For the 2022 Healthy Public Challenge, we are calling all entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals, academics, technologists, designers, planners, university students, and the public at large to propose civic solutions that have the potential to create a healthy public.
Challenge:
HOW MIGHT WE LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY COHESION ACROSS DIVISIONS, CIVIC AGENCY, AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC ASSETS?
Problem:
At a time when ideological divisions deepen disengagement, classism and racism isolate communities, and disinvestment in safety nets destabilizes families, the health of our public is deeply threatened. These civic roots have a tremendous impact on our communities’ physical and mental health and well-being.
To create a healthy public, we believe that technology can be used to ensure the public’s vitality against the chronic maladies of isolation, disempowerment, and instability.
Civic Hall Labs launches the Healthy Public Challenge as a call for solutions that build a healthy society in these three target categories:
- CIVIC COHESION – increase communal interactions, community discourse, and engagement within and across groups;
- CIVIC AGENCY – support underrepresented groups to participate in governing our public at the local, state, and/or national levels, improve decision-making through data equity, open-sourced tools, or access to information;
- PUBLIC ASSETS – protect and increase access to public goods and social safety nets.