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Pathways on Industry-connected Citizen Engagement

The International Society for Digital Earth 2023 conference was held at Harokopio University in Athens from the 11th to the … More

Citizen science, CSR, ESG, Industry connection, Sustainable development

Intelligent Maps = pixel value + local knowledge

Remote sensing has made huge breakthroughs in recent years in providing global maps of land cover and land use. A … More

Intelligent Maps

Crisis Mapping By Affected Agro-Pastoralists in Ethiopia: Crowdsourcing for Food Security?🇪🇹

In the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia, a food security crisis is unfolding. According to the Famine Early Warning Systems … More

Agro-pastoralists, Crowdsourcing, Digital Earth, Food security, Human-Computer Interaction, ICT4D, Land use, Machine learning, PGIS, Social media, WhatsApp

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

WEBINAR: Whose land? Whose map? Land use mapping by land users in the Digital Earth era.

*Recording and slides are available here. This Webinar is part of the ongoing PhD project titled: Whose land? Whose map? … 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

CITIZEN SCIENCE: BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER

On November 5 2015, a dam situated in the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil) collapsed, spreading millions of litres of … More

ECSAnVis, ERC

Learning DIY glow-worm making

“Learning by teaching”, a reflection on running a DIY Arduino glow-worm-making workshop.

Arduino, art, Citizen science, Community Development, creativity, development, DIY, education, environment, event, hacking, hardware, innovation, Into the Night, open source, Play, research, science, Technology, workshop

Mapping Accessibility with Sapelli

On 19th June the ExCiteS research group and Mapping for Change, teamed up with Dr Catherine Holloway and Sarah Nicholson, … More

accessibility, community mapping, Mapping, Sapellli, wheelchair

Quando i cittadini fanno ricerca

Nel corso degli ultimi anni i cittadini hanno avuto la possibilità di giocare un ruolo prezioso nel contribuire a progetti … More

Citizen science, community science, Italy, scienza partecipata

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  • 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

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