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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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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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Camping on the crisis

By On 19/11/2011 · 2 Comments

As multiple crisis of natural and human source hit Italy, the country becomes a natural playground to test and apply crowdsourcing techniques for emergency prevention and management. In a meeting in Bologna recent developments in this area will be discussed.

Crisis and disasters have played a major role in the […]

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Participatory Sensing: Crowdsourcing Data from Mobile Smartphones in Urban Spaces

By On 08/11/2011 · 1 Comment

Another recommendation for you. Sadly enough, scientific literature on citizen science are rarely freely available for the citizens…
Participatory Sensing: Crowdsourcing Data from Mobile Smartphones in Urban Spaces
by Salil S. Kanhere

The recent wave of sensor-rich, Internet-enabled, smart mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone has opened the door for a […]

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How to monitor Patras with smartphones

By On 08/11/2011 · Leave a Comment

Sorry for being offline so long. We are back now, and recommend you a new paper on the participatory monitoring topics:
PatrasSense: Participatory Monitoring of Environmental Conditions in Urban Areas Using Sensor Networks and Smartphones

by Pantelis Vikatos, Evangelos Theodoridis, Georgios Mylonas and Athanasios  Tsakalidi

This work discusses PatrasSense, a system […]

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