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Enabling Participatory Flood Monitoring Through Cloud Services

Pajarito Grajales, D. , Castro Degrossi, L., Barros, D. D. R., Khan, M. R., Lima E. Silva, F., Cunha, M. A., Trajber, R. and Porto de Albuquerque, J. (2022) Enabling Participatory Flood Monitoring Through Cloud Services. In: 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2022), Tarbes, France, 22-25 May 2022, pp. 213-223. ISBN 9788284270999

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Abstract

Flooding events are more impactful due to climate change, while traditional top-down approaches to flood management give way to new initiatives that consider citizens and communities as active strategic actors. Researchers and practitioners have started to place communities in the centre of creation processes or invite them to co-design digital platforms. However, many citizen science projects re-use well-known technological components without reflecting about how the technology is able to effectively support citizen participation in data generation, including the provision of flexible data storage and exchange. This paper describes a novel digital platform design which adopts cloud services to integrate official and citizen-generated data about urban flooding. It summarises the results of a participatory design process of a digital platform to collect, store and exchange flood-related data, which includes components such as data lakes, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and web and mobile interfaces. This work in progress paper presents insights and lessons learned from using cloud services to enable citizen participation and engage communities with flood monitoring.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Keywords:	Flood monitoring, communities, citizen-generated data, cloud services, citizen participation.
Status:	Published
Refereed:	Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:	Porto de Albuquerque, Professor Joao and Pajarito Grajales, Mr Diego
Authors:	Pajarito Grajales, D., Castro Degrossi, L., Barros, D. D. R., Khan, M. R., Lima E. Silva, F., Cunha, M. A., Trajber, R., and Porto de Albuquerque, J.
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
College/School:	College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies
ISSN:	2411-3387
ISBN:	9788284270999
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Funder and Project Information

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
317845		Waterproofing Data: engaging stakeholders in the sustainable governance of flood risk for urban resilience	Joao Porto de Albuquerque	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	ES/S006982/2	S&PS - Urban Studies

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Deposit and Record Details

ID Code:	274997
Depositing User:	Mr Diego Pajarito Grajales
Datestamp:	15 Jul 2022 08:33
Last Modified:	06 Apr 2023 01:30
Date of acceptance:	3 March 2022
Date of first online publication:	22 May 2022
Data Availability Statement:	No