Policy Brief: Enhancing community resilience to floods and adapting to extreme weather events with data-driven citizen science

This briefing is based on the findings of the Waterproofing Data and Global Challenges Research Fund Translation Award research projects, which aimed to investigate and rethink the governance of water-related risks, with a focus on social and cultural aspects of data practices. The researchers worked together with school students, teachers, community members and official agencies to co-produce knowledge and design strategies to reduce the impact of flood-related events. The projects developed a social data innovation combining community engagement, citizen science and data analytics to improve the resilience of communities to flooding. It includes a citizen-science mobile app, a model curriculum for schools, and a data analytics platform for developing early-warning models.
This policy brief has been authored by João Porto de Albuquerque, Vangelis Pitidis, Diego Pajarito Grajales & Leigh Walker.