Global City Teams Challenge: Strategic Planning Workshop Working Group Series
Project Investigators
CAHMP Co-directors, Brenda Bannan (Principal Investigator) & Dave Lattanzi (Co-Principal Investigator) (2022) lead Global City Teams Challenge Strategic Planning Workshop Working Group Series, sponsored by National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). The CAHMP team submitted the proposal in March, 2022 and was awarded $89,390 over one year.
In 2022, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded funding to George Mason University (GMU) to conduct a two-part workshop series to develop an integrated and supportive community-centric strategy to inform, strengthen and expand the Global Community Technology Consortium (formerly the Global City Teams Challenge) (GCTC) program, in an effort to facilitate and enhance smart and connected communities technology research, development and application.
In early August of 2022, the GCTC leadership convened in Arlington, Virginia, at Mason Square on GMU’s Arlington campus as the first workshop meeting in a two-part series. This first workshop, sponsored by the Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnerships (CAHMP) at GMU and organized by Dr. Brenda Bannan, was designed to establish a strategic research vision for the GCTC. The workshop provided the leadership of the twelve SuperClusters, also known as Technology Sectors, an opportunity to better understand how the GCTC interacts with internal and external partners to achieve technology deployment and implementation for the purpose of informing the strategic vision. This workshop was followed by a mid-September workshop sponsored by the City of Coral Gables, Florida, and held in their Public Safety Headquarters Smart Building. Augmenting the findings of the first workshop, the second workshop held was designed to delineate the specific priorities and activities of the strategic plan. The leadership of this organization, including Dr. Bannan, attended the SmartCity Expo USA in Miami, Florida as part of the event.
Synthesized results from this workshop series: 1) inform and guide the strategic directions of the NIST GCTC organization to benefit communities and the public related to advanced cyber-physical technologies; and 2) yield insights into the complex and interdependent challenges of disseminating and implementing technology in the smart and connected communities vision.