Safecast partnered with FabCafe Taipei and Loftwork Taiwan to inspire a new generation of citizen scientists and innovators and equip them with the tools they need to succeed. The collaboration was part of the Future Dynamic Program, an initiative aimed at fostering creative leadership and practical problem-solving skills among Taiwanese University students. The partnership included…
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As part of a visit to Japan, the Dutch Fintech association visited Safecast’s offices for a session on data and innovation. Throughout both the initial presentation by Azby Brown and the subsequent conversations, it was clear that there is an overlap between Safecast’s approach and that of many of the fintech companies taking part. For…
Safecast was recently visited by a group of French master’s students to learn more about our organization and approach, including how Safecast works to drive innovation and develop crowdsourced solutions. The group of students from Digital College in France are studying digital marketing, digital communication, social media, web marketing, project management, start-up management, e-commerce, digital…
The Safecast field trip with TIPS students took place on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 13:30-15:30. The event was held at the Safecast Office and FabCafe MTRL in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Safecast is an international volunteer-driven non-profit organization whose goal is to create useful, accessible, and granular environmental data. All Safecast data is published, free of…
[:en] The bGeigie has been taking a small break from its day job collecting radiation data and touring museums in Asia and North America. The visits are merely a different kind of work, though, as Safecast’s bGeigie Nano and data visualizations have been featured two interesting recent exhibitions. One, called “Make It Make It,” was at…
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Safecast workshops were a whirlwind of activity in the late summer months with a series of events, many of which were for kids and families. One of the season’s highlights was the third Safecast Mori Kids’ Mirai Summer Camp Workshop on Radiation, held in Tokyo’s famous Roppongi Hills. The event took place over two sold-out…
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Each year we at Safecast work to organize a public event where we can both discuss our current efforts as well as highlight others do work in the open / environmental data areas. In previous years this has taken the form of The Safecast Conference which we’ve hosted in Tokyo. For 2017 we wanted to do an event…
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Safecast travelled to Taiwan for part of the Safecast Asia network kick-off, as well as citizen science radiation workshops and data gathering tours. Safecast was in Taiwan as part of the Asia Network Kick-off tour, and held two workshops. One was at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) near Taipei, and the second was held…
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Safecast was in Hong Kong for part of the Safecast Asia network kick-off, as well as for a citizen science radiation workshop and data gathering tours. Over 30 people, including children, some as young as eight, took part in the workshop that covered introduction to the basics of measuring radiation, what radiation is, how…
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Fresh on the heels of our 6th anniversary, we’re proud to announce that we’ll be co-hosting a conference at MIT next month. Our World, Our Data: Taking Collective Responsibility for Citizen and Environmental Sensing We live in a world increasingly driven by data and at a time in which the amount of it is increasing…
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