Analysis Phase

As soon as the crowdsourced research for the community starts, the analysis phase begins for you. While the campaign is running, you look at the first responses. You can check evidence, read the information provided, or contact the people who have given you permission to get in touch. The responses reveal patterns and provide research leads that you can then follow up on.

Once the campaign is complete, you evaluate all the data you have collected, follow up on every single lead and, ideally, identify structural problems behind the individual cases. This results in articles and posts that you share with the community — because you owe them these research results.

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An example — 'Achtung, Schulweg!' 🎒

On the topic of school routes, for example, statements that identified a specific route as a problem or named a specific issue were interesting. For example, that a school route along a side street is used as a detour in the morning due to traffic jams on the main road.

This enabled us to write very specific, individual stories in which those affected had their say, whose contact details we already had thanks to crowdsourced research. If a particular problem occurred frequently, then a story that pointed to a systemic problem such as a lack of 30 km/h zones, poor bicycle traffic planning for new school buildings, or a lack of structural restrictions on car traffic was interesting.