CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Regional Experiments for the Future of Work in America

这项研究将为美国中西部以计算机为基础的经济发展的一系列新的区域实验提供丰富的见解，这些实验植根于政府、工业和大学之间的合作，将其卓越的制造传统推向下一代。该研究将为社会技术干预的发展提供信息，支持自下而上的创新程序和紧急结果。这些影响将通过对数据收集和分析技术的前沿研究来了解。该项目强调边缘化或被排除在外的利益相关者，这将为如何确保这类系统在过程的各个阶段最大限度地发挥利益相关者的作用提供见解。研究成果包括确定可转移的实践、政策和框架。这些将为如何在以信息、资本和人才流动为特征的当代经济背景下追求创新议程提供可行的策略；新兴的工作形式；当代社会技术基础设施。这项研究还将提供方法，帮助研究人员更好地了解区域范围内利益相关者的需求，特别关注传统上服务不足的人群。该项目将包括深入的人种学研究，并与以下两组利益相关者进行互动：(1)在构思、设计和实施fab城市、物联网城市和智能区等技术城市实验方面处于领先地位的人；(2)服务不足和被排斥的人群，他们最直接受到这些技术进步的影响。通过对社区利益相关者进行社会技术干预，研究促进了他们扩大参与的承诺。具体而言，本研究将通过厘清城市区域自身的区域优势来构建自我效能感。该项目将通过以下方式实现：(1)技能培养，包括使用数字制造等新技术培养技能；(2)发展社区集体行动的能力，支持民主和自决；(3)区域知识生产和传播，包括成功的社区模式、行动和传播策略；(4)包容不同的参与者，尽管他们有不同的历史、遗产、抱负和关注的问题，即培养一种利用信息技术建设更美好未来的社区意识。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。

This research will provide rich insights into a new line of regional experiments with computer-based economic development in the American Midwest, rooted in collaborations between government, industry, and universities to drive their traditions of manufacturing excellence into the next generation. The research will inform the development of sociotechnical interventions supporting bottom-up innovation procedures and emergent outcomes. Such implications will be informed by cutting edge research on data collection and analysis techniques. The project's emphasis on marginalized or excluded stakeholders will offer insights on how to ensure such systems maximize stakeholder agency at all stages of the process. Research outcomes include the identification of transferable practices, policies, and frameworks. These will contribute actionable tactics on how to pursue innovation agendas in contemporary economic contexts characterized by the mobility of information, capital, and talent; emerging forms of work; and contemporary sociotechnical infrastructures. This research will also contribute methods to help researchers better understand stakeholder needs at the regional scale, with a particular focus on populations that have traditionally been underserved. The project will include in-depth ethnographic research and stakeholder-driven engagements with the following two groups: (1) those who are at the forefront of conceiving, designing and implementing techno-urban experiments of fab cities, Internet of Things cities, and smart zones; (2) underserved and excluded populations, most immediately affected by these technological advances. By conducting sociotechnical interventions with community stakeholders, the research advances their commitments to broaden participation. Specifically, this research will build self-efficacy through the clarification of an urban area's own regional advantage. The project will do so through (1) skill building, including building skills with new technologies such as digital fabrication; (2) developing community's capacities to act in a collective way, supporting democracy and self-determination; (3) regional knowledge production and dissemination, including successful community models, actions, and communication tactics; and (4) including diverse actors in spite of their different histories, legacies, aspirations, and concerns, that is, fostering a sense of community in using information technology to build a better future.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.