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SUMMARY:Using Low-cost\, Research-led\, Decentralised Networks to Increase
  Access to High Quality Microspatial Data on Building Stocks\, and the Bui
 lt and Natural Infrastructure - Polly Hudson\, Senior Research Fellow\, Th
 e Alan Turing Institute
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nThe Colouring Cities Research Programme (CCRP) i
 s overseen by an informal\, international academic consortium that uses it
 s decentralized research-led network\, to co-create and manage\, permanent
  open data/visualisation platforms across countries. These provide standar
 dised\, open microspatial data on the characteristics\, performance\, and 
 short/long-term dynamics of building stocks and built and natural infrastr
 ucture. They also test feedback loops between live streaming\, computation
 al inference\, and crowdsourcing approaches to improve coverage and reliab
 ility of data and to support cross-sector/multidisciplinary engagement. Re
 search Institutions from 30 countries are currently involved. The programm
 e has been set up to accelerate progress towards UN SDGs\; to provide acce
 ss to big data required to exploit the potential of AI & ML and gain insig
 hts at scale\; to reduce research costs and overlaps and speed up the test
 ing of research applications by pooling expertise\, funding and ideas\, an
 d\; to ensure that areas such as data standardisation\, uncertainty in dat
 a\, and citizen privacy and security are prioritised\, as commercial deman
 d for microspatial data grows.\n\n*Bio*\n\nPolly Hudson is a Senior Resear
 ch Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute and PI for the Colouring Cities Res
 earch Programme. She was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre
  for Advanced Spatial Analysis University College and held a Visiting Fell
 owship at the Kellogg Centre for the Historic Environment\, University of 
 Oxford. Relevant appointments include advisory/board positions for the Dep
 artment of Culture\, Media and Sport\, English Heritage\, The Royal Instit
 ute of British Architects\, and the National Lottery (charitable arm).\n\n
 Polly trained as an architectural historian and initially worked in furnit
 ure making\, historic building restoration\, museum design\, and community
  planning. In 1996 she set up the Building Exploratory charitable trust in
  London as a prototype for multidisciplinary knowledge-sharing centres abo
 ut local building stocks\, which was co-built over 6 years by citizens\, l
 ocal and central government\, industry\, non-profits & academia. The first
  iteration of the Colouring Cities mapping platform interface was tested i
 n 1998. Between 2014 and 2019 Polly received EPSRC funding from UCL to dev
 elop the CCRP concept within academia where she partnered with Tom Russell
  who built the back and front end for the London prototype & advised on op
 en licences. Since 2020 her position as CCRP PI has been funded by The Ala
 n Turing Institute.\n
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