Can citizen science deliver to society? · 3rd MYGEOSS Call for innovative apps 2016 Are we able to...
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Can citizen science deliver to
society?
Speaker Name: Ralph Dum
Speaker Affiliation: European Commission
Session Organiser: Stephane Berghmans
ICT is changing the way we interact, create, and innovate:New opportunities for citizen empowerment arise
ICT allows massive scaling
• 'Online Alexandrian library': wikipedia....
• 'Online Agora': social media like blogs, twits, facebook, …
• New business models (amazon – e-bay - Uber)
• Information and data abundance (wait for IOT!)
• 'How to make (almost) everything’ : 3D printing, fablabs,,,,
What uses for society?
Crowdsourcing and collective intelligence (CI)
ICT is not replacing human intelligence (AI) but federating intelligence(s) to
arrive collectively at novel solutions to urgent problems (CI).
Citizen science: Open access to knowledge and data
Joint gathering/verification of facts
Co-creation: Open access to tools of production
DIY ....maker movement....
Citizen engagement – 'online Polis': Narrative power decoupled from authority
ICT allows (co-)constructing new narratives that guide society.
You are here
Internet universe – connecting everybody
OPEN SCIENCE
OPEN INNOVATION
OPEN CULTURE
Street-level mapping in London of noise and air pollution
(nitrogen dioxide)
• Mobile phones of volunteers equipped with sensors and apps
• Volunteers collectively construct a pollution map of London
• Volunteers also annotate their data (noisy, smelly, (un)pleasant…)
From collective data to social change?
Hints on possible impact/feedback of the data collectively gathered
on individual and collective behavior .
Collective mapping
and
behavioural change
EC funded project EVERYAWARE
http://www.everyaware.eu/
'A data state of mind:
data can change mindsets ' (Hans Roslin)
"Revolutions do not happen when a society adopts new tools but
only when it adopts novel behaviors". (Clay Shirky)
The Cons
If everybody is a scientist, why science education? Scientific practice needs to be respected.Crowdsourcing does not replace thinking.
Role of the 'expert': Debasing the scientific currency In public (online) space expert findings (the 'truth') become one opinion among many.
Methodological issues:e.g. Data quality and curation.
Pros and Cons:Many opportunities and a lot of hype
Can citizen science deliver to society?
Fermín Serrano Sanz,
Executive Director Ibercivis Foundation
2015 Open laboratories
2014 Collective intelligence
2013 Policy making on citizen science governance
2012 Crowdsourcing analysis of scientific data
2011 Volunteer sensing for data collection
2010 Participatory experiments
2009 Serious games
2016 CS Observatories
National foundation to support and promote CS experiments and activities
2008 Volunteer computing
10 years +50K citizen scientists, +50 experiments +40 research groups
Citizen Science
Observatory
In Spain
Physics, Biotechnolohy,
Human Behaviour, ICT, Mathematics,
Environmental monitoring, Biodiversity,
Social Sciences, Humanites, Economics, Arts,
Protyping,Robotics, A.I, Epidemiology, etc.
a map of odour nuisance reports using the nose of volunteers
a tool to trigger policy action
3rd MYGEOSS Call for innovative apps 2016
Are we able to find new research questions and new approaches thanks to citizen science?
PROS & CONS
Society is delivering to Science all along the research workflow
Citizen science adds new values (not only scientific)
to science, to society and to science-society interactions
But the win-win is unbalanced ACADEMIA PULL > SOCIETY PUSH
(*) Join #CitSciChat TODAY on RRI and #citizenscience
From 16h to 17h Manchester time
Can Citizen Science
deliver to society?