Mapping Our Social Fabric: The Tech-Enabled Community Resilience Summit
September 15, 2023
The Tech-Enabled Community Resilience
Teri Garstka, Ph.D. & Meaghan Kennedy, MPH conveners
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 (TEC 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 co-design principles serve as core equity drivers for technology-enabled community data initiatives. Blending data science with the right technology tools gives communities a platform to pilot rapid innovations, simulate conditions and forecast outcomes, and build strategies to tackle entrenched problems.
Resources:
Using Social Network Analysis to Link Community Health and Network Strength