Standard: Collaborative Research: Changing Ethical STEM Culture through Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Analysis of Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology

几十年来，人道主义部门一直从事道德STEM活动，因为人道主义实践的成功是基于根据道德和伦理原则提供援助的能力。因此，人道主义STEM工作可以暴露人道主义任务的道德要求（例如，对受援者的责任）与STEM设计、开发和使用的典型目标（例如，效率）之间的紧张关系。本项目考察了STEM在人道主义环境中的实施，为在更广泛的STEM领域内改变伦理文化提供了新的理解、优先事项和方向。它将侧重于理解如何在STEM的设计、开发和实施中解决人道主义道德要求，以及如何将对这些过程的理解转化为成功实现更以道德为中心的STEM文化的框架。为此，红十字会全球备灾中心将与华盛顿大学合作，系统评估红十字会在符合人道主义道德要求的情况下设计和开发STEM的努力。这种以人为本的方法将整合从业者、STEM专家和援助受益者的观点，揭示实现更道德的STEM文化的实际挑战和解决方案。这项研究将为改进如何以更合乎道德的方式将STEM技术融入人道主义工作以及培养更合乎道德的STEM文化提供数据和信息。本项目考察了STEM信息和通信技术如何在人道主义工作环境中实施。其目标是加强对如何将人道主义伦理融入信息通信技术的设计、开发和实施的理解，以及如何利用红十字会案例研究的经验教训制定新的框架，以培养更加以道德为中心的STEM文化。这将通过对案例研究的分析来完成，在这些案例研究中，人道主义信息通信技术项目已被用于支持红十字会的人道主义工作，通过文献综述、二手数据分析以及与设计、开发和实施过程中的相关利益相关者的访谈相结合。第一阶段包括收集二手数据、确定案例研究和开发研究工具。阶段2包括分析案例研究。第三阶段包括在红十字全球备灾中心研讨会上组建一个从业者-学术联盟，分享研究成果，促进对话，为人道主义信息和通信技术的道德设计提出切实可行的建议。第4和第5阶段涉及准备以道德为中心的STEM解决方案，向人道主义和学术界提供课程以供应用和评估，并传播项目成果。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。

The humanitarian sector has been engaged in ethical STEM activities for many decades since success in humanitarian practice is based on the ability to deliver aid according to moral and ethical principles. Humanitarian STEM work can thus expose tensions between the ethical imperatives of humanitarian missions (e.g., accountability to those being assisted), and the typical goals of STEM design, development, and use (e.g., efficiency). This project examines the implementation of STEM within a humanitarian environment to offer new understandings, priorities, and directions for changing ethical cultures within the broader STEM arena. It will focus on understanding how humanitarian ethical imperatives are addressed in the design, development, and implementation of STEM, and how understanding of these processes can be translated into frameworks for successfully achieving more ethically-centered STEM cultures. To do so, the Red Cross Global Disaster Preparedness Center will partner with University of Washington to systematically evaluate the Red Cross's efforts to design and develop STEM in alignment with humanitarian ethical imperatives. This human-centered approach will integrate perspectives from practitioners, STEM experts, and aid beneficiaries to reveal practical challenges and solutions for achieving more ethical STEM cultures. This research will provide data and information for improving how STEM technologies can be integrated into humanitarian work in a more ethical manner, and for cultivating more ethical STEM cultures.This project examines how STEM information and communications technologies have been implemented in humanitarian working environments. The goal is to enhance understanding of how humanitarian ethics can be built into the design, development, and implementation of ICTs, and how lessons learned from case studies involving the Red Cross can be used to develop new frameworks for cultivating more ethically-centered STEM cultures. This will be accomplished through analyses of case studies where humanitarian ICT projects have been used to support Red Cross humanitarian work through a combination of literature reviews, secondary data analysis, and interviews with relevant stakeholders across the design, development, and implementation process. Phase 1 involves collecting secondary data, identifying case studies, and developing research instruments. Phase 2 involves analyzing the case studies. Phase 3 involves assembling a practitioner-academic consortium, sharing findings, and facilitating dialogue at Red Cross Global Disaster Preparedness Center workshops to create practical recommendations for ethical design of Humanitarian information and communications technologies. Phases 4 and 5 involve preparing ethically-centered STEM solutions, taking lessons to the humanitarian and academic communities for application and assessment, and disseminating project findings.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.