Webinar
📅 Date: Monday, 16 June 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00–13:30 UTC
📍 Online | Free registration required
Citizen science is emerging as a powerful tool to complement official statistics particularly in air quality monitoring driven by increasing demand for high-quality, timely, and locally relevant environmental data. This 90-minute webinar brings together global experts to explore how citizen-generated data can be better integrated into national statistical systems to address data gaps, strengthen policy action, and promote inclusive, participatory approaches to environmental monitoring.
This session will feature experts from the UN, research institutions, and the citizen science community sharing:
- Limitations of current air quality data and where citizen science fits in
- Successful and practical examples of citizen-led air quality monitoring projects
- FAIR principles and metadata to make CS data (re-)usable and trusted
- Innovative methods for integrating diverse datasets
- A call to action for collaboration across sectors
SPEAKERS
- Haoyi Chen – UN Statistics Division
- Simon Hodson – Executive Director, CODATA
- Matti Heikkurinen– Project Portfolio Manager, CODATA
- Nuria Castell – Senior Scientist at NILU
- Luis Gonzalez Morales – Chief, Data Innovation Section, UN Statistics Division
- Flavio Rizzolo – Senior Data and Interoperability Architect, Statistics Canada
- Carolynne Hultquist – Director of Geospatial Data Science at the University of Canterbury and Co-chair of the CODATA Task Group on Citizen-Generated Data for the SDGs.
- Faith Nangila – Community of Practice Coordinator Air Quality Monitoring CSGP