Catherine Magill

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@JennyElliottEdi @talklandscape @EdiLivingLab @WeeBletherer @ewanhklein Congratulations Jenny!

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@JennyElliottEdi @talklandscape @EdiLivingLab Wow great work @JennyElliottEdi! I mean, I already knew how great it was, but this is very exciting 🙂.

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

#smartplaces Thanks @WeeBletherer for hosting, @UoE_EFI for supporting and everyone who participated! See you tomorrow at the panel discussion bringing together all seven authors: https://t.co/6x6x7wkWiA

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@WeeBletherer @ed_synnott Maybe that's a key point, along with @ed_synnott. Find people with power + time to lead it!

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@WeeBletherer #SmartPlaces Q6: Someone has to make a good case. Someone has to have a strong motive to drive the process. And someone with data has to agree to share their data for reuse. I think it revolves around making a really strong case and having the right person driving it.

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@gemmacassells @WeeBletherer Yup to your last sentence. Maybe we find different things that people care about, but they all (hopefully) point to creating a more healthy, equitable and sustainable future.

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@WeeBletherer For example, if you knew your local shop was at risk of closing, would you make more effort to shop there? If you knew traffic was increasing on the roads around your house, would you make more effort to campaign for lower speed limits? We're often unaware of local-level change.

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@WeeBletherer #SmartPlaces Q5: It could bring to light issues that people could get involved in. For example understanding how neighbourhoods might be changing (slowly but invisibly) and taking action to make sure people co-create the future instead of just letting it happen.

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@WeeBletherer #SmartPlaces Q4: Also just thinking about places that provide data and digital skills training as hubs to support #localdata initiatives. Or as hubs that could use their resources of people who want to learn to build spokes out to their local communities.

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@WeeBletherer Perhaps you have a small team of volunteers who help to create the infrastructure. They engage with groups who care about a particular issue, providing resources, tools and training. Eventually the infrastructure is built into more long-lasting community structures like libraries

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@WeeBletherer #SmartPlaces Q4: Find something people are really interested in and care about - noise, air quality, speed limits, traffic, bats, water quality, etc. Build interest and participation. Then develop the structure to support and expand it.

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@ejanemclaughlin @WeeBletherer How did people find out about them? Through what networks or information channels?

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@WeeBletherer It's hard to say really. Seems people operated through existing networks, and it was hard to break into local networks if you didn't know someone or were already part of something. It's the 'invisible' data-sharing infrastructure 🙂.

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@WeeBletherer #SmartPlaces Q3: Facebook groups for specific areas seemed to work better. Also a local neighbourhood association was organising people with paper information and response sheets delivered directly to homes.

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@WeeBletherer #SmartPlaces Q3: I wanted to help out in my local community, but I don't know that many people, and I could only find volunteer opps through city-wide services. They had too many people offering help and too few needs.

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@gemmacassells @WeeBletherer What about all kinds of local business information providers? All the restaurant reviewing apps, for example? Even TripAdvisor provides local data. Not what I would have originally thought of, but @jamesks's comment about Strava made me think differently. #smartplaces

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@jamesks @WeeBletherer #smartplaces Q2: I hadn't thought of Strava this way, but it's so true. Any exercise app that recommends local routes based on where other people have run...Suunto app does this too. And there's mapmyrun and all kinds of others.

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@WeeBletherer #SmartPlaces Q2: The Neighbourhood Data for Social Change project @USCPriceCSI https://t.co/l13mHkvO5y

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

@WeeBletherer #smartplaces Q1: I'm Cat @UoE_EFI. To me #localdata means data that tells a story about a place. It could be government data collected in a way that is fairly removed from a place or local stories and images collected by small groups of people in a personal and engaged way.

[Catherine Magill @mountainmata]

#smartplaces Thanks @calvium for a great discussion today. Don't miss next week's Tweet-up on Thursday with @WeeBletherer about community data and the panel on Friday. All info here: https://t.co/rX5ADArD35