TY - JOUR
T1 - From Do-It-Yourself (DIY) to Do-It-Together (DIT)
T2 - Reflections on designing a citizen-driven air quality monitoring framework in Taiwan
AU - Mahajan, Sachit
AU - Luo, Cyuan Heng
AU - Wu, Dong Yi
AU - Chen, Ling Jyh
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Edimax Inc. , the g0v.tw community , and the LASS community for their support and technical advices. This research was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan and Academia Sinica under Grants: MOST 108-2218-E-001-002 , MOST 105-2221-E-001-016-MY3 , and AS-SS-109-02 .
Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Edimax Inc., the g0v.tw community, and the LASS community for their support and technical advices. This research was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan and Academia Sinica under Grants: MOST 108-2218-E-001-002, MOST 105-2221-E-001-016-MY3, and AS-SS-109-02.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - Air pollution is a serious problem and has caused public health concerns all over the world. Despite the evidence, the preparedness and response of citizens has been limited. This underlines the importance of having sustainable air quality monitoring solutions that foster inclusion and multi-stakeholder partnerships for social-scientific interventions. This study illustrates how AirBox project has emerged in Taiwan, where makers and citizens use the sensors to sense air quality and provide the public with actionable data about their environments. The AirBox project includes elements of technology-innovation and citizen science: (1) Participatory Sensing – Static and mobile air quality sensing, (2) Open Data – Open hardware, software and access to data, (3) Co-creation Citizen Science – Citizen-led campaigns and forums, and (4) Outreach – Knowledge sharing, trust building and multi-stakeholder collaboration. The project uses a wide range of sensors to provide extendable solutions and data at fine spatio-temporal resolution. The results are highlighted using five cases studies that show how integrating social dimensions in an air quality monitoring framework can lead to public awareness, data-driven applications and environmentally sustainable cities. The multi-faceted approach highlights the effects of a bottom-up citizen science approach that considers local culture, practices and problems at grassroots.
AB - Air pollution is a serious problem and has caused public health concerns all over the world. Despite the evidence, the preparedness and response of citizens has been limited. This underlines the importance of having sustainable air quality monitoring solutions that foster inclusion and multi-stakeholder partnerships for social-scientific interventions. This study illustrates how AirBox project has emerged in Taiwan, where makers and citizens use the sensors to sense air quality and provide the public with actionable data about their environments. The AirBox project includes elements of technology-innovation and citizen science: (1) Participatory Sensing – Static and mobile air quality sensing, (2) Open Data – Open hardware, software and access to data, (3) Co-creation Citizen Science – Citizen-led campaigns and forums, and (4) Outreach – Knowledge sharing, trust building and multi-stakeholder collaboration. The project uses a wide range of sensors to provide extendable solutions and data at fine spatio-temporal resolution. The results are highlighted using five cases studies that show how integrating social dimensions in an air quality monitoring framework can lead to public awareness, data-driven applications and environmentally sustainable cities. The multi-faceted approach highlights the effects of a bottom-up citizen science approach that considers local culture, practices and problems at grassroots.
KW - Air pollution monitoring
KW - Citizen science
KW - Low-cost sensors
KW - Particulate matter exposure
KW - Resilient cities
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102628
DO - 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102628
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097873262
SN - 2210-6707
VL - 66
JO - Sustainable Cities and Society
JF - Sustainable Cities and Society
M1 - 102628
ER -