Organizationally based citizen science: considerations for implementation

Factors Affecting the Implementation of Citizen Science in Iranian Universities

Citizen science is a form of public participation research based on public participation that provides multiple benefits to researchers, citizens, policymakers, and society, as well as research and innovation cycles. Literature review indicates that universities have a significant role in management and implementation of citizen science projects. Despite the emphasis on citizen participation in...

Citizen Science for Citizen Access to Law

Over 2014, the Cornell University Legal Information Institute and the Australian National University worked with users of the Cornell LII site in a citizen science project to collect over 43,000 crowdsourced assessments of the readability of legal and other sentences. Readers (“citizen scientists”) on legislative pages of the LII site were asked to rate passages from the United States Code and ...

Cloud Computing for Citizen Science

UbiqUitoUs sUstainability: Citizen sCienCe & aCtivism Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up community participation. Ubiquitous computing is transforming from being mostly about professional communication and social interaction to a sensor rich personal measurement platform that can empower ind...

Making Waves: Marine Citizen Science for Impact

1 Environmental Research Institute, North Highland College, University of the Highlands and Islands, Thurso, United Kingdom, 2 Reef Check Australia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4 Remote Sensing Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queenslan...