ResilienceIQ™  

Evidence-based technology solutions for building equitable community resilience

 

 

 

For the 100 & Change Competition, we propose to develop an intelligent solution that leverages data, science, and technology to empower local communities to assess risk, analyze potential solutions, and inform holistic, equitable outcomes to build sustainable resilience to climate change.

Building Community Resilience

To arm local communities with solutions never before available to them, our team of world-class technologists will integrate existing, sophisticated data and technology to develop a new platform that empowers local communities to develop and evaluate evidence-based resilience solutions to secure a more sustainable, resilient, equitable future for all.  

Using agent-based modeling and scenario planning technologies, combined with digital twin technology and AI, we can model and forecast natural disaster risk for any community and uncover optimal mitigation solutions. 

Layering digital twin technology with agent-based modeling and StateBook’s powerful data analytics enables us to analyze risk, identify optimal mitigation and adaptation solutions, and run scenarios to determine each solution’s cost-benefit and social, economic, and environmental impact BEFORE investments are made – then track and benchmark progress. 

The Time is Now!

With climate disasters increasing in both frequency and severity, we are out of time. Communities globally must take this challenge on locally.

To maximize impact, communities must be as informed as possible, leveraging all possible information across social, economic, and environmental factors to create sustainable resilience solutions. 

ResilienceIQ™ is the solution. 

Analytics & Insights

Layering in StateBook’s comprehensive data, we can gain a deep understanding of the impacts that residents, businesses, and infrastructure may experience. We can examine the exacerbating effects of poverty, racial disparities, and lack of affordable housing on a community’s ability to build resilience and better understand the broader implications on the community’s healthcare systems, housing, energy, and more.

As an example, below, we look at the FEMA National Risk Index to evaluate hazards at the Census tract level, then analyze where pockets of poverty may exist and where hospitals sit, where people spend more than 50% of their annual household income on rent, or where homes may be in need of renovation because they are too old to meet current building codes. 

Equity & Inclusivity

Leveraging data, science, and technology, we empower leaders to deliver equitable outcomes that improve community well-being and foster long-term, sustainable, inclusive growth. And, our solution transparently tracks, benchmarks, and consistently reports actual impact delivered over time.

For example, here we are tracking the Gini Index of Income Inequality to see how it compares to state and national data over time. 

Empowering Front-Line Communities for Equitable Growth

Our publicly-available ResilienceIQ™ solution will integrate existing, powerful data, science, and technology into a single platform:

  • Using agent-based modeling to assess risk/pinpoint optimal interventions.
  • Providing scenario planning and cost-benefit analysis, enabling stakeholders to explore and evaluate potential responses to specific threats/hazards.
  • Offering customizable modeling/simulation tools that accommodate each geographic region’s unique challenges, social and economic fabric, and natural disaster risks.
  • Transparently tracks, benchmarks, and consistently reports actual impact delivered over time.

Community Engagement

Building climate resilience is a very personal journey for a community. Communities do not appreciate “experts” with “technology” coming in to tell them what they should do. Our ResilienceIQ™ solution would empower communities to embark on their own journey toward climate resilience, armed with data and technology resources to help ensure their risk assessments, adaptation and mitigation strategies, project investments and ongoing reporting are evidence-based.

To complement our technology, our economic development partners will collaborate with their communities, building 

capacity and training them on how to use the technology to create evidence-based strategies, implement projects, and track and benchmark progress to ensure equitable, inclusive growth that is community-led and sustainable. 

Resilience Is an Investment, Not a Cost!

Only 4% of climate finance is dedicated to adaptation, according to the U.N. Disaster Risk Reduction Agency.

The gap between what is needed for adaptation of communities around the world is $131 billion per year and is expected to increase to $240 billion per year by 2030. 

Integrating robust cost-benefit analysis, including net present value internal rate of return, into our platform’s economic impact 

models enables community stakeholders to assess what the future holds with or without specific investments in adaptation and mitigation.

Our Team

Our team is a new collaboration coalescing profound expertise in resilience, technology, and on-the-ground community engagement.

  • The International Sustainable Resilience Center is a globally recognized expert in resilience and sustainability with an agent-based modeling and scenario-planning technology for mitigating climate risk.
  • StateBook International is a location intelligence company with a patented process for aggregating, normalizing, and visualizing otherwise complex, disparate data sets and technologies.
  • The Greater New Orleans Development Foundation, Center for Houston’s Future, and the South Delta Planning & Development District are regional economic development nonprofits serving some of the most at-risk and disadvantaged regions struggling to adapt and recover from compounding economic and environmental threats. We are excited to embrace ResilienceIQ™ for sustainable resilience and catalyzing action and impact for robust, accessible, equitable social, economic, and environmental outcomes that can scale.
  • Our team intends to also add a university partner to serve as a third-party evaluator to measure and evaluate project performance, including our community outreach process and impact delivered through resilience projects.

    ResilienceIQ™

    Information Advantage for Community Resilience