How can cities and citizens measure and improve health?
Urbinsight is a global initiative connecting neighborhoods on-the-ground with web-based crowd-mapping tools designed to explore, measure and act upon holistic urban health data from a citizen’s perspective.
Urbinsight’s participatory mapping and planning processes provides engaged cities and citizens with the necessary tools and technology to affect the resiliency and sustainability of their cities and settlements in a positive way.
- The Ecocompass Educational Companion
The Ecocompass trains municipalities, schools and community groups on participatory research methods, real-time geodata collection and information networks.
The Platform weaves together municipal open datasets with bottom-up datasets revealing opportunities based on ecocity indicators at the levels of individual, household, neighborhood, and city.
We are changing the role of citizen from a passive actor who just consumes the information and just complains about the things he doesn’t like to somebody who takes over and owns his own environments.
Tarik Nesh Nash / Urbinsight Casablanca
The experiences and expertise exchanged added a lot for the students to gain exposure as well as to the Ecocity Builders team who are seeing what is happening in different parts of the world.
Dr. Sahar Attia / Urbinsight Cairo
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic