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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Bad Science on Open Science

By On 25/10/2011 · Leave a Comment

“Bad Science” is the Ben Goldacre’s column on the Guardian about the frequent misuse of scientific facts in our media. So, his endorsement in favor of citizen science (and of open data too, reported here with a great delay, sorry for that) has a doubled value:

Yes, folk trials would have flaws. They […]

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Who are the civic hackers?

By On 22/10/2011 · Leave a Comment

There are only a few days left (< 31 oct) to participate to this survey.

This survey is part of a study on “collaborative production in eGovernment services” for the European Commission (www.ourservices.eu). The survey is aimed at those people who are improving public services “from the outside”, in order to understand […]

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