Empowering Communities: The CKICAS Framework for Adaptive, Low-Latency Decision-Making in Sustainable Development

This paper presents CKICAS (Community Kinetic Intelligent Complex Adaptive System), a framework designed to help communities make decisions faster while maintaining quality by reducing the time between identifying a problem and responding to it. The framework was tested during COVID-19 across five different crisis situations and showed it could compress decision cycles from months down to hours. The paper proposes a technical architecture that could combine low-tech and AI-enhanced approaches to help communities address sustainable development challenges more inclusively.