Sustainable Innovation through Information Technology and Multiple Perspectives

信息技术正在迅速改变经济运行方式和资源管理方式。在一个联系日益紧密的世界里，培训一支具有不同视角的熟练劳动力队伍，能够最大限度地利用这些技术工具。在这种数字化转型的同时，地球在气候变化和自然系统可持续发展方面也面临着前所未有的挑战，新斯科舍省也是如此。获取和培训人工智能、遥感和环境遥感等技术对于培养未来一代创新者来解决这些资源管理挑战非常重要。发展技术技能对受人才短缺制约的行业也有直接的经济影响。我们的社会拥有多种形式的知识，这些知识超越了技术。米克马克长老阿尔伯特·马歇尔将Etuaptmumk，或称双眼看见，描述为将本土知识和西方科学结合起来造福所有人的智慧。新斯科舍社区学院(NSCC)利用这一双目观察方法作为指导框架，与商业和社区合作伙伴合作，旨在通过在人类、土地和水部门以及自然系统之间建立研究卓越的联系来促进经济机会。具体地说，拟议的研究计划将调查信息技术如何与从科学和土著角度出发的自然系统知识相结合，为经济机会和长期管理资源创造决策支持。除了直接关注行业和社区的具体挑战外，该研究计划还将为来自该地区社区的学生和职业早期领导者提供IT和技术培训。NSCC寻求利用这一计划建立伙伴关系，通过对合作伙伴产生有意义影响的应用研究来加强公平、多样性和包容性。应用信息技术改善可持续经济活动有助于负责任的企业发展其产品和服务，同时建设当地知识和能力。

Information Technology is rapidly transforming how economies perform and how resources are managed. In an increasingly connected world, training a skilled workforce with a diversity of perspectives enables the best use of these technology tools. At the same time as this digital transformation, the planet is also facing unprecedented challenges in climate change and natural system sustainability, this is equally true in Nova Scotia.Access and training for technologies such as artificial intelligence, remote imaging, and environmental sensing are important to build future generations of innovators to solve these resource management challenges. Developing technology skills also has immediate economic impacts for industries constrained by a shortage of talented people.Our communities hold many forms of knowledge that reach beyond technology. Mi'kmaq Elder Albert Marshall described Etuaptmumk, or Two-Eyed Seeing, as the wisdom of combining indigenous knowledge and western science to benefit all. Using this Two-Eyed Seeing approach as a guiding framework, the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), with business and community partners, aims to advance economic opportunity by building connections for research excellence across human, land and water sectors and natural systems. Specifically, the proposed research program will investigate how information technology, when combined with natural systems knowledge from scientific and Indigenous perspectives, can create decision-supports for economic opportunity and long-term stewardship of resources.In addition to directly focussing on specific challenges for industry and community, the research program will enable IT and Technology training for students and early-career leaders from communities across the region. NSCC seeks to utilize this program toward partnerships that strengthen equity, diversity, and inclusion through applied research that will have meaningful impacts for partners. The application of Information Technology to improve sustainable economic activities helps responsible businesses growth their products and services, while building local knowledge and capacity.