Protecting Minority Ethnic Communities Online (PRIME)

PRIME项目将通过关注少数民族社区的数字化服务经验，特别是在住房、健康和能源领域，扩大对在线危害的理解，以及如何通过新系统、工具和流程减轻在线危害。我们将利用社会政策，网络安全和隐私，数据挖掘和机器学习的知识，方法和技能;人机交互，应用语言学和教育技术。与REPHRAIN密切合作，我们将与来自ME社区，社区组织，公共机构和能源供应商的广泛个人进行接触，以确定和分类所经历的危害的性质，并评估现有系统和流程是否足以应对这些危害。我们将通过公民领导的种族平等生活实验室（CREL）将这些知识转化为新颖，有效和可扩展的社会和技术危害缓解解决方案的共同设计和共同生产。这些成果将包括住房、健康和能源领域的政策指导，以及更普遍地改善在线服务的跨领域建议;减轻伤害的教育资源，使个人和组织能够更有效地保护自己;以及更好的隐私增强技术（PET），以对抗数字化服务中的歧视性过程。我们还将制作基准数据集，工具和模型，使组织能够解决服务提供中的种族不平等问题，并在更大的透明度和公平的服务结果方面向公众展示更多的问责制。

The PRIME project will broaden understanding of online harm and how it can be mitigated through new systems, tools and processes by focusing on Minority Ethnic (ME) communities' experiences of digitalised services, particularly in the areas of housing, health and energy. We will draw on knowledge, methods and skills from social policy, cyber security and privacy, data mining and machine learning; human computer interaction, applied linguistics and educational technology. Working closely with REPHRAIN, we will engage with a wide range of individuals from ME communities, community organisations, public agencies and energy suppliers to identify and categorise the nature of the harms experienced, and assess the adequacy of existing systems and processes to counter them. We will translate this knowledge into the co-design and co-production of novel, effective and scalable social and technological harm-mitigating solutions through a Citizen-led Race Equity Living Lab (CREL). The outputs will include policy guidance in the fields of housing, health and energy as well as cross-cutting recommendations for improving online services more generally; educational resources for harm mitigation to enable individuals and organisations to more effectively protect themselves; as well as better privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) that counter discriminatory processes in digitalised services. We will also produce benchmark datasets, tools and models to enable organisations to address ethnic inequalities in service provision and demonstrate more accountability to the public in terms of greater transparency and equitable service outcomes.