RACiMo：公民環境監測網絡——一個以學生為中心的公民科學網絡，用於哥倫比亞的環境監測、資料素養與氣候意識

摘要

本文追溯了哥伦比亚工業大學（Universidad Industrial de Santander）所推動的公民科學與環境教育倡議「公民環境監測網絡」（Red Ambiental Ciudadana de Monitoreo, RACiMo）之演化歷程。RACiMo 透過一系列版本，從以學校為基礎的開放硬體計畫，逐步發展為整合氣象與空氣品質數據、開放資料實務及以學生為中心的研究之區域環境監測網絡。該計畫的核心目標是培訓公民——尤其是中學生、教師及大學導師——使其能夠記錄、管理、分析、詮釋及傳播與當地情境相關的氣候與空氣品質數據。RACiMo 已涵蓋哥倫比亞桑坦德省（Santander）約515名來自城市、都會區、鄉村及高原（páramo）社區的學生。該計畫從以「與他人共同實作」（Do-It-With-Others）方式組裝的 Arduino-Raspberry Pi 站台，進展至低維護需求的商用儀器，以及由專業氣象與空氣品質站組成的跨市鎮網絡。其教學法亦從「透過組裝感測器學習」轉變為「透過 Python、Jupyter notebooks、視覺化工具及學生主導的研究專案，分析真實環境數據集來學習」。現行的 RACiMo-Orquídeas 版本將網絡擴展至五個市鎮，聚焦於當地環境議題（如貨運交通與工業活動），並透過資料庫與互動工具提供公開數據存取。本文討論了開放性、教育價值、可靠性、數據品質、永續性與可擴展性之間的權衡。文中主張，若當地社區不僅接受數據收集的訓練，更學會批判性地理解與運用數據，則公民環境監測將能強化氣候意識與調適能力。

English

This paper traces the evolution of Red Ambiental Ciudadana de Monitoreo (RACiMo), a citizen-science and environmental-education initiative developed by Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia. RACiMo has evolved through successive editions from a school-based open-hardware programme into a regional environmental monitoring network that integrates meteorological and air-quality data, open-data practices, and student-centred research. The project's central objective is to train citizens, especially secondary-school students, teachers, and university mentors, to record, curate, analyse, interpret, and communicate climate and air-quality data relevant to their local contexts. RACiMo has involved approximately 515 students from urban, metropolitan, rural, and páramo communities in Santander, Colombia. It has progressed from Arduino-Raspberry Pi stations assembled through a Do-It-With-Others approach to low-maintenance commercial instruments and a multi-municipality network of professional weather and air-quality stations. Its pedagogy has shifted from learning by building sensors to learning by analysing real environmental datasets through Python, Jupyter notebooks, visualisation tools, and student-led research projects. The current RACiMo-Orquídeas implementation expands the network across five municipalities, emphasises local environmental issues such as freight traffic and industrial activity, and provides public access to data through repositories and interactive tools. The paper discusses the trade-offs between openness, educational value, reliability, data quality, sustainability, and scalability. It argues that citizen environmental monitoring can strengthen climate awareness and adaptation when local communities are trained not only to collect data, but also to understand and use it critically.

RACiMo：公民環境監測網絡——一個以學生為中心的公民科學網絡，用於哥倫比亞的環境監測、資料素養與氣候意識

RACiMo: Red Ambiental Ciudadana de Monitoreo: A Student-Centred Citizen Science Network for Environmental Monitoring, Data Literacy, and Climate Awareness in Colombia

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