The document discusses how citizen science and crowdsourcing can help address global challenges like public health, climate change, and biodiversity through projects that engage the public. It outlines The Crowd & The Cloud project which seeks to increase visibility and participation in citizen science and big data projects through a 4 part television series and social media. Examples of citizen science projects are given that involve tasks like monitoring birds, bees, pollution, Alzheimer's research, and mosquitoes to collect meaningful data at low costs with volunteers around the world.
5. THE CROWD & THE CLOUD (C&C)
seeks to increase the visibility and
credibility of—and participation in—
projects using citizen science as well
as Big Data to address key global
and local challenges including
public health, air and water quality,
climate change and biodiversity.
6. CITIZEN SCIENCE
"a form of collaboration where members of the public
participate in scientific research to meet real world goals."
(Bowser & Shanley, 2013, 45)
Citizen sensing
Crowd-sourcing…
Citizen monitoring
community-based participatory research
Public Participation in Scientific Research (PPSR)
civic technoscience
Quantified Self
Community Based Science for Action
Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS)
policy/society-
oriented citizen
science
civic science
community science
citizen cyber-scientist
community
based
monitoring
Volunteer Species Monitoring
community-
based data
collection
"Democratized Principal Investigator" citizen scientists
Research by
nonprofessional
investigators
Adventurers for Conservation & Science
Nerds For Nature
10. 4 one hour programs for US
public television & international (April 2017-2020)
CrowdAndCloud.org, PBS.org, Amazon Prime
Social media (2016-2018)
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
collaborations and partnerships with
#CitSci projects, NGOs & government agencies
Helping to turn “View-ers into Do-ers”
43. 338 Citizen Science biodiversity projects
~2.3 million volunteers
$2.5 BILLION dollars
(Theobald, et al.)
44. eBird checklist labor to date =
FOUR TIMES
the human effort
it took
to build the
Empire State Building
338 Citizen Science biodiversity projects
~2.3 million volunteers
$2.5 BILLION dollars
(Theobald, et al.)
45. "Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing in the Digital Age:
Birds, Bees, Brains —> A Sustainable & Healthy Planet"