EAGER: Pathways to Sustainable Success in Smart and Connected Communities

国家科学基金会通过其公民创新挑战(Civic)和智能互联社区(S&CC)计划，支持各种有价值的技术和社会公民创新。虽然通过这些努力资助的许多项目在多个社区产生了重大和持久的影响，但其他项目未能将其转化为可持续和可扩展的项目。这将采用一个多阶段的过程来确定成功翻译的基础因素以及那些可能成为障碍的因素的组合。该项目还将探索能够推动更多项目取得可持续、可扩展和长期成功的具体步骤、干预措施和资源。这项研究的一个重要部分是将个别项目与可能是适当的想法、方法和资源联系起来，并记录过程和结果。US Ignite将与美国国家科学基金会的公民和S&CC项目团队合作，试验将他们的技术和政策成果部署到更大规模部署的途径。US Ignite将分析现有的由美国国家科学基金会资助的S、CC和公民研究项目，以确定是否适合在多个社区进行可持续和成功的部署。部署可以通过多种途径来完成，例如将技术分拆给初创公司、将技术和/或数据作为开源提供给其他人使用、保护知识产权以使其为承诺的行业合作伙伴或联盟保留价值，以及由地方政府采购。其中一些途径将利用已经提供这些服务的合作伙伴。这种渴望将有助于更广泛地了解智能社区中创新、包容和公平技术部署的演变及其社会和经济影响。积极影响公平、不同人群的包容性、社区参与和公民信任的能力将是这一努力成功的重要组成部分。该奖项反映了NSF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。

The National Science Foundation supports a wide variety of valuable technical and social civic innovation through its Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) and Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) programs. While many of the projects funded through these efforts have significant and long-lasting impact in multiple communities, others fail to make the translation into being sustainable and scalable. This EAGER will employ a multi-stage process to identify the combinations of factors which underlie successful translation as well as those factors which can be barriers. This EAGER will also explore specific steps, interventions, and resources which can propel more projects to sustainable, scalable, and long-term success. An important part of this research is connecting individual projects with what may be appropriate ideas, approaches, and resources, as well as documenting the process and outcomes.US Ignite will work with NSF's CIVIC and S&CC project teams to pilot pathways to deploy their technology and policy outcomes into larger-scale deployments. US Ignite will analyze existing NSF-funded research projects in S&CC and CIVIC to determine suitability for sustainable and successful deployment in multiple communities. Deployment may be accomplished through a number of pathways such as spinning out the technology to a startup, making the technology and/or data available as open source for others to use, protecting the intellectual property so that it retains value for a committed industry partner or alliance, and procurement by local government. Some of the pathways will leverage partners already providing these services. This EAGER will contribute to a wider body of knowledge on the evolution of innovative, inclusive, and equitable technology deployment in smart communities and their social and economic implications. Ability to positively impact equity, inclusiveness of diverse populations, community engagement, and civic trust will be important components of the success of this effort.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.