Data Citizen Driven City project aims to engage citizens to gather data about what they most care about using open technologies. Local communities will use data to understand their environments and to visualize problematic areas. Data grounded solutions will be produced, tested and replicated to create more sustainable urban regions.

Since October 2011, we’ve focused on air quality issues in Madrid running conferences, presentations and hands-on workshops at Medialab-Prado. We’ve engaged other citizen groups in London, Amsterdam and New York to develop a custom low cost air quality sensor to map pollutants at controversial areas.

Our goals are to promote knowledge transfer regardless of previous expertise and to open a forum where all stakeholders can raise their concerns and solutions. Furthermore, we’re creating a prototype library of devices, to break the digital breach and enable anyone to contribute with their own data, while gaining insight into urban issues.

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