。该项目将支持和利用Hub网络，特别是南方大数据中心，NSF的智能和互联社区计划，以及城市大学合作伙伴的MetroLab网络。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

Today's cities and communities, and their residents, are increasingly connected, and decisions are informed by actionable, real-time data. Data is making modern cities and local communities faster and safer, as well as more sustainable, livable, and equitable. At the same time, smart city technologies raise concerns about individuals' privacy, autonomy, choice, and possible misuse. Government officials are raising important questions about who should own data, how privacy protections for public-facing technologies work, who and how to communicate with the public about privacy, and more. The long-term vision of the project is to help municipal leaders strengthen their ability to collect, use, and share data in a responsible manner. This will help grow privacy-preserving innovations across applications and geographic boundaries for the public good. In this way, the Smart Privacy for Smart Cities Spoke will serve to increase public knowledge, understanding and engagement with privacy-related concerns, and ultimately promote the public's trust in smart city technologies and in their local government.The Smart Privacy for Smart Cities Spoke is a collaborative project led by the FPF Education and Innovation Foundation (FPF EIF). It will undertake three interrelated activities to help city/community innovators understand and incorporate privacy considerations and protections into smart city projects. First, the Spoke will produce a privacy risk assessment framework for smart city projects, including guidance on what policies, practices and accountability structures should be put in place and how to weigh benefits of new or expanded data techniques against attendant privacy and security risks. The framework will feature a de-identification component as de-identification is one of the primary measures that organizations can take to protect and share data in a privacy-preserving manner. Second, the Spoke will establish a network of privacy leaders for smart cities and communities, helping municipal officials better understand, communicate, and collaboratively address privacy issues and principles. Lastly, the Spoke will hold two workshops in partnership with MetroLab Network, a national network of 40+ city-university partnerships advancing technological approaches to urban challenges. The workshops will serve to launch the privacy leaders network; educate network members about the privacy risk assessment framework; and identify areas for further collaboration and research, particularly in applying the framework to specific technologies and data uses. Expected project outcomes include wide dissemination of the privacy risk assessment framework and its adoption in specific localities; development of new collaborations and partnerships through the privacy leaders network and associated workshops; and as an overall outcome, the advancement of civic leaders' knowledge, understanding, and application of privacy protection(s) toward standards of practice for smart cities and privacy. The project will support and leverage the Hub Network, in particular the South Big Data Hub, NSF's Smart and Connected Communities program, and the MetroLab Network of city-university partners.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.