SCC-PG: Utilizing Sharing Economy to Foster Social Capital and Economic Growth in Baton Rouge

近十年来，人们处理服务和商品的方式发生了重大转变。这种转变是由一种新的点对点（P2P）商业交换形式的出现促成的，这种形式被称为共享经济（SE）。这种按需、便捷和可持续的资源消费形式吸引了全球的消费者和投资者，为低收入和边缘化社区的个人提供了前所未有的就业机会，创造了额外收入，增加了互惠，并获得了其他方式无法获得的资源。该项目将利用SE作为促进经济增长、促进生态可持续性的工具，并在路易斯安那州政治首都巴吞鲁日市的弱势社区中建立社会资本。根据美国人口普查局的数据，巴吞鲁日的贫富差距在全国排名第四，近25%的巴吞鲁日人口生活在贫困线以下。为了实现我们的目标，我们提出了一项综合研究和社区参与计划，该计划将使用定量和定性研究的方法，a)确定目标社区中可持续发展的成功因素，b)探索未充分利用的服务和资产的情况，c)确定适应的根本缺陷和社会技术障碍，以及d)调查这些问题的缓解策略。基于这些基础信息，项目将在SE的环境中为基本需求工程和软件设计问题提供新颖的系统解决方案。这些解决方案将使软件工程师能够设计经过优化的SE系统，以帮助资源受限社区中的个人克服社会障碍，并在经济阶梯上向上移动。该项目将进一步促进跨学科研究，为研究人员提供广泛学科（例如，社会、技术、经济和法律）的自动化框架，用于分析SE的人、市场和技术组成部分之间复杂且日益耦合的关系。该项目还将通过在来自当地社区的利益相关者、当地社会工作组织、当地少数民族服务机构（MSI）的研究人员、K-12和来自代表性不足群体的本科生之间建立伙伴关系，促进社区参与。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 recent decade has witnessed a major shift in the way people deal services and goods. This shift has been enabled by the emergence of a new form of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) business exchange, known as Sharing Economy (SE). This on-demand, convenient, and sustainable form of resource consumption has attracted consumers and investors around the globe, providing unprecedented opportunities for individuals in low-income and marginalized communities to find employment, generate extra income, increase reciprocity, and access resources that are unattainable otherwise.This project will utilize SE as a vehicle for fostering economic growth, promoting ecological sustainability, and building social capital among disadvantaged communities in the city of Baton Rouge, the political capital of the State of Louisiana. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the economic gap between rich and poor in Baton Rouge is the fourth-highest in the country, with close to 25% of Baton Rouge population living below the poverty line. To achieve our goals, we propose an integrative research and community engagement plan that will use methods of quantitative and qualitative research to, a) identify success factors of SE in our target communities, b) explore the landscape of underutilized services and assets, c) identify fundamental shortcomings and socio-technical barriers to adaptation, and d) investigate mitigation strategies for these problems. Based on this foundational information, the project will deliver novel systematic solutions to fundamental requirements engineering and software design problems in the context of SE. These solutions will enable software engineers to design SE systems that are optimized to help individuals in resource-constrained communities to overcome social barriers and move up the economic ladder. The project will further facilitate interdisciplinary research by providing researchers, across a broad range of disciplines (e.g., social, technical, economic, and legal), with automated frameworks for analyzing the complex and increasingly coupled relations between the human, market, and technology components of SE. The project will also foster community engagement by establishing partnerships between stakeholders from local communities, local organizations of social work, researchers from local minority-serving institutions (MSI), K-12, and undergraduate students from underrepresented groups.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.