WeCount Engagement Toolkit Phase 5: Reflection &amp; Legacy
Creators: name: Ideas For Change
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Overall, the last phase of the WeCount case studies aims at implementing actions to ensure that: (1) the findings are effectively disseminated across different venues reaching appropriate audiences; (2) the impact of the case study is translated into policy making-oriented debates; (3) the learning from the action is captured and codified to foster both long-lasting impact and replicability of the pilot; (4) positive and negative experiences are captured, ordered, and disseminated to contribute to the advancement of the citizen science knowledge base as a whole. Planning for this stage should start at the beginning of the case study.<br> This phase includes three sub-phases that are described separately in the pdf file below together with a description of the tools and methods developed to address them.<br> <strong>Tool, Policy Brief:</strong> a tool specifically focused on targeting relevant governmental agencies and local authorities (both at the local and the international level. It consists of a four-pages document written specifically for policy makers and/or others interested or involved in formulating or influencing mobility-related policies. It includes the summary of the issue being tackled in WeCount, the approach and methodology employed in the project to address these issues, and a final section on “Policy Implications and Recommendations” <strong><em>Tool, Future Mobility Newspaper:</em></strong> An example of a dissemination tool that could also be used as a call for action to larger local communities (even beyond the end of WeCount funding period) is the Future Mobility Newspaper, i.e. a tool that consists of a canvas that gives a structured way to envision and effectively communicate future desirable scenarios that will ideally come true in the medium or long-term. The key aspect here is to stimulate participants’ creativity in planning the journey from the WeCount intervention towards effective positive change in favor of a more sustainable mobility. Change here can be envisioned both from a behavioural perspective (both at the individual and collective level) and from a policy point of view. <strong><em>Tool, Draw How You Would Like Your Street To Be</em></strong>, to be used during a workshop with children, this tool is meant to stimulate their creativity in envisioning the streets where they live in a world where sustainable mobility becomes the norm. The tool consists of a downloadable and editable canvas divided in two parts. To be implemented, it requires a first explanation of what mobility is. Following this part, the team asks participating kids to draw on the left side of the canvas how their streets look like today; second, following an extensive explanation of the concept of sustainable mobility, the team can organise a funny and simple visualisation of the data collected through the Telraam devices in the area (e.g., through a game). Based on the data and sustained by the concepts of sustainable mobility introduced to the children, the team asks them to draw how they would like their streets to be in the future on the right side of the canvas.