Open Data and Citizen Science Reporting
Current Practices and Potential for Air Quality Monitoring
Efficiency Unit
Bastien Douglas
December 9, 2014
PRESENTATION AND PANEL
About me
Schedule
Theory
Practice
What we know
Government doesn’t exist in a bubble.
What we know
Government isn’t a black box
What we know
Government can be a platform for development
Talking about: Government and public data
Government | Analysis, program measurement, �policy development |
Public (Citizens / Academics) | Transparency / Reporting |
Data used by:
Data from:
Government
Public
Civic engagement |
Crowdsourcing |
Towards data openness
Data openness enables:
By:
Matching innovation with technology
Innovation
Search, publishing, sharing, dynamic websites (not static)
Open Data definition
Open
Findable. If it can be found, it can be accessed.
Government openness and transparency
Open Data
Share! It’s everybody’s, and nobody’s. Yours, mine. No limitations on use.
Technology: tools, databases, and standards (APIs)
Data
Machine readable. Data is for computers.
Keys for enablement of citizen reporting
DISCOVERABLE
STRUCTURED
UNCONDITIONAL
Case study: UK
London Air: www.londonair.org.uk
UK Government & Environmental Research Group at King's College London, supported by the University of Leeds
Includes:
Visualization on the website
OpenAir tool for analysis
Chrome plug in
More
Even more: CleanAir app on iOS & Android
iPhone
iPad
Crowdsourced: Air Quality Egg
“Community-led sensing network”
Link: www.airqualityegg.com
More Open Data Air Pollution
Fukushima disaster: crowdsourced
Safecast: Citizen mapping of Fukushima
Andrew Leyden “HK Air Pollution” app
Thank you