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Principles and Practices
Final Project: 1st Ideas
25 January 2018 12:41:
My project is to build an open-source device that follows the same logic as Fab Labs’ Smart Citizen initiative, but, instead of capturing hard data about the environment, crowdsources soft data from the citizens and gathers highly localised feedback on any topic.
Smart Citizen Sensors are made to capture and distribute environmental data about temperature, humidity, light, sound, levels of carbon monoxide and Nitrogen Dioxide, among others. But after that data is gathered, I believe there is little that the community itself can do with it.
I suppose mostly researchers would use the data for studies that would, ultimately, sustain the development of products or solutions, tailor made for that community in the future, which is already great. But I would like to build up on that concept and do something that would improve interaction between the, let’s say, subject and researcher too.
The plan is to fabricate an open-source and low cost terminal that allows citizens to crowdsource social sentiment and gather feedback/soft data about any topic. Data gathered would be published in an open platform so that authorities, media and citizens could monitor constantly and use it for improving public services.
Governments or private companies could also use the terminals to ask any question and receive highly localised feedback.
How does it work?
