Publicaties
Collaborative Governance platform for Social Innovation in Brussels Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Social Innovation (SI) is often perceived as the holy grail to societal problems. It emerges from an unmet social need and is strongly linked with community collaboration through participatory processes. However, there is still a lack of empirical evidence about successful SI initiatives that created effective public value. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to share the experience of a particular collaborative platform for governmental ...
Urban Living Labs and Citizen Science: From Innovation and Science towards Policy Impacts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
City governments are currently exploring different participatory mechanisms in order to meet the growing demand in society for deliberate decision-making. Through developments in sensing technology, data processing and visualization, citizen science is emerging as a powerful tool for the general public to participate in scientific research that informs policy. Citizen science can be used as an approach in Urban Living Labs, whereby public and ...
Co-Creating Cities Together: Methods and Tools Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sharing Economy Pathways to Government Innovation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Data Mining in the Development of Mobile Health Apps: Assessing In-App Navigation Through Markov Chain Analysis Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
Background: Mobile apps generate vast amounts of user data. In the mobile health (mHealth) domain, researchers are increasingly discovering the opportunities of log data to assess the usage of their mobile apps. To date, however, the analysis of these data are often limited to descriptive statistics. Using data mining techniques, log data can offer significantly deeper insights. Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess how Markov ...
Communicatie bij burgerwetenschap Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Moving beyond the traditional foodbank model: a testimony from the SavingFood project Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Citizen Empowerment through Air Quality Monitoring Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Nowadays, urban air pollution is one of the greatest environmental and social challenges. However, air quality data are often nor representative nor accessible to citizens. Within this context, digital social innovations (DSI) are emerging to foster profound change in a collaborative manner. This paper investigates the potential of hackAIR as a digital social innovation for citizen environmental sensing in the context of urban air quality. The ...