EAGER: SCC: Scoping an NSF Prize Challenge For Smart and Connected Communities

该项目旨在设计和构建智能互联社区(S和CC)奖挑战赛，为社区广泛而紧迫的技术和社会复杂需求提供创新的解决方案。提倡者将利用研究人员、社区、慈善和行业的专业知识来确定和规划奖项挑战，包括：1)确定奖项挑战主题；2)从慈善和企业界建立和招募资金合作伙伴联盟；以及3)为奖项挑战制定治理结构、启动计划和审查程序。该项目的研究部分将测试一个新框架的创建，该框架将与慈善和行业的资助者合作，推动真正综合的、以社区为重点的研究。这种新的结构引入了一些问题，如如何构建以社区为中心的研究，以及这些研究如何整合到州和地方政府、公共规划、慈善项目、行业研发活动以及跨社区合作的更广泛的生态系统中。这一过程将测试更具指导性的研究提示对研究人员和社区回应质量的影响。它还将寻求建立资金合作伙伴关系，以拓宽从研究到部署的管道，从而增强S与CC研究的技术和社会影响。该项目将借鉴MetroLab Network与大学、社区、慈善机构和其他关注公民的利益相关者合作的经验。该团队将与一系列合作伙伴合作开展这一项目，其中包括S主题的主题专家；其中包括合作伙伴，他们共同开发了如何将数据和技术整合到政策规划和实施过程中的新方法。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project seeks to design and structure a Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) Prize Challenge that provides innovative solutions to technically and socially complex needs that are of broad and pressing interest to communities. The proposer will harness the expertise of researchers, communities, philanthropy, and industry to scope and plan the Prize Challenge, including: 1) identification of prize challenge topics ; 2) the structuring and recruitment of a consortium of funding partners from the philanthropic and corporate community; and 3) the development of a governance structure, launch plan, and review process for the prize challenge.The research component of this project will test the creation of a new framework that will drive truly integrative, community-focused research done in partnership with funders from philanthropy and industry. This new structure introduces questions about how community-focused research is crafted and how that research integrates into the broader ecosystem of state and local government, public planning, philanthropic programming, industry research and development (R&D) activities, and collaboration across communities. This process will test the impact of more guided research prompts on the quality of responses from researchers and communities. It will also seek to create funding partnerships that will broaden the research-to-deployment pipeline, thereby enhancing the technical and societal impact of S&CC research. The project will draw from MetroLab Network's experience working with universities, communities, philanthropies and other civic-focused stakeholders. The team will work with a range of partners to undertake this project, including subject-matter experts across S&CC topics; it includes partners who have collaboratively developed new approaches to how data and technology are integrated in the policy planning and implementation process.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.