A Technology Toolkit for Community Resilience

Description:

How can communities prepare for extreme weather events while building long-term resilience? Rising temperatures, increased flood risk, and other extreme weather events threaten critical infrastructure systems; vulnerable communities see these impacts further magnified, as acute weather events interact with chronic challenges such as poverty and inequitable access to infrastructure/services. In response, a team of Austin community members, staff members from the City of Austin, Austin-based nonprofit Go Austin, Vamos Austin, and researchers from The University of Texas at Austin are building a technological tool kit to increase community resilience to acute and chronic stressors by pairing innovative solutions for data sharing and use with community organizing and network activation.