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Citizen cyberscientists gather in 2012

By On 13/01/2012 · Leave a Comment

The 2012 edition of the London Citizen Cyberscience Summit has been recently announced. It will take place in London from 16 to 18 February 2012, and some leading figures of worldwide citizen science projects have already confirmed their attendance there. The proposal for papers and talks should be submitted here. The announced three-day […]

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GIS Wikification by the masses

By On 11/01/2012 · Leave a Comment

A new interesting article on volunteered “GIS systems, OpenStreetMap and all that stuff is out, whose long long title is “Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and Sensor Web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples”. It is authored (among others) by Maged N. Kamel Boulos and […]

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Inside, not outside

By On 19/12/2011 · Leave a Comment

Citizen science projects grow in number and in relevance everyday. As research funding and credibility risk to be undermined by the current crisis, professional scientists should be happy about this new trend: lots of people ask them to collaborate to specific science problems and help them in a way or another. Unfortunately, scientists do not […]

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Data: visualize or analyze?

By On 12/12/2011 · Leave a Comment

At the Eye On Earth Summit, a special working group has been devoted to crowdsourcing for environmental purposes. The White Paper introducing the discussion is a very clear presentation of the field, and it is useful for a broad audience – from citizens interested into the potential of social media to scientists writing their […]

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The wisdom of the (optimal) crowd

By On 24/11/2011 · Leave a Comment

Dozens of new citizen science projects are generated daily. Most of them include beautiful maps, fair amounts of crowdsourced data, amazing visualization tools. But how many of these projects provide a really good representation of the monitored projects? In other words: we can ask birdwatchers to monitor birds’ migration paths, but are we really […]

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