The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit attracted more than 170 people to learn, engage, discuss, and network with people from a wide range of disciplines, interests and walks of life and we got to and roll up their sleeves experience the sense of mastery and empowerment in the DIY workshops.
This page is a resource with links to all our live blog posts, written by the ExCiteS team. It also provides links to external news articles and blog posts featuring the summit.
Citizen Cyberscience Summit 2012:
Thursday 16th of February
- Learning from two citizen science case studies: EvolutionMegaLab.org and iSpot.org.uk – Jonathan Silvertown
- Without Citizens you don’t get the Science – Lessons from projects with 60 to 6 million contributions – Simon Tokumine
- Community-source structured metadata of English place-names – Stuart Dunn
- Motivation by Design: Technologies, Experiences, and Incentives – Andrea Wiggins
- Motivation, engagement, and learning outcomes – Tina Philips
- Drivers of participation in citizen cyberscience projects: an empirical study of Stardust@home – Ofer Arazy
- Citizen Cyberscience in South Africa – Ngoni Munyaradzi
- Citizen Science in China – Wenjing Wu
- ForestWatchers (Brazil) – Daniel Gonzalez
- e-infrastructures for citizen science: an EC perspective – Kirsti Ala-Mutka
- Citizen Science in Cameroon
Friday 17th of February
- Mobile Citizen Science – David Aanensen & Tom Igoe
- Tom Igoe at the Citizen Cyberscience Summit – Keynote
- Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science: Open-Source Development of Tools for Grassroots Science – Sahnnon Dosemagen and Sara Wylie
- Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) Instant Wild – Alasdair Davies
- Citizen Science in the EU project EveryAware – Vittorio Loreto
- Participatory noise mapping works! An evaluation of participatory sensing as an alternative to standard techniques for environmental monitoring – Ellie D’Hondt
- Being a citizen scientist – Darlene Cavalier
- Experience in the Riverfly trust – Bridget Peacock
- Rechenkraft – Uwe Beckert
- CERN@school -Becky Parker
- Community air pollution monitoring in London – Louise Francis
- Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) – Lisa Haskel and Nicola Triscott, The Arts Catalyst, London
- The Normal Flora Project: Bacteria and Bioart – Anna Dumitriu
- Participatory Sensing – Eric Paulos
Saturday 18th of February
- Open Knowledge and science – Rufus Pollock
- Open science: legal concerns for online collaborators
- iBats: Using smart phones and citizen networks to globally monitor bats – Kate Jones
- DIY workshop: Arduino-based thermal and humidity sensor
- DIY workshop: Public Laboratory Thermal Flashlight Workshop
The summit was also featured in speakers’ blogs, news articles, social media and radio broadcasts:
Video:
LiveStream of the talks and presentations
External blog posts:
- Muki Haklay’s personal blog “London Citizen Cyberscience Summit – new collaborations and ideas“
- GridCast blog (including some video interviews)
- Summit speaker Andrea Wiggins’ blog of day 1, day 2 and day 3
- Nicola Triscott from the Arts Catalyst: “Extreme citizen science: rainforests, urban jungles and the arctic perspective“
- Célya Gruson-Daniel, discussion of the summit in French at MyScienceWork
Social media:
- An intricate and detailed collection of the twitter posts, commentary and photos from the first day of the summit
News articles:
- Nature news: “Citizen science goes extreme“.
- New Scientist blog post “Interactive maps help pygmy tribes fight back“
- Le Monde also reports on “Un laboratoire de l’extrême“
- New Scientist post on the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) development of a thermal flashlight in “Thermal flashlight ‘paints’ cold rooms with colour“
- The China Dialogue broad review of the summit “Scientists and Citizens“
Photos:
My Science Work Flikr photo collection
Extreme Citizen Science blog 