Citizen Cyberscience Summit – look beneath the surface Muki Haklay @mhaklay

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February16th – 18th

2012

RGS & UCLLondon

Web availability and interaction

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Increased level of education

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World population and students in tertiary education, World Bank data

Tertiary Ed World Population

Understanding scientific concepts

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© Sanja Gjenero (sxc.hu)

Problem

definitionData collection

Visualisation &

analysisAction

Classification

& basic analysis

Basic School

High School

University/College

Postgraduate

PhD

Literacy

Citizen Science today

Problem

definitionData collection

Visualisation &

analysisAction

Classification

& basic analysis

Basic School

High School

University/College

Postgraduate

PhD

Literacy

Participation in citizen science

• Collaborative science – problem definition, data collection and analysis

Level 4 ‘Extreme’

• Participation in problem definition and data collection

Level 3 ‘Participatory science’

• Citizens as basic interpreters Level 2 ‘Distributed

intelligence’

• Citizens as sensors Level 1

‘Crowdsourcing’

#CCS14

• SETTING THE SCENE (DAY 1)

• LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE (DAY 2)

• GET DOWN TO BUSINESS…TOGETHER! (DAY 3)

#CCS14

• LISTEN (academic conference focus)

• TALK (academic + workshop + talkshop)

• DO (hackday and practitioners talks)

Today

• Talks and workshops• Citizen Science Café• Art – the citizen cyberscience nightmare wall! • Think and start working towards challenges• 8x5min slots in the unconference session!

• EveryAware Symposium• Citizen Science & Urban Science • Workshops from sponsors: ESRI tools & National

Geographic Citizen Geography & Socientize policy workshop & Connecting Communities

G04 – Coffee , talk, shareGustav Tuck – listenG08 – listenG07 – workshop217 – workshopClass room – workshop

Be nice to the neighbours

• We need you!

– Volunteering (reception desk)

– Keep the place tidy, help after the reception

– Keep to time in your session

– Link your talk and storify to Lanyrd

– And talk with as many people as you can