Skip to content
Extreme Citizen Science blog

Extreme Citizen Science blog

UCL's interdisciplinary research group on Extreme Citizen Science

  • Home
  • Articles
  • What is Extreme Citizen Science?
  • Interdisciplinary work
  • Website
  • Twitter

Category: Articles

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

Africa, anthropology, conservation, Sapelli

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

Geokey, Sapelli

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

Extreme Citizen Science, participation, production of knowledge, Sapelli

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

Citizen science, Civic Science, conference, ECSA, science communication

“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

The Citizen Science Translation Hub is live

Two years ago, while working on the Doing It Together Science (DITOs) project, Muki had an idea. Sometimes, citizen science … More

Learn about Extreme Citizen Science from our StoryMap

What if science and society deployed themselves inside one single dynamic adventure?

brazil, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Extreme Citizen Science, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Open Science

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Recent posts

  • IN.FOR.BIO – our new 6-year One Health project December 18, 2025
  • Indigenous floor maps and many names for ice: ICA Vancouver 2025 November 5, 2025
  • Reflections on Urban Gardening Workshop in London’s Chinatown November 16, 2024
  • A desert as a garden: The International Society of Ethnobiology conference in Marrakech, Morocco July 19, 2024
  • WhatsApp Maps? Connecting users and producers of ground information June 26, 2024
  • Pathways on Industry-connected Citizen Engagement September 20, 2023
  • Wisdom of the Crowd in the Age of AI: Water September 3, 2023
  • You are invited to attend – and participate in! – the HEIDI Project’s Final Event on 30th and 31st May May 18, 2023
  • Digital Services at HEIs to Support Digital Action for Social Change – A HEIDI short film May 11, 2023
  • From negative tipping points to positive tipping points January 30, 2023

Categories

  • Activism (8)
  • Agro-pastoralists (2)
  • Amazon (2)
  • anthropology (18)
  • Articles (197)
  • Biodiversity (12)
  • Brazil (4)
  • Cameroon (11)
  • Central African Republic (2)
  • Challenging Citizen Science (3)
  • Citizen cyberscience (5)
  • Citizen Cyberscience around the world (3)
  • Citizen Cyberscience Summit (13)
  • citizen science data (9)
  • Congo (7)
  • Crowdsourcing (3)
  • Cultural Ecosystem Services (6)
  • Digital Earth (3)
  • DIY tools and methodologies (16)
  • East Africa (2)
  • Ecological Citizen Science (7)
  • Ecology (8)
  • Engagement (15)
  • Engagement, motivations and incentives (10)
  • Fieldwork (13)
  • Food security (3)
  • Geographical Citizen Science (2)
  • HCI (1)
  • Human-Computer Interaction (12)
  • ICT4D (3)
  • Indigenous peoples (18)
  • Issues of power (4)
  • Land Administration (1)
  • Land use (2)
  • Learning (19)
  • Machine learning (2)
  • Mapping (18)
  • motivations and incentives (4)
  • Open Science (5)
  • Participatory GIS (4)
  • Reflection on practice (6)
  • Research project (18)
  • Science by Citizens (12)
  • Social events (7)
  • Social media (2)
  • STS (3)
  • Sustainable development goals (3)
  • The art of Citizen Science (1)
  • The Citizens of Citizen Science (3)
  • Webinar (2)
  • WhatsApp (3)
  • Workshops and conferences (31)

Archives

Where are you visiting us from?

Locations of visitors to this page
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Extreme Citizen Science blog
    • Join 140 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Extreme Citizen Science blog
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...