Open source technology for citizens political participation in smarter cities, starting with environmental monitoring
Smart Citizen is a platform to generate participatory processes of people in the cities. Connecting data, people and knowledge, the objective of the platform is to serve as a node for building productive and open indicators, and distributed tools, and thereafter the collective construction of the city for its own inhabitants.
Environmental monitoring is the first application of Smart Citizen, via the "Smart Citizen Kit, an Open-Source Environmental Monitoring Platform consisting of arduino-compatible hardware, data visualization web and mobile app, and a full featured Rest API.