Tech-Enabled Community Resilience
Building community resilience actively repairs the social fabric that connects people to each other and alters collective health and well-being trajectories for the better. Technology can strengthen the bonds between a network of people, places, and things – it serves as the visible connection holding a community together. Tech-Enabled Community Resilience is a model for harnessing the power of networks in a community ecosystem to influence and change social and health outcomes. This model highlights how community co-design principles – such as cooperative governance, participatory budgeting, community sense-making - serve as core equity drivers for technology-enabled community data initiatives.
Blending shared value and data science with the right technology tools and data infrastructure gives communities a platform to pilot rapid innovations, simulate conditions and forecasted outcomes, and build strategy sets to tackle entrenched social and public health problems.
