Monitoring radiation worldwide with citizen science

Saturday, 12 June 2021 - 10:00am to 10:30am
screenshot from Safecast. Map of eastern coast of japan showing radiation levels using colour - mostly blues, but red and yellow around Fukushima.

An interview between Joi Iti, Sean Bonner and Pieter Franken, the co-founders of Safecast, a citizen science organisation that formed in response to Fukushima nuclear disaster. At the time of the disaster, information on local radiation level was scarce, but their organisation combined a crowd-sourcing approach with cutting edge and easily sourced technology to quickly begin monitoring, collecting, and openly sharing information on environmental radiation.

This interview was originally recorded for Joi's conversations podcast (https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2016/12/24/safecast-conver.html) and is used here under Creative Commons licence 4.0

Image is screenshot of Safecast.org's map of Eastern Japan, that shows heightened radiation levels around Fukushima (the red and yellow areas).