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Welcome to the wiki of Colombo Skylines; a simulation of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) area using Cities: Skylines. This wiki serves as a comprehensive guide to our methodology, setup process, and findings.
- Methodology
- Setting up
- Data Sources
- Challenges and Limitations
- Future Improvements
- Contributing
- License
This is a project by Watchdog Sri Lanka (team-watchdog). Watchdog is a multidisciplinary team of journalists, researchers and software engineers, operating under the Appendix umbrella. We hunt misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tools.
We began in April 2019, days after the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, as a group of concerned citizens trying to counter misinformation. We did this amidst government crackdowns on freedom of expression and mass hysteria caused by fake news and rumors, building a mobile app that was used by over 200,000 people to verify information and counteract rumors in their own networks.
We've been called an “open-source intelligence research collective”, and that's fairly accurate. We use a lot of OSINT techniques - a combination of data scraping, analysis of publicly available documents and datasets, paired with old-school boots-on-the-ground journalism.