Extreme Citizen Science

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites/

"We aim to address the challenges of our globalised world through the
creation of an interdisciplinary research group to focus on developing
'Extreme' Citizen Science tools and methodologies for use by
communities, regardless of their level of literacy. The tools will be
used to collect data, understand it, and share and use this knowledge
to empower local groups and support action. This can be for monitoring
environmental change or dealing with other issues.

Current Citizen Science practice assumes that educated citizens can
participate in scientific data collection, but not in its analysis or
in formulating research questions. However, the greatest impact of
science can be gained when participants use scientific tools to
improve their environment locally and share the knowledge globally.
Thus, 'extreme' in this case refers both to the extent of the
scientific engagement and to the formerly excluded environments in
which it can be used."

see tedx talk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPfryZxUs0 and a
Pygmie Anti Poaching Software

and

Anti Poaching Apps for Pygmy Hunters
(http://uclexcites.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/anti-poaching-application/)
"Our challenge is to provide non-literate indigenous people with tools
that empower them to take action, and protect their local environment
and way of life. We focus on developing an application to be used with
robust Android devices and allow Pygmy hunter-gatherers in Central
Africa to capture points of resources, points of abuses, illegal
poaching activities, capture audio stories and photos. The collected
data could compose data maps and be used by the local authorities for
monitoring and protecting the forest ecosystem. Furthermore, the
collected data could compose an intelligent map which will recognize
emerging trends and inform both the communities and the authorities."


Cheers
t

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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

This proceedings includes a number of Volunteered Geographic Information Papers (VGI) related to Extreme Citizen Science see session 3 - 4  that starts at page 193 (http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/19284/1/19284.pdf)

Session 3B Volunteered Geographic Information I

• An Exploration of Volunteered Geographic Information Stakeholders
• Development of a server to manage a customised local version of OpenStreetMap in Ireland
• Polygon Processing with OpenStreetMap XML Data
• Rate-my-place: a social network application for crowd-sourcing vernacular geographic areas

Session 4B Volunteered Geographic Information II

• How Many Volunteers Does It Take To Map An Area Well?
• A step towards the improvement of spatial data quality of Web 2.0 geo- applications: the case of OpenStreetMap
• Automatically generating keywords for georeferenced images
• Micro-blogging mashups: extending the value of social networks through spatial representation

Cheers

t

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites/
>
> "We aim to address the challenges of our globalised world through the
> creation of an interdisciplinary research group to focus on developing
> 'Extreme' Citizen Science tools and methodologies for use by
> communities, regardless of their level of literacy. The tools will be
> used to collect data, understand it, and share and use this knowledge
> to empower local groups and support action. This can be for monitoring
> environmental change or dealing with other issues.
>
> Current Citizen Science practice assumes that educated citizens can
> participate in scientific data collection, but not in its analysis or
> in formulating research questions. However, the greatest impact of
> science can be gained when participants use scientific tools to
> improve their environment locally and share the knowledge globally.
> Thus, 'extreme' in this case refers both to the extent of the
> scientific engagement and to the formerly excluded environments in
> which it can be used."
>
> see tedx talk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPfryZxUs0 and a
> Pygmie Anti Poaching Software
>
> and
>
> Anti Poaching Apps for Pygmy Hunters
> (http://uclexcites.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/anti-poaching-application/)
> "Our challenge is to provide non-literate indigenous people with tools
> that empower them to take action, and protect their local environment
> and way of life. We focus on developing an application to be used with
> robust Android devices and allow Pygmy hunter-gatherers in Central
> Africa to capture points of resources, points of abuses, illegal
> poaching activities, capture audio stories and photos. The collected
> data could compose data maps and be used by the local authorities for
> monitoring and protecting the forest ecosystem. Furthermore, the
> collected data could compose an intelligent map which will recognize
> emerging trends and inform both the communities and the authorities."
>
>
> Cheers
> t
>
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> 613-234-2805



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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805