Presentation by Maarten Reyniers at the OpenDataDay event 'Towards Clean Air with Open Data'. The event took place at BeCentral in Brussels on Saturday 3 March 2018.
4. What is Leuvenair.be?
• Same objectives as InfluencAir:
• Create a community-driven initiative for air quality
measurements and actions
• Raise awareness about air quality
• Bridge the gap between science and a wider
audience
• Share common developments (e.g. map) via
Civic Labs Belgium
• History is a bit different
5. Timeline
June 2017
First informal contact with
city officials
December 2017
Attention from media:
VRT news, Interview
Radio1,
local press
30 January 2018
07 February 2018
big sensor workshops
07March2018
1st Civic Lab Leuven!
Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr
November 2017
Leuvenair.be website launched
6. Partners
• “Straten Vol Leuven”
(=citizen platform in Leuven working
mainly on mobility issues)
immediately enthousiastic about
initiative, and ordered the stuff for
assembling one hundred sensor kits!
• Stad Leuven
“Kom op voor je wijk”
(room for workshops & Civic Lab
Leuven for free)
€€
7. Straten Vol Leuven Workshopswith
scientific
introduction
by
Frans Fierens (IRCELINE)
available
on
Leuvenair.be
8. What’s next? (1/4)
Starting Civic Lab Leuven on 07/03/2018
Every two weeks on Wednesday evening
First objective: recruit more volunteers!
• statistics geeks
• webdevelopment
• hw development
• outreach (social media)
• …