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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

“A different perspective” in the Greenspace Information for Greater London (GiGL) online magazine

The following piece was written for the GiGLer, the newsletter of Greenspace information for Greater London (GiGL).  In this (very) … More

biodiversity, Citizen science, Citizen Science Association Conference, citizen science data, Ecological Citizen Science, environmental monitoring, motivation

The Amazon in focus: development challenges and participatory monitoring tools for the rainforest

The past two weeks were extremely busy. Between August 22nd and 24th I attended the Brazilian Studies Association Conference, which … More

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  • Exciting Storytelling May 19, 2022
  • System and Data-Driven Collaboration Framework: A Work in Progress April 24, 2022
  • Crisis Mapping By Affected Agro-Pastoralists in Ethiopia: Crowdsourcing for Food Security?🇪🇹 April 24, 2022
  • HEIDI Citizen Science for All Talks and Training: Our May-June Webinar Calendar April 12, 2022
  • Une journée chez les Baka March 10, 2022
  • The HEIDI project invites you to a month of #CitizenScienceForAllTalks: webinars, training and a roundtable February 23, 2022
  • Daffodils for Data February 8, 2022
  • Mapping the barriers and drivers of digital action within Higher Education Institutions [Project HEIDI] December 20, 2021
  • Recognition of Indigenous People through Sapelli December 9, 2021
  • Land use messaging & mapping for collaborative Climate-smart Agriculture in South West Nigeria: The eCSAgri pilot project July 21, 2021

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