Open Data BCN

BACC is a non-profit and transparent association formed by bicycle users that represents the interests of cyclists. They develop promotional campaigns, and propose solutions to cities and towns that want to introduce bicycle for transport and leisure in urban mobility.

Within the accident analysis , with the collaboration of the CARTO platform, that this collective began to do this year, datasets of Accidents managed by de local police in the city of Barcelona have been analyzed  and created maps about injured people on bicycles, motorcycles or mopeds, as well as run over pedestrians...

BACC invites all citizens and research groups to use this data to put the accident rate in context in Barcelona, to identify the concurrent factors in accidents and reduce them in future.

Everything begins at Barcelona Challenge Canodrom,  a pioneering innovation event organized by the City Council in co-operation with Sónar+D which aims to involve the creative sector of the city in the creation of public policy.

With this idea, the project led by Arsgames and named “Juegos del común”, passed the first round of the Barcelona Challenge Canodrom achieving the highest score among the 60 different approaches that where presented. The projects were valued according to their suitability to concepts such as citizen science, collaborative economy, social and artistic innovation, technopolitics and use of open data. The participants of the selected project enjoyed tutoring by the Barcelona City Council.

What is Juegos del común and who are Arsgames?

Juegos del común is a project of data gamification based on the concept of data games, aiming to introduce a new approach in the reuse of open data rather than the mostly know uses such of apps, visualizations of data and data journalism. This interactive experience arranges game structures in order to leverage citizens’ participation.