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SenseCityVity: Mobile Crowdsourcing, Urban Awareness, and Collective Action in Mexico

2017; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 16; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mprv.2017.32

1558-2590

Salvador Ruíz-Correa, Darshan Santani, Beatriz Ramirez-Salazar, Itzia Ruiz-Correa, Fatima Alba Rendon-Huerta, Carlo Olmos-Carrillo, Brisa Carmina Sandoval-Mexicano, Angel Humberto Arcos-Garcia, Rogelio Hasimoto-Beltrán, Daniel Gática-Pérez,

ICT in Developing Communities

This work describes SenseCityVity, an approach to engage and support youth in a city in Mexico as they investigate, document, and reflect upon urban problems through mobile crowdsourcing. SenseCityVity focused on the development of a mobile crowdsourcing platform; the deployment of the Urban Data Challenge, codesigned by the authors' research team and actors to collect geolocalized images, audio, and video; and the analysis, appropriation, and creative use of the collected data for community reflection and artistic creation. The approach integrates mobile technology and community practices involving a large population of young people for urban engagement. The collective action generated a new multimedia dataset that is rich in terms of content and is enabling a number of studies aimed at better understanding the urban landscape of cities in the Global South. This article is part of a special issue on smart cities.