Tracking Science: An Alternative for Those Excluded by Citizen Science

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 ...

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...

Cloud Computing for Citizen Science

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...

A Primer for Citizen Science Engagement

You do not need a well-funded lab, a doctorate degree , or even a background in science to contribute to scientific progress in important ways. Citizen scientists participate either directly or indirectly in research projects organized by professional scientists. This is not merely a hobbyist movement. Global problems require large-scale data collection and processing. Dedicated citizen scienti...