Q&A for ‘Citizen science for climate action’ TICTeC 2024 session
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Question and answer session for the following TICTeC 2024 presentations:
– Empowering community action through open mapping in disaster response and climate action – Petya Kangalova (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, UK)
– From data to action: FloodLight’s impact on disaster response in Pakistan – Ibraheem Saleem (Code for Pakistan, Pakistan)
– Civic tech and journalism: impact through collaboration – Christoph Raetzsch (Aarhus University, Denmark)
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Civic tech and journalism: impact through collaboration
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Impact beyond a project’s runtime depends on embedding stakeholder interests from the start, to ensure uptake after a project is finished. Through European and Japanese examples of citizen-sensed data and journalistic storytelling as well as audience engagement, this TICTeC 2024 presentation by Christoph Raetzsch (Aarhus University) underlines the need for collaborations between civic tech activists and journalists.
Routing algorithms, 20-minute neighbourhoods and hills in Scottish towns
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The Scottish government committed to support 20 minute neighbourhoods — but not all algorithms are equal, even the simplest ones. Scotland’s particularly hilly towns present a challenge. How does the 20 minute neighbourhood profile change, in different Scottish towns, when the routing algorithm takes up/down hill walking into consideration?
In her TICTeC 2024 presentation, Gala presents analysis on the accessibility (or lack thereof) to transportation and services in a number of Scottish towns, taking into consideration slower paces when walking uphill, downhill, and both uphill and downhill.
Understanding the small hurdles that block community engagement, with behavioural design
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Across South Africa, municipalities recognise that community engagement in local policy-making is crucial for effective governance, but they nonetheless struggle with low and unrepresentative participation.
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Engaging for the future: what do the public want from engagement, and how can digital deliver?
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What are the barriers preventing people from engaging in planning? How do people want to participate? What does good and effective engagement look like?
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#PlanTech and the geospatial ecosystem
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Citizen Space Geospatial incorporates interactive mapping and geospatial data throughout the digital engagement process — and it will have broad-reaching implications for the field of public participation.
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Visualising the future: how 3D imaging helps residents understand proposed changes
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One of the key barriers to housing development is public understanding of development proposals and the true impacts these might have. Improving understanding of development proposals is as important as improving the user experience and opportunity to participate in the planning process.
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Developing an urban barometer
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The urban barometer, uses digital technologies to engage with citizens and provide evidence on subjective aspects of wellbeing to guide policy makers
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The impact of data-enabled innovation in local public services in the UK
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How the Open Data Institute encouraged take up of their toolkit for data-informed policy development by local councils. A notes document.
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Automating environmental impact analyses to improve urban planning in New York City
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In New York, development proposals that increase density are required to assess the environmental impact of that increase. A slide deck.
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Enabling local people to participate in the design of civic and public life
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Looking at two projects which used civic tech to better engage with public: design services to be used by local people; and collecting opinions about autonomous vehicles. A notes document.
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Smart cities vs. civic tech: an analysis
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Where is the crossover between civic tech and smart cities – and to what extent can the former, with its years of hard-won experience, shape the latter?
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Citizen participation in Rome
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Roma Capitale expects not only to boost innovation policies at local level but also to improve the civic approach to the city.
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The Consul project for citizen participation
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Consul’s participation software is used by 90 governments in 18 different countries, giving citizens a voice in decisions about their own neighbourhoods. Slide deck.
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Council as a platform: supporting the civics
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How do you effect the fundamental rethink from service user to service provider? Slide deck.
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Discussions and decisions on Decidim: data analysis of Barcelona’s participatory democracy
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Using Decidim Barcelona’s Open Data API to analyse the political process of participatory democracy in the city.
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Creating new avenues
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Exploring the use of Bootlegger, a synchronous participatory media tool, to capture everyday stories, contributing to the production of a neighbourhood plan.
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Participatory city planning with open data and Minecraft in Berlin
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In 2016, the Berlin City Senate released its official 3D city model as Open Data.
The Ideation Lab converted the model to work within Minecraft, a computer game especially popular with children and young adults.
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The Viewpoint project: engaging a disenfranchised community with street tech
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What can you do when residents are suffering from ‘consultation fatigue’, with a low sense of efficacy due to lack of change? A slide deck.
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Building a national toilet map for the public’s convenience
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Public toilets are essential for the wellbeing, dignity and mobility of many. Here’s how open data helps them. A slide deck.
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Digital platform and training boost participation in rural Kyrgyzstan
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Produced thanks to a TICTeC Labs grant, this case study documents how the World Bank worked with the government to empower local communities to make decisions, facilitated by a digital platform.
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Creating a live map of empty commercial spaces in London & findings from ‘Act Local: Empowering London’s neighbourhoods’ research
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Putting the capital’s unused commercial properties to use as ‘meanwhile spaces’. Slide deck.
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Unlocking civic tech impact: reflections on TICTeC Labs
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An online event featuring presentations from TICTeC Labs subgrantees on the work produced thanks to the programme, and how these have met the needs identified in the Civic Tech Surgeries and Action Labs.
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