Raw Ingredients
- 4+ years Multi-city programme + pilot
- Use non-technical language
- Reward and give feedback
- Value all contributions equally
Scoping and community building
- Map target audiences
- Build partnerships
- Get to know one another
- Familiarise yourself with the cities vision for urban mobility, and ways in which citizens can get involved in decision making
- Utilise a diversity of communication channels to connect and spread awareness
Knowledge building
- Support citizens who feel less confident
- Provide training on scientific skills and literacy
- Deliver training on community organising
- Offer cultural education training to staff to better understand how to engage different audiences
Co-design
- Build community with citizens - give them time and space to voice concerns, opinions and motivations, and manage expectations
- Offer alternatives ways of being involved if citizens cannot have a sensor
- Develop appropriate knowledge sharing tools
- Find ways to keep motivation alive
Data collection
- Engage with counting citizens throughout the process to answer questions and sustain their motivation
- Ensure the technical team is responsive
- Pay a visit to citizens that are struggling
Data analysis
- Make data analysis available online via an interactive map, with auto-generated charts from incoming citizens data, as well as options to use raw data
- Host one or more data analysis workshops, targeting specific sensor networks, for facilitated data analysis and to share local data stories.
- Invite along city representatives
Advocacy
- Offer training workshops and videos to equip citizens with the necessary skills and knowledge
- Co-create citizen actions and data visualisation to raise public awareness, influence behaviours or advocate for policy change.
Reflection and legacy
- Plan in time to:
- Critique steps 1-4, to work with citizens to implement actions
- Ensure that findings are effectively disseminated
- Enhance replicability of the case study
- Develop outputs than can be used the community