Presentation by Tim Cassiers at the OpenDataDay event 'Towards Clean Air with Open Data'. The event took place at BeCentral in Brussels on Saturday 3 March 2018.

1. From citizen science towards co-
constructed air policies in Brussels?
AIRCASTING BRUSSELS
Tim Cassiers – BRAL citizen action Brussels
Open data day – Towards clean air with open data
3 march 2018

2. scientific
crowdsourcing
2016
2013
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3. Subjective/experiential
data : various analytical
approaches
fine geolocalisation of a specific
pollutant
- allows model-checking
- accurate and communicative

4. “il nous faut …
- un système plus participatif,
que tout le monde puisse participer facilement,
sans liste d'attente, sans sélection.
Pour que les données ses multiplient exponentiellement.
La quantité de données fera la différence.
- que le matériel soit moins onéreux
- facile à construire sois-même
- des points fixes et mobiles
- que les données soient collectées sans fil automatiquement sur un serveur
- que ce serveur puisse recevoir les données, les stocker et les restituer via une API
publique.
- un simple site web: cartes, graphes dynamiques “ (deelnemer ExpAIR)

5. méthodes
Smarterlabs - JPI urban Europe - Innoviris
‘AIRCASTING Brussels’
Citizen Science

6. political measures
Why citizen science?
City
community
individual
collective knowledge production → collective
awareness
RESEARCH
ACTION
City
community
individual

8. opensource device, server & API
development funded by NGO’s & funds
designed for several meterings (dB, PM 2.5)
open data
direct feedback

9. Measuring your individual experience

10. Building collective knowledge

12. citizen science
co-produces knowledge
Feeds democratic action
A C
Situated experience citizen-science = to know+ to let know
A
A

13. Towards a co-construction of AIR policy in Brussels ?
A
P
C

14. Any
(research)
Questions?
tim@bral.brussels
lievin@bral.brussels