I am working on a project that asks the question: “How does technological accessibility form intangible boundaries?” As part of this research, I am planning to create a network-quality-based technological map of the city (“techno-cartography”) as an experimental case study.

The project aims to visualise the geographic boundaries produced by technological infrastructure and to make these boundaries perceptible to people in their everyday lives. Participants will reconstruct the network quality of their own locations onto the city map, generating a new kind of topography. Through this, users will be able to sensitively understand the technological strata they belong to, identify points of exclusion based on these metrics, and gain grounds to raise questions about structural inequalities. To design and implement this, I would like to ask for your expert advice on several points:

Which metrics should be collected to represent “network quality” as objectively as possible?

What would be a realistic methodology for crowdsourcing this data?

How can we reduce variation and bias in crowdsourced measurements?

What kinds of technical, physical, and ethical risks should I anticipate?

Other technical advice or open-source references

More technical details and full context are available on my GitHub.

https://github.com/banana42311/Technological-topography

If you're interested, please check the repository here thanks!