Hacking Public Risk: Empowering Citizens with Environmental Data

Date: 

Monday, February 13, 2012, 11:30am to 12:30pm

Location: 

124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA

Sean Bonner, SafeCast
Jeffrey Warren, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
Co-sponsored by the Transparency Policy Project

Jeffrey Warren, director of research for PLOTS, and Sean Bonner, director at SafeCast, join the Transparency Policy Project to share their experiences in do-it-yourself environmental monitoring. The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) and SafeCast are two groups that have developed and deployed low-cost digital tools that people can use to monitor the effects of these disasters and other public risks on their environment.