CRC

Community Resilience Center

• Coordinate open citizen labs and centers to support actionable leadership.
• Build relationships between civilians, private organizations and public government.
• Fortify civilization for extreme events and heal chronic problems.
• Anticipate most likely and extreme (worst case) stresses to society.
• Detect emerging events and provide insight.
• Respond by informing key individuals with critical knowledge.

Core Tools:

• Real-time data fusion and visualization tools for situational awareness.
• Group interaction facilitated by technology and physical space.

Science and Technology applied:

• R&D to build custom tools that provide complete solutions for real people.
• Earthquake sensors (smartphone accelerometer) to auto open firehouse doors (1-2min).
• Weather data from regional soft-edge mesh and online (when available).
• Economic solutions for housing, green energy, agriculture, communication and medicine.
• Scraping web news and social media to build real-time visualizations of live events.
• Cartography for remote regions and emergency management.
• Geolocation (IoT, mobile, drone, smart-city) to sense, detect, inform and coordinate.
• Text Mining, Text<->Voice, natural language processing, augmented human intelligence.
• Open Data and Science for sharing intelligence.
• Data Redundancy & Security (SSL, SSH, Blockchaing...) with domain specific user rights.
• Resilient Communications: adhoc P2P, mesh with Soft-Edge, radio, sat, fiber.

Conventional Wisdom

• People gather in person and communicate remotely (telecom, internet, radio...).
• Megaphones on vehicles (auto, drone, etc.) work!
• Evacuation plans on paper.
• Critical infrastructure map on hand with contacts.
• Solutions for when comms are overwhelmed and/or fail (cell, radio, sat, mesh-net..).

Key Considerations:

• Social Cohesion
• Critical Infrastructure
• Pillars (Jobs, Health, Food, Shelter, Justice, Communication, Education).

Chronic Pressures:

• Housing
• Employment
• Immigration

Acute Events:

• Earthquake
• Fire
• Flood
• Terrorism
• Accidents