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Détails Please don't forget to register on Eventbrite if you want to attend this event: www.cleanairwithopendata.eventbrite.co.uk Open air quality data are a powerful, essential force to help us move towards clean air. The good thing is... you as a citizen can help measure and map local pollution levels! On March 3rd, Open Knowledge Belgium is organising a full-day event including talks and workshops on how to build your sensor and analyse, visualise and interpret open air quality data. This event aims to gather all different actors involved in the field of air quality and is absolutely open to everyone who wants to learn more about the topic. Come and join us to learn, meet and discuss the power of open knowledge! ----------------------------- Programme: 10:00-12:30: Several talks from citizens, experts, students, entrepreneurs, ... on open air quality data -Dries Van Ransbeeck & Evelyn De Wachter - InfluencAir, citizens measuring air quality in Brussels -Carina Veeckman - Participatory processes for air quality measurements through hackAIR -Tim Cassiers - Air quality projects by BRAL, a citizen movement in Brussels -Olav Peeters - Hosting open data endpoints at IRCEL-CELINE serving air quality data from the three Belgian regional government measurement networks. -Thomas Duvivier - The potential impact of a citizen-driven air quality measurement project -Vlatka Matkovic - Air quality and its implications on our health -Jon Perez - How to improve environmental policy with open data -Maarten Reyniers - Citizen project for mapping air quality in Leuven at high spatial resolution 12:30-13:30: Lunch (included in your free ticket) 13:30-17:00: Workshops on how to build your sensor + analyse, visualise and interpret open air quality data. Please bring your own computer and feel free to come up with your own questions. We'll help you as much as we can. Pieter Vander Vennet - Build your sensor Dominik Rubo - Analysing and visualising open air quality data (https://github.com/dr-1/air-data-workshop) 17:00-18:00: Drinks Questions or suggestions? Or want to talk about your ideas or initiatives? That's great! Just let us know via dries@openknowledge.be. ----------------------------------- This event is organized by Open Knowledge Belgium on Open Data Day, the annual celebration of open data all over the world. For the seventh time in history, groups from around the world will create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities. It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in government, business and civil society. All outputs are open for everyone to use and re-use. • What to bring Computer • Important to know Please don't forget to register on Eventbrite if you want to attend this event: cleanairwithopendata.eventbrite.co.uk

Open Data Day is about to take place on 3 March 2018. Every year thousands of people all over the world celebrate the benefits, power and joy of Open Data. Where to find the best places to make the most out of this special Saturday?

Détails • What we'll do We will run around the Blekerij and indoor map the venue in preparation of the Newline event. This way, HS Ghent will have indoor maps available for the guests. I might give a small presentation on indoor mapping, although I don't have to much experience either. • What to bring WARM CLOTHES! It is a cold, somewhat open place; you'll cool running around. Your computer and/or mapping devices

What we'll do We found 13.000 missing roads in Flanders, Belgium! Help us map them with the tools we made. We'll teach you how to do it, and if you're interested tell you all about our plans with the project. We're doing this during the Biweekly Civic Hack night, so you could work on some other projects too. • What to bring Bring a laptop, a mouse is handy.

What?   Nitrogen dioxide is one of the main air pollutants being studied worldwide, mainly produced as a result of road traffic and combustion of fossil fuels, for example for domestic heating and in industrial processes. Besides having negative health effects, nitrogen dioxide also contributes to the atmospherical formation of other air pollutants, such as particulate matter and ozone. It is because of these effects nitrogen dioxide limits have been set by the European Commission and the World Health Organisation.   Because of the importance of NO2 monitoring, the Belgian Interregional Environment Agency, the Flemish Institute for Technological Research and the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy co-operated in the BELSPO-funded project “Belgian Urban NO2 Monitoring Based on APEX remote sensing” (BUMBA). On the occasion of the end of this project, we organise a study day, where the results of the BUMBA project will be presented, among several other air pollution monitoring projects.   This event will provide an opportunity for multiple groups of interest to come together, learn about and discuss causes for nitrogen dioxide pollution, different ways of air pollution monitoring and to be shown future perspectives.