crowdsourced planning nash_27mar2014.pptx
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Summary of social media techniques and applications that can be used to improve the public involvement process in urban and transport planning. Including reporting applications, serious games, collaboration tools, educational applications and supporting tools.TRANSCRIPT
Crowd-sourced Planning
Andrew Nash GreenCityStreets.com March 27, 2014
Using interactive city tools to improve public involvement
Outline
1. Public involvement and planning. 2. What are interac(ve city tools anyway? 3. A structure for understanding. 4. Examples. 5. Summary and QuesLons.
1. Public involvement and planning
Big Problems + Limited Resources
• Climate change • Socio-‐economic change • Demographic change • Urban growth • Financial crisis
Ci(es cannot solve today’s difficult problems without help from their residents.
How does public involvement help?
• Generates beSer ideas Detailed local knowledge & fresh perspec5ve
• Provides poliLcal support
Especially important for tough decisions
• Creates commiSed residents People willing to ac5vely help
CIVITAS ELAN Project: CiLzen Engagement in the field of mobility
CIVITAS Public Involvement – ThemaLc Group To be discussed following the webinar.
hSp://www.civitas.eu/content/public-‐involvement
2. What are interac(ve city tools anyway?
Your city?
Interac(ve city tools ApplicaLons and technologies that help people work together to increase city livability, economic well-‐being and sustainability.
Inform Inform + Consult Inform + Consult + Collaborate
hBp://in.kahootz.com/blog/bid/293979/Choosing-‐the-‐right-‐digital-‐stakeholder-‐engagement-‐channels
But, it’s more than words and talking.
3. InteracLve City Tool Structure Complex slide warning!
Open Data (by Government)
Sensor Data (by public)
EducaSonal Apps
Public Discussion Apps
AcSons AcSviSes Services
Plans
InformaSon Status Updates
BeBer MeeSng Apps
CollaboraSon
VisualizaSon Analysis
AccounSng
Develop New Apps
Input Analysis CollaboraSon Output
Public ReporSng Apps
Support Real
RelaSonship Apps
The public role:
A. Provide input B. Analyze data C. Collaborate in planning D. Support decision-‐making E. Take acLon
Input Analysis CollaboraLon Output
Support
These are the same acLviLes ciLzens have always performed … But today’s informaLon technology has vastly expanded the ability of ciLzens to get involved:
-‐ more people -‐ more detail
4. Examples
• Mainstream social media (TwiBer, Facebook)
• Service status & reporLng (agency websites) • Survey applicaLons (e.g., Survey Monkey)
• Customized reporLng applicaLons
• GPS reporLng applicaLons
A. CollecLng input
Chicago Transit Authority – TwiSer Feed
Zurich Public Transport Authority – Facebook Page
Customized reporLng applicaLons
SeeClickFix page for San Francisco hBp://seeclickfix.com
Traffic Check hBp://www.trafficcheck.at/
User friendly features needed for mobile phone reporLng: • automaLc geo locaLon, • logical informaLon flow, • check boxes for data entry.
A key part of customized reporLng apps are back-‐end analysis and tracking systems.
Verbeterdebuurt, Netherlands hBp://www.verbeterdebuurt.nl/
GPS based reporLng applicaLons
Meine Radspur, Vienna hBp://www.meineradspur.at/
Street Bump, Boston hBp://streetbump.org/
• City data – open data streams or scraped. • CiLzen collected data – cheap sensors.
Government no longer has a monopoly on data and informa(on.
B. Data Analysis
CiLzen developed applicaLons and visualizaLons from open data. Stumble Safely, Washington D.C.
Now … a word from our sponsors: Please open your city data This means providing easy access to • real data (not PDFs) • via applicaSon programming interfaces (APIs) • using standard formats (e.g. GTFS).
See: Open Knowledge FoundaSon for more informaSon about open data: hBp://okfn.org/
CiLzen collected data
It’s easier then ever for ciSzens to collect data • Inexpensive sensors • Scraping public data sites
Open your data so ciSzens do not need to scrape your sites … let them create applicaSons for you … this will save you money and increase creaSvity!
WayCount vehicle counter and soiware www.waycount.com
Smart CiLzen sensor and soiware hBp://www.smartciSzen.me/
Air Quality Egg
Air Quality Egg hBp://airqualityegg.com
C. CollaboraLon Par(cipate efficiently without a@ending mee(ngs.
San Francisco Mind Mixer website www.improveSF.com
Shareabouts – geo collaboraLon openplans.org/work/shareabouts/
GreenCityStreets.com … Facebook-‐based collaboraLon
Loomio – public infrastructure for collaboraLve decision making www.loomio.org -‐ please support their crowd funding effort!
• EducaLon – ciSes are complex! • Tools for beSer meeLngs and processes • Increase engagement
Help improve the collabora(on process.
D. Support
“Why is everyone’s valuable input so stupid?”
BusMeister … public transport learning hBp://greencitystreets.com
Participatory Chinatown
Boston
Using virtual reality to understand urban planning. hBp://www.parScipatorychinatown.org/
hBp://streetmix.net
Improve Public Transport wiki … crowd-‐sourced informaLon about public transport. hBp://greencitystreets.com
Community PlanIT -‐ game based plans hBp://communityplanit.org
Grr-‐Grr-‐Bike … smartphone game for educaLon + engagement. www.grr-‐grr-‐bike.com
Designing Chicago … crowd sourcing public transport applicaLon development. hBp://designingchicago.com
Plan in A Box – tools for planning hBp://planinabox.org
Simpl Challenges hBp://www.simpl.co/howitworks
E. AcLon
• InformaLon – e.g. transit informaSon • Real acLviLes – Clean-‐up days – P2P ridesharing – Sharing Culture – Casserole – shared meals and socializaLon
• Crowd-‐sourced civic works If you don’t do it someone else will … (not necessarily bad).
596acres – acLvity diary – acLon record & long term knowledge.
Ciclo Rotas Centro project Rio de Janerio, Brazil
5. Summary and QuesLons
1. We need more and beSer involvement to solve today’s serious problems.
2. Input is more than words and talk.
3. New technology = more involvement: … in all aspects of planning.
4. Please open your data.
5. If you don’t do it … someone else will.
Andrew Nash helps clients develop social media, serious games and crowd sourcing applicaSons designed to improve ciSes and transport systems. His current projects include Grr-‐Grr-‐Bike (www.grr-‐grr-‐bike.com), a smart phone game designed to encourage people to get involved in urban bicycle planning and advocacy, and www.GreenCityStreets.com, a project that uses a serious game and a wiki-‐based best pracSces website to educate people about public transport operaSons and a Facebook-‐based crowdsourcing plahorm. You can reach him at: [email protected]
Crowd-‐sourced Planning Using interactive city tools to improve public involvement
Andrew Nash [email protected] www.andynash.com +43 676 933-‐0483 Vienna, Austria
References • Nash, Andrew; A Proposed Structure for Understanding InteracSve
City Tools; May 2013, hBp://andynash.com/publicaSons/ • “InteracSve City Tool” from Play the City hBp://www.playthecity.nl/ • Code for America (CfA) hBp://codeforamerica.org/ • OpenPlans hBp://openplans.org • Open Knowledge FoundaSon hBp://okfn.org/ • GovLab Open Governance WIKI hBp://thegovlab.org/wiki/Main_Page ReporLng ApplicaLons • Seeclickfix hBp://seeclickfix.org • Fix My Transport hBp://www.fixmytransport.com • CiSzens Connect
hBp://www.cityososton.gov/doit/apps/ciSzensconnect.asp • Traffic Check hBp://www.trafficcheck.at/ • Verbeterdebuurt, Netherlands hBp://www.verbeterdebuurt.nl/
References -‐ 2 GPS Data ReporLng ApplicaLons
• CycleTracks, San Francisco – GPS data collecSon system for bicycling: hBp://www.sfcta.org/modeling-‐and-‐travel-‐forecasSng/
• Meine Radspur, Vienna hBp://www.meineradspur.at/
• StreetBump, Boston hBp://streetbump.org
• Waze roadway GPS data collecSon www.waze.com
• Moovit public transport GPS reporSng app: www.moovitapp.com
CiLzen Collected Data
• WayCount traffic counter: hBp://trafficcom.org
• Air Quality Egg: hBp://airqualityegg.com
• Cosm sensor data sharing plahorm hBps://cosm.com/
• Seeplan – project by Even Westvang from Bengler – hBp://bengler.no/seeplan
References -‐ 3 CollaboraLon ApplicaLons • MindMixer www.mindmixer.com • Shareabouts hBp://shareabouts.org • GreenCityStreets.com www.greencitystreets.com • Loomio – crowd sourced decision making www.loomio.org • Bogotá – My ideal city
hBp://www.miciudadideal.com/en/ciSzen_sourced CiLzen Collected Data • WayCount traffic counter: hBp://trafficcom.org • Air Quality Egg: hBp://airqualityegg.com • Cosm sensor data sharing plahorm hBps://cosm.com/
References -‐ 4 Support and EducaLon • Community Planit hBp://communityplanit.org • BusMeister Game hBp://www.greencitystreets.com • ParScipatory Chinatown hBp://www.parScipatorychinatown.org/ • Streetmix.net hBp://streetmix.net • Grr-‐Grr-‐Bike engagement game hBp://www.grr-‐grr-‐bike.com • Designing Chicago hBp://designingchicago.com/ • Plan in a Box hBp://planinabox.org/ • Simpl Challenge hBp://www.simpl.co/howitworks
Taking AcLon • Everyday Growing Cultures hBp://everydaygrowingcultures.org • 596 Acres – New York hBp://596acres.org/ • Ciclos Rotas Centro – Rio de Janeiro
hBp://events.gsapp.org/event/ciclo-‐rotas-‐centro-‐0 • Networks of Dispossession – Turkey hBp://mulksuzlesSrme.org/index_en.html