The co-authored piece “Mainstreaming Civic Tech and Citizen Sensing” develops an approach to citizen sensing and civic tech as part of the broader interest in modes of governance and co-creation methods. Building on earlier work on environmental monitoring and environmental data gathered through crowdsourced citizen sensing approaches, Raetzsch and his co-authors propose a new interdisciplinary research agenda that also addresses questions of how knowledge moves between academic research, policymakers, journalists, and indeed, participatory citizen science practitioners. The article links to Raetzsch’s Infrapublics project that has been investigating “how journalists, citizens, cities, data providers and civic tech NGO’s can work together on a local level to shape infrastructures for civic communication in the connected city.”

The article is available open access.

Preferred citation format: Raetzsch, Christoph; Hamm, Andrea; Shibuya, Yuya (2023). “Mainstreaming Civic Tech and Citizen Sensing: A Research Agenda on Co-Creation Methods, Data Interfaces, and Impact Pathways.” Frontiers in Environmental Science 11. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1228487.