Digital Twin-based Framework for Development of Schools as Smart & Connected Community Resilience Hubs

The NIST-sponsored Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC), Georgia Tech, and the University of Oregon, working closely with stakeholders in the City of Portland, OR, are piloting schools as Community Resilience Hubs (CRHs) in the Benson School District community to advance the socio-technical infrastructure of community-led CRHs. By establishing a digital twin-based Community Resilience Network (CRN) that is based on updated city management and community-led strategies towards expanding resource resilience capacity, distributed disaster response (across vulnerable communities and CRHs), and data-driven decision-making on disaster response, we aim to transform how emergency responders and communities coordinate resource distribution and services response before, during, or after a natural hazard event.