The Extreme Citizen Science in Agriculture project (eCSAgri) was a six months pilot project helping to facilitate collaborative and participatory … More
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Using Sapelli in the Field
After the book Geographic Citizen Science Design: No one left behind (03-2021), the ExCiteS research team announces the publication of … More
Announcing a new project: Digital action at HEIs as a catalyst for social change in the COVID-19 crisis, “HEIDI”
We’re very excited to announce the start of a new ERASMUS+ project, “Digital action at HEIs as a catalyst for … More
“Geographic Citizen Science Design: No one left behind” Book Launch Event
On February 4th 2021, the book “Geographic Citizen Science Design: No one left behind”, edited by Dr Artemis Skarlatidou and Professor … More
Decolonising protected areas: Sapelli in eastern Cameroon
Whilst being initially hesitant to work in this controversial and problematic context, I decided that this was an opportunity to initiate change, whereby the voices and values of the Baka could be taken seriously
Opportunity: Help us develop visualisation software for participatory mapping with indigenous communities!
Over the last ten years, UCL’s Extreme Citizen Science group has developed two main technological infrastructures – Sapelli software to … More
Call for Special Issue on “GeoWeb and GeoMobile Applications for Public Engagement Emerging Trends and Novel Approaches”
A new call for a special issue with the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is out, on the topic of … More
Is Sapelli just a tool?
In a recent interview I conducted with the director of an international NGO here in Cameroon who is familiar with … More
Crowdsourced Blogging on the ECSA 2020 conference
From Monday 7th to Friday 11th September 2020, several of the ExCiteS group attended the ECSA Conference 2020. ECSA is … More
“We are weeping with our knowledge of the forest”
I have been living with the Baka, one of Central Africa’s hunter-gatherer groups, for the last 5 months. As an … More
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