The document discusses open science in Africa and the need for coordination and capacity building. It proposes the creation of an African Open Science Platform to promote open data policies, training, and infrastructure development across the continent. The platform would help African countries develop their ability to manage and utilize scientific data for societal benefit. Several existing collaborative initiatives and networks are mentioned that could help align and strengthen open science efforts in Africa on both a regional and global scale.
Canada is a data and technological society. There is no sector that is uninformed by data or unmediated by code, algorithms, software and infrastructure. Consider the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, and precision agriculture; or smart fisheries, forestry, and energy and of course governing. In a data based and technological society, leadership is the responsibility of all citizens, a parent, teacher, scholar, administrator, public servant, nurse and doctor, mayor and councillor, fisher, builder, business person, industrialist, MP, MLA, PM, and so on. In other words leadership is distributed and requires people power. This form of citizenship, according to Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, requires agency, knowledge and the capacity to act or power. In this GovMaker Keynote I will introduce the concept of technological citizenship, I will discuss what principled public interest governing might look like, and how we might go about critically applying philosophy in our daily practice. In terms of practice I will discuss innovative policy and regulation such as the right to repair movement, EU legislation such as the right to explanation, data subjects and the right to access and also data sovereignty from a globalization and an indigenous perspective.
Paper from the Programmable City workshop data and the city. See more details on my blog at http://wp.me/p7DNf-sX for description of the workshop. The paper explores the link between citizen science and philosophy of technology
Extreme Citizen Science: the socio-political potential of citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Slides from a talk at the International Congress for Conservation Biology / European Congress for Conservation Biology 2015 (Montpellier 2-6 August). The talk positioned citizen science within the wider context of production and use of environmental information, and emphasised the need to extend citizen science to a wider audience. It also demonstrated how technology can be used within a careful participatory process.
The changing role of the IT leader - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
The higher education IT enterprise has become complex. The IT department is no longer simply responsible for provisioning IT infrastructure and services, but increasingly helps to re-envision business and service models—all in a context of cost and accountability pressures.
IT is simultaneously more challenging, relevant, and exciting than ever; leading IT requires unique characteristics and capabilities.
Authors:
Tracey P. Lauriault, Programmable City Project, Maynooth University
Peter Mooney, Environmental Protection Agency Ireland and Department of Computer Science Maynooth University
Title:
Crowdsourcing: A Geographic Approach to Identifying Policy Opportunities and Challenges Toward Deeper Levels of Public Engagement
Presented:
The Internet, Policy and Politics Conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 25-26, 2014
See the abstract here:
http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2014/programme-2014/track-c-politics-of-engagement/community/tracey-p-lauriault-peter-mooney
Experiences as a producer, consumer and observer of open dataProgCity
Peter Mooney, is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth. He has been working with the EPA on making environmental data publicly accessibly for the last ten years.
Presentation was part of The 1st Seminar of the ERC Funded Programmable City Project based at NIRSA, NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland.
A talk exploring the different ways to analyse the policy aspects of citizen science, especially from the persepctive of environmental protection agencies in Europe. More information at http://wp.me/p7DNf-mE
Canada is a data and technological society. There is no sector that is uninformed by data or unmediated by code, algorithms, software and infrastructure. Consider the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, and precision agriculture; or smart fisheries, forestry, and energy and of course governing. In a data based and technological society, leadership is the responsibility of all citizens, a parent, teacher, scholar, administrator, public servant, nurse and doctor, mayor and councillor, fisher, builder, business person, industrialist, MP, MLA, PM, and so on. In other words leadership is distributed and requires people power. This form of citizenship, according to Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, requires agency, knowledge and the capacity to act or power. In this GovMaker Keynote I will introduce the concept of technological citizenship, I will discuss what principled public interest governing might look like, and how we might go about critically applying philosophy in our daily practice. In terms of practice I will discuss innovative policy and regulation such as the right to repair movement, EU legislation such as the right to explanation, data subjects and the right to access and also data sovereignty from a globalization and an indigenous perspective.
Paper from the Programmable City workshop data and the city. See more details on my blog at http://wp.me/p7DNf-sX for description of the workshop. The paper explores the link between citizen science and philosophy of technology
Extreme Citizen Science: the socio-political potential of citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Slides from a talk at the International Congress for Conservation Biology / European Congress for Conservation Biology 2015 (Montpellier 2-6 August). The talk positioned citizen science within the wider context of production and use of environmental information, and emphasised the need to extend citizen science to a wider audience. It also demonstrated how technology can be used within a careful participatory process.
The changing role of the IT leader - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
The higher education IT enterprise has become complex. The IT department is no longer simply responsible for provisioning IT infrastructure and services, but increasingly helps to re-envision business and service models—all in a context of cost and accountability pressures.
IT is simultaneously more challenging, relevant, and exciting than ever; leading IT requires unique characteristics and capabilities.
Authors:
Tracey P. Lauriault, Programmable City Project, Maynooth University
Peter Mooney, Environmental Protection Agency Ireland and Department of Computer Science Maynooth University
Title:
Crowdsourcing: A Geographic Approach to Identifying Policy Opportunities and Challenges Toward Deeper Levels of Public Engagement
Presented:
The Internet, Policy and Politics Conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 25-26, 2014
See the abstract here:
http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2014/programme-2014/track-c-politics-of-engagement/community/tracey-p-lauriault-peter-mooney
Experiences as a producer, consumer and observer of open dataProgCity
Peter Mooney, is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth. He has been working with the EPA on making environmental data publicly accessibly for the last ten years.
Presentation was part of The 1st Seminar of the ERC Funded Programmable City Project based at NIRSA, NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland.
A talk exploring the different ways to analyse the policy aspects of citizen science, especially from the persepctive of environmental protection agencies in Europe. More information at http://wp.me/p7DNf-mE
Extreme Citizen Science: Current Development Muki Haklay
Slides from a talk to UCL Institute of Global Prosperity soundbites event - 5th November 2015.
With a growing emphasis on civil society-led change in diverse disciplines, from International Development to Town Planning, there is an increasing demand to understand how institutions might work with the public effectively and fairly.
Extreme Citizen Science is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world.
In this talk, Muki will discuss the work of UCL Extreme Citizen Science group within the wider context of the developments in the field of citizen science.He will cover the work that ExCiteS has already done, currently developing and plans for the future.
https://www.igp.ucl.ac.uk/igp-events-pub/muki-haklay-extreme-citizen-science
What happens when instead of asking the crowd for help, the question of what is explored is handed over to the participants?
The potential of bottom-up citizen science has increased dramatically in the past decade. To understand this, we can look at the societal and technological changes that led to this proliferation, and then explore the challenges, risks and opportunities that this approach presents.
This seminar will also be live webcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqY8Jv5r4bs
Into the Night - Technology for citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Current citizen science seems effortless...just download an app and start using it. However, there are many technical aspects that are necessary to make a citizen science project work. In this session, we will provide an overview of all the technical elements that are required - from the process of designing an app., to designing and managing a back-end system, to testing the system end to end before deployment. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a short exercise to consider the design of an app for a citizen science project that addresses light pollution.
Taking Citizen Science to Extremes: from the Arctic to the Rainforestmichalis_vitos
Citizen Science is hardly a new concept, but during the last decade it has seen a rise in both
academic and popular interest for the topic. This trend is in part driven by an increased
interest for open paradigms, as well as, Information Communication Technology (ICT)
innovations such as smartphones, mobile Internet and cloud computing. This has given
rise to the emergence of a growing and highly diverse crop of new – and often innovative –
initiatives that are being, or could be, labelled as Citizen Science.
Whilst there are often big differences between projects, for instance when it comes to
power relations – “Who is working for who?” – or the determination of goals and outcomes
– “Who is solving whose problems?” – there is hope that, at the very least, this rediscovery
of citizen science might lead to a renewed mutual interest, and perhaps understanding,
between scientists and the general public.
Most citizen science initiatives are set in affluent areas of the world, and by and large they
target an educated, or at least literate, public. Extreme Citizen Science aspires to extend the
reach and potential of citizen science beyond this restricted context and is defined as:
Extreme Citizen Science is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local
needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build
new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world.
In this presentation, we are going to explore the various ExCiteS projects that span from the
Arctic – where we aim to develop tools grounded in the needs of Yupik and Iñupiaq coastal
subsistence hunters who are adapting to the rapidly changing climate – to the Congo basin
rainforest – where we enable marginalised and forest communities to better to share their
vast environmental knowledge more effectively locally and with other regional, national and
global stakeholders.
We aim to design, develop, evaluate and deploy a generic platform that enables people with
no or limited literacy – in the strict and broader technological sense – to use smartphones
and tablets to collect, share, and analyse (spatial) data along with a methodology for
introducing, engaging and empowering marginalised communities to participate in and
benefit from citizen science. The platform is and will be used in a variety of concrete
projects, often related to environmental monitoring. Ultimately the goal is to let
communities build so-called Community Memories: evolving, shared representations of the
state of their environment, their relationship with it, and any threats it faces.
From crowdsourced geographic information to participatory citizen science - e...Muki Haklay
Slides from presentation at Leicester Geography seminar March 2014, which is based on earlier discussion in a 'thinking and doing digital mapping' workshop in June 2013 in http://blog.digitalcartography.eu/2013/03/26/june-workshop-thinking-and-doing-digital-mapping/ as part of Charting the Digital project http://digitalcartography.eu/
The presentation discusses Volunteered Geographic Information (crowdsourced information) and Citizen Science, using the philosophy of technology of Albert Borgmann.
Citizen science - theory, practice & policy workshopMuki Haklay
These slides are from a 3.5h workshop, as part of the Israeli Geographical Association, Jerusalem, 14 Dec 2015. The workshop provided knowledge of the field of citizen science and current trends that influence it; Helped participants to understand the principles and practical aspects of designing a citizen science project; Included a session with hands-on experience of citizen science activity; Learn about additional resources that can be used to design and run citizen science projects; Understand the policy trends that are influencing the field.
Many of the slides are from previous talks with organisation and ordered in a way that they are suitable for the workshop
OKCon 2008 - Lessons from Environmental informationMuki Haklay
The presentation covers several areas of open information and access to environmental information, starting with a short overview of the background, followed by some examples of environmental information over the internet from the past 14 years, then a few examples of recent development, and a discussion of the work that we’ve been carrying out at UCL recently. Finally, there are observations on access to information in the environmental field .
Extreme Citizen Science technologies: attempting to embed values in codeMuki Haklay
Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world. The ExCiteS group at UCL was set up to support the implementation of this concept through the development of theories, methodologies, processes, and technologies that allow any community, regardless of (technical) literacy, to engage in citizen science projects that produce results that are meaningful and useful for them. Stemming from theoretical foundations in participatory action research and public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), our technologies are designed to carry values with them. Once we visit these values, we can see how they turn into code, and ask how successful these efforts are, using cases in the Amazon, Congo-basin, Namibia, UK, and Malta.
Digital Transformations: keynote talk to Listening Experience Database Sympos...Andrew Prescott
Discussion of AHRC Digital Transformations theme, followed by discussion of nature of digital disruption and change. Examples of transformative projects involving use of sound, as part of symposium organised by the Listening Experience Database: http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk
The talk will cover the concepts behing COST Action IC1203 - a European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and methodologies for harnessing geographic information from the crowd (ENERGIC). The network emerged from the realisation that new and unprecedented sources of geographic information have recently become available in the form of user-generated Web content. The integration and application of these sources, often termed volunteered geographic information (VGI), offers multidisciplinary scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The Action targets fundamental scientific and technological advances by establishing a European network of excellence on Geoweb technologies. The Action focus on VGI and gather efforts carried out in an innovative and under-exploited field of Web research and knowledge production.
In the talk special attention will be paid to the differences between OSM, VGI and Citizen Science, and suggesting 'code of engagement' with OpenStreetMap that are relevant to many other volunteering projects
Slides from my talk in the European Citizen Science Conference in Berlin, May 2016. The talk look at issues of participation, citizen science and open science, and a bit about implications. It's about participation inequality and educational attainment of participants
What is Extreme Citizen Science? Volunteerism & Publicly Initiated Scientific...Cindy Regalado
This presentation briefly illustrates the state of citizen science our approach in Extreme Citizen Science. We present two examples under this research group at University College London: Publicly Initiated Scientific Research and the Socio-demographics of Volunteerism
Citizen Science in Open Science context: measuring & understanding impacts of...Muki Haklay
Within the emerging European agenda for open science, deeper public engagement with science, through citizen science, is now part and parcel of Horizon Europe. Yet, there are many issues that need to be understood – the uneven landscape of citizen science across the European Research Area, scientific disciplines, and institutions; the balancing of multiple goals that citizen science projects enact between raising awareness to scientific issues to producing data and analysis that can lead to top discoveries; measuring and assessing the outcomes and outputs of projects; and consideration about the data, analysis, and outputs. The talk will provide a short introduction to citizen science and modes of engagement in it, introduce the “Doing It Together Science” (DITOs) escalator model; and review some of the emerging policy responses to citizen science across the world.
Haw GIScience lost its interdisciplinary mojo?Muki Haklay
These are the slides from my talk at the GISCience 2016 conference. There is more information on my blog, but the abstract is:
Over the past 25 years, I have experienced an inside track view of two interdisciplinary research fields: Geographical Information Science (GIScience) and Citizen Science. Over that period, I was also involved in about 20 multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary projects. As a result, I also found myself evaluating and funding x-disciplinary projects.
On the basis of these experiences, I’d argue that Interdisciplinarity is always hard, risky, require compromises, accommodations, listening, and making mistakes. The excitement from the outputs and outcomes does not always justify the price. Frequently, there is no-follow on project – it’s been too exhausting.
Considering the project level challenges, viewing interdisciplinary areas of studies emerging is especially interesting. You can notice how concepts are being argued and agreed on. You can see what is inside and what is outside, and where the boundary is drawn. You can see how methodologies, jargon, acceptable behaviour, and modes of operations get accepted or rejected – and from the inside, you can nudge the field and sometimes see the impact of your actions.
GIScience was born as an interdisciplinary field of study, and the period of consolidation that I have seen was supposed to lead to stability and growth. This did not happen. Take any measure that you like: size of conferences, papers – or even the argument if the field deserve a Wikipedia page. Something didn’t work.
In contrast, Citizen Science is already attracting to its conferences audience in the many hundreds – the Citizen Science Association include 4000 (free) members, The European Citizen Science Association 180 (paid) – and that is in the first 2 years since they’ve established.
In the talk, I explore the way in which interdisciplinary projects and fields work, highlight the similarities and differences, and suggest the issues that have led to the outcomes that we see today
The Perfect Storm: Understanding the Changing Face of Technology in Higher Ed...Martin Hamilton
With the growing ubiquity of the Internet and its attendant culture of openness and sharing, profound changes have been taking place in teaching and learning. These changes have been compounded by the technological shift from “enterprise” to the consumer as the key force driving technical innovation.
Consider the following questions, which many institutions are currently wrestling with as they review their strategic direction:
What will the world of educational technology look like in a few years’ time if Microsoft are a niche supplier and Google, Amazon and Apple are the key players in the IT industry?
What new opportunities are created when you open up not just educational resources, but also research and institutional data, journal publications and underlying software?
How do we prepare for a world where BYOD, MOOCs and the flipped classroom are the norm, the number of HEIs is greatly reduced, and the very nature of the HEI as a concept has changed beyond recognition?
In this session Martin Hamilton will take the group though some recent developments from Loughborough University that may help to inform institutional thinking.
Extreme Citizen Science: Current Development Muki Haklay
Slides from a talk to UCL Institute of Global Prosperity soundbites event - 5th November 2015.
With a growing emphasis on civil society-led change in diverse disciplines, from International Development to Town Planning, there is an increasing demand to understand how institutions might work with the public effectively and fairly.
Extreme Citizen Science is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world.
In this talk, Muki will discuss the work of UCL Extreme Citizen Science group within the wider context of the developments in the field of citizen science.He will cover the work that ExCiteS has already done, currently developing and plans for the future.
https://www.igp.ucl.ac.uk/igp-events-pub/muki-haklay-extreme-citizen-science
What happens when instead of asking the crowd for help, the question of what is explored is handed over to the participants?
The potential of bottom-up citizen science has increased dramatically in the past decade. To understand this, we can look at the societal and technological changes that led to this proliferation, and then explore the challenges, risks and opportunities that this approach presents.
This seminar will also be live webcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqY8Jv5r4bs
Into the Night - Technology for citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Current citizen science seems effortless...just download an app and start using it. However, there are many technical aspects that are necessary to make a citizen science project work. In this session, we will provide an overview of all the technical elements that are required - from the process of designing an app., to designing and managing a back-end system, to testing the system end to end before deployment. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a short exercise to consider the design of an app for a citizen science project that addresses light pollution.
Taking Citizen Science to Extremes: from the Arctic to the Rainforestmichalis_vitos
Citizen Science is hardly a new concept, but during the last decade it has seen a rise in both
academic and popular interest for the topic. This trend is in part driven by an increased
interest for open paradigms, as well as, Information Communication Technology (ICT)
innovations such as smartphones, mobile Internet and cloud computing. This has given
rise to the emergence of a growing and highly diverse crop of new – and often innovative –
initiatives that are being, or could be, labelled as Citizen Science.
Whilst there are often big differences between projects, for instance when it comes to
power relations – “Who is working for who?” – or the determination of goals and outcomes
– “Who is solving whose problems?” – there is hope that, at the very least, this rediscovery
of citizen science might lead to a renewed mutual interest, and perhaps understanding,
between scientists and the general public.
Most citizen science initiatives are set in affluent areas of the world, and by and large they
target an educated, or at least literate, public. Extreme Citizen Science aspires to extend the
reach and potential of citizen science beyond this restricted context and is defined as:
Extreme Citizen Science is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local
needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build
new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world.
In this presentation, we are going to explore the various ExCiteS projects that span from the
Arctic – where we aim to develop tools grounded in the needs of Yupik and Iñupiaq coastal
subsistence hunters who are adapting to the rapidly changing climate – to the Congo basin
rainforest – where we enable marginalised and forest communities to better to share their
vast environmental knowledge more effectively locally and with other regional, national and
global stakeholders.
We aim to design, develop, evaluate and deploy a generic platform that enables people with
no or limited literacy – in the strict and broader technological sense – to use smartphones
and tablets to collect, share, and analyse (spatial) data along with a methodology for
introducing, engaging and empowering marginalised communities to participate in and
benefit from citizen science. The platform is and will be used in a variety of concrete
projects, often related to environmental monitoring. Ultimately the goal is to let
communities build so-called Community Memories: evolving, shared representations of the
state of their environment, their relationship with it, and any threats it faces.
From crowdsourced geographic information to participatory citizen science - e...Muki Haklay
Slides from presentation at Leicester Geography seminar March 2014, which is based on earlier discussion in a 'thinking and doing digital mapping' workshop in June 2013 in http://blog.digitalcartography.eu/2013/03/26/june-workshop-thinking-and-doing-digital-mapping/ as part of Charting the Digital project http://digitalcartography.eu/
The presentation discusses Volunteered Geographic Information (crowdsourced information) and Citizen Science, using the philosophy of technology of Albert Borgmann.
Citizen science - theory, practice & policy workshopMuki Haklay
These slides are from a 3.5h workshop, as part of the Israeli Geographical Association, Jerusalem, 14 Dec 2015. The workshop provided knowledge of the field of citizen science and current trends that influence it; Helped participants to understand the principles and practical aspects of designing a citizen science project; Included a session with hands-on experience of citizen science activity; Learn about additional resources that can be used to design and run citizen science projects; Understand the policy trends that are influencing the field.
Many of the slides are from previous talks with organisation and ordered in a way that they are suitable for the workshop
OKCon 2008 - Lessons from Environmental informationMuki Haklay
The presentation covers several areas of open information and access to environmental information, starting with a short overview of the background, followed by some examples of environmental information over the internet from the past 14 years, then a few examples of recent development, and a discussion of the work that we’ve been carrying out at UCL recently. Finally, there are observations on access to information in the environmental field .
Extreme Citizen Science technologies: attempting to embed values in codeMuki Haklay
Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world. The ExCiteS group at UCL was set up to support the implementation of this concept through the development of theories, methodologies, processes, and technologies that allow any community, regardless of (technical) literacy, to engage in citizen science projects that produce results that are meaningful and useful for them. Stemming from theoretical foundations in participatory action research and public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), our technologies are designed to carry values with them. Once we visit these values, we can see how they turn into code, and ask how successful these efforts are, using cases in the Amazon, Congo-basin, Namibia, UK, and Malta.
Digital Transformations: keynote talk to Listening Experience Database Sympos...Andrew Prescott
Discussion of AHRC Digital Transformations theme, followed by discussion of nature of digital disruption and change. Examples of transformative projects involving use of sound, as part of symposium organised by the Listening Experience Database: http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk
The talk will cover the concepts behing COST Action IC1203 - a European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and methodologies for harnessing geographic information from the crowd (ENERGIC). The network emerged from the realisation that new and unprecedented sources of geographic information have recently become available in the form of user-generated Web content. The integration and application of these sources, often termed volunteered geographic information (VGI), offers multidisciplinary scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The Action targets fundamental scientific and technological advances by establishing a European network of excellence on Geoweb technologies. The Action focus on VGI and gather efforts carried out in an innovative and under-exploited field of Web research and knowledge production.
In the talk special attention will be paid to the differences between OSM, VGI and Citizen Science, and suggesting 'code of engagement' with OpenStreetMap that are relevant to many other volunteering projects
Slides from my talk in the European Citizen Science Conference in Berlin, May 2016. The talk look at issues of participation, citizen science and open science, and a bit about implications. It's about participation inequality and educational attainment of participants
What is Extreme Citizen Science? Volunteerism & Publicly Initiated Scientific...Cindy Regalado
This presentation briefly illustrates the state of citizen science our approach in Extreme Citizen Science. We present two examples under this research group at University College London: Publicly Initiated Scientific Research and the Socio-demographics of Volunteerism
Citizen Science in Open Science context: measuring & understanding impacts of...Muki Haklay
Within the emerging European agenda for open science, deeper public engagement with science, through citizen science, is now part and parcel of Horizon Europe. Yet, there are many issues that need to be understood – the uneven landscape of citizen science across the European Research Area, scientific disciplines, and institutions; the balancing of multiple goals that citizen science projects enact between raising awareness to scientific issues to producing data and analysis that can lead to top discoveries; measuring and assessing the outcomes and outputs of projects; and consideration about the data, analysis, and outputs. The talk will provide a short introduction to citizen science and modes of engagement in it, introduce the “Doing It Together Science” (DITOs) escalator model; and review some of the emerging policy responses to citizen science across the world.
Haw GIScience lost its interdisciplinary mojo?Muki Haklay
These are the slides from my talk at the GISCience 2016 conference. There is more information on my blog, but the abstract is:
Over the past 25 years, I have experienced an inside track view of two interdisciplinary research fields: Geographical Information Science (GIScience) and Citizen Science. Over that period, I was also involved in about 20 multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary projects. As a result, I also found myself evaluating and funding x-disciplinary projects.
On the basis of these experiences, I’d argue that Interdisciplinarity is always hard, risky, require compromises, accommodations, listening, and making mistakes. The excitement from the outputs and outcomes does not always justify the price. Frequently, there is no-follow on project – it’s been too exhausting.
Considering the project level challenges, viewing interdisciplinary areas of studies emerging is especially interesting. You can notice how concepts are being argued and agreed on. You can see what is inside and what is outside, and where the boundary is drawn. You can see how methodologies, jargon, acceptable behaviour, and modes of operations get accepted or rejected – and from the inside, you can nudge the field and sometimes see the impact of your actions.
GIScience was born as an interdisciplinary field of study, and the period of consolidation that I have seen was supposed to lead to stability and growth. This did not happen. Take any measure that you like: size of conferences, papers – or even the argument if the field deserve a Wikipedia page. Something didn’t work.
In contrast, Citizen Science is already attracting to its conferences audience in the many hundreds – the Citizen Science Association include 4000 (free) members, The European Citizen Science Association 180 (paid) – and that is in the first 2 years since they’ve established.
In the talk, I explore the way in which interdisciplinary projects and fields work, highlight the similarities and differences, and suggest the issues that have led to the outcomes that we see today
The Perfect Storm: Understanding the Changing Face of Technology in Higher Ed...Martin Hamilton
With the growing ubiquity of the Internet and its attendant culture of openness and sharing, profound changes have been taking place in teaching and learning. These changes have been compounded by the technological shift from “enterprise” to the consumer as the key force driving technical innovation.
Consider the following questions, which many institutions are currently wrestling with as they review their strategic direction:
What will the world of educational technology look like in a few years’ time if Microsoft are a niche supplier and Google, Amazon and Apple are the key players in the IT industry?
What new opportunities are created when you open up not just educational resources, but also research and institutional data, journal publications and underlying software?
How do we prepare for a world where BYOD, MOOCs and the flipped classroom are the norm, the number of HEIs is greatly reduced, and the very nature of the HEI as a concept has changed beyond recognition?
In this session Martin Hamilton will take the group though some recent developments from Loughborough University that may help to inform institutional thinking.
Presented at a NeDICC (Network of Data and Information Curation Communities) meeting, 14 March 2019, CSIR, and at the University of Pretoria and the Carnegie Corporation of New York Capstone Conference, 24-29 March 2019, Kieviets Kroon.
Presentation during the 14th Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference and African Open Science Platform (AOSP)/Research Data Alliance (RDA) Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-8 June 2017.
Jarkko Siren is Project Officer in DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission.
Jarkko's presentation gives an introduction to public engagement in research at the European Commission
Crossing the digital flow - higher education for the sustainable future we wanticdeslides
This story was presented and discussed with university leaders at the International Association for Universities´ Conference in Bangkok. After having introduced technologies relevant for education that are flowing into society, their opportunities and challenges, this presentation discuss trends in the era of digitalisation and how to meet with them, in particular trens in online, open and flexible higher education. A stepwise approach together with knowledge sharing and peer learning is advised.
The dramatic situation, in particular for developing countries regarding the Sustainable Development Goal for Education 2030 is discussed calling for a fundamental new responser on education as a public good. Quality, Collaboration and Take Leadership are the three messages from this story.
Presentation on behalf of the SA Weather Service presented during SA National Science Week - The harsh realities of climate change, 29 July to 2 August 2019.
Presented on 30 August 2018: Deployment of Open Data Driven Solutions for Socio-economic Value thorough Good Governance and Efficient Public Service Delivery -
Explore our comprehensive data analysis project presentation on predicting product ad campaign performance. Learn how data-driven insights can optimize your marketing strategies and enhance campaign effectiveness. Perfect for professionals and students looking to understand the power of data analysis in advertising. for more details visit: https://bostoninstituteofanalytics.org/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence/
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
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8. Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Before: Steam & Water, Electricity &
assembly lines, Computerization
• Current and developing environment in
which disruptive technologies and trends
such as the Internet of Things, robotics,
virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence
(AI) are changing the way we live and
work
• Smart technologies to allow machines to
interact, visualise production chain, make
autonomous decisions
8
9. • What is the 4th Industrial Revolution?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co
ntinue=5&v=kpW9JcWxKq0
• Integration between natural & artificial –
become more efficient
9
10. • ”It is characterized by a fusion of
technologies that is blurring the lines
between the physical, digital, and
biological spheres.”
• “Constant connection may deprive us of
one of life’s most important assets: the time
to pause, reflect, and engage in
meaningful conversation.”
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-
revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond
10
13. • Risks & opportunities:
“decision-makers are too often caught in
traditional, linear (and non-disruptive)
thinking or too absorbed by immediate
concerns to think strategically about the
forces of disruption and innovation shaping
our future.“
- Prof Klaus Schwab, Founder & CEO of World Economic Forum
13
14. National Development Plan
• “… offers a long-term perspective. It defines a
desired destination and identifies the role different
sectors of society need to play in reaching that
goal …”
• “ …. aims to eliminate poverty and reduce
inequality by 2030. According to the plan, South
Africa can realise these goals by drawing on the
energies of its people, growing an inclusive
economy, building capabilities, enhancing the
capacity of the state, and promoting leadership
and partnerships throughout society.”
15. The high domestic cost of
broadband internet connectivity is
a major hindrance. All South
Africans should be able to acquire
and use knowledge effectively.
Make high-speed broadband
internet universally available at
competitive prices.
16. Which of your tasks as a librarian in your
library will never be replaced by AI, VR,
robots?
16
18. 18
“The spread of information and
communications technology and global
interconnectedness has great potential to
accelerate human progress, to bridge the
digital divide and to develop knowledge
societies, as does scientific and
technological innovation across areas as
diverse as medicine and energy.”
Transforming our world: the UN2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development -
32. Fake Data, Fake Research
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39357819
33.
34.
35. 35
“Replications of 21 high-profile social science findings
demonstrate challenges for reproducibility and suggest
solutions to improve research credibility. Eight of the 21
studies failed to find significant evidence for the original
finding, and the replication effect sizes were about 50%
smaller than the original studies.”
https://cos.io/about/news/do-social-science-
research-findings-published-nature-and-science-
replicate/
36. Data bring Power, but also Responsibility
36
Endangered species
Classifying data to keep
poachers, enthusiasts who
might use information to
track & disturb creatures.
BUT
Declassifying data led to
discovery of at least three
new populations.
Pezoporus occidentalis
42. Intellectual Property Rights Policy
“In many African countries,
intellectual property protection
is undeveloped, ineffective,
expensive and unenforced and
in some African countries there
exists uncertainty on protection
of IP and the threat of
innovation being stolen away
from inventors.”
https://ipstrategy.com/2016/12/05/a-new-look-at-intellectual-property-
and-innovation-in-africa/
43. Early years: Awarded to individual researchers
Recently: Researchers working together/ who
collaborate
45. Open Science Defined
“Open Science is the practice of science in
such a way that others can collaborate and
contribute, where research data, lab notes
and other research processes are freely
available, under terms that enable reuse,
redistribution and reproduction of the
research and its underlying data and
methods.” - FOSTER Project, funded by the European
Commission
46. But Open Science is more than just process - it is
also about collaboration, and strong
engagement with and participation of wider
society, of which citizen science is also a
component. It is a vital enabler in maintaining
the rigour and reliability of science; in creatively
integrating diverse data resources to address
complex modern challenges; in open
innovation and in engaging with other societal
actors as knowledge partners in tackling shared
problems. It is fundamental to realisation of the
Sustainable Development Goals.
54. Original Research Data Lifecycle image from University of California, Santa Cruz
http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/datamanagement/
Repositories
Repositories
Tools
Gold/Green OA
Plan
Policy&Infrastructure
55. Benefits of Open Data
• Improve efficiency in science
• Reduce duplication and the costs of creating,
transferring and re-using data
• Enable more research on the same data
• Multiply opportunities for domestic and global
participation in the research process
56. • Increase transparency and quality in the
research validation process
• Allow greater replication and validation of
scientific results
57. • Speed the transfer of knowledge
• Reduce delays in the re-use of the results of
scientific research, including articles and data
sets
• Promote swifter development from research to
innovation
58. • Increase knowledge spill-overs to the
economy
• Increased access to the results of publicly
funded research can foster spill-overs and
boost innovation across the economy
• Increase awareness and conscious choices
among consumers
59. • Promote citizens’ engagement in science
and research
• Open Science and Open Data initiatives may
promote awareness and trust in science
among citizens
• In some cases, greater citizen engagement
may lead to active participation in scientific
experiments and data collection
60. • Address global challenges more
effectively
• Global challenges require coordinated
international actions
• Open Science and Open Data can promote
collaborative efforts and faster knowledge
transfer for a better understanding of
challenges such as climate change, and could
help identify solutions
61. “Several open science activities are
underway across Africa, but a great deal
will be gained if, in the context of
developing inter-regional links, these
activities were to be coordinated and
developed through such a coordinating
initiative.” - CODATA
62. Collaboration
• Strength in collaboration
• Disciplines group themselves together
• Without collaboration, competition will
continue
• Diversity & pooling knowledge together
help to accelerate discoveries
64. Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
Ghana, Zambia, Madagascar, Botswana,
Namibia, Kenya, Mauritius and
Mozambique
65. Testing Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity; imaging neutral
hydrogen—the building blocks for stars – in the distant universe; and
examining galaxies that were formed billions of years ago
“Construction of the SKA is due to begin in 2018 and finish sometime
in the middle of the next decade.
Data acquisition will begin in 2020, requiring a level of processing
power and data management know-how that outstretches current
capabilities.
Astronomers estimate that the project will generate 35,000-DVDs-
worth of data every second. This is equivalent to “the whole world
wide web every day,” said Fanaroff.”
66.
67. SKA Benefitting the Community
67
“R3 million has been spent
on catering and a further
R4 million on transport in
the area since
construction began in
2012.
One hundred and seven
locals have been
employed by the South
African Astronomical
Observatory between
2015 and 2017.”
68. SKA Benefitting South Africans
SKA SA Managing Director Rob Adam
said, “We have electricians being trained,
boilermakers, fitters and turners and people
splashing the fibre that carries the signal
from the satellites through the computers,
that fibre is being splashed by people from
the local community.”
70. SKA Benefitting Africa
The SKA project will also transfer skills and
knowledge to African countries, which will
build, maintain, operate and use radio
telescopes.
It’s hoped the program will bring new
science opportunities to Africa in a relatively
short timescale and develop radio
astronomy science communities in SKA
partner countries.
71. 71
“These measurements
can provide cities with
new neighborhood-level
insights to help cities
accelerate efforts in
their transition to
smarter, healthier cities.
Data will be publicly
available on Google
BigQuery while full
datasets will be given to
science and academic
communities, according
to Google.”
72. 72
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) can analyse immense amounts of
data to help us better study, diagnose, treat and even prevent
disease.”
73. Data Democratising Agriculture
73
“ … while the big players
are operating using data,
the small holder farmers
are operating blindly
because they have no
access to key information
on how to farm.”
74. African Open Science Platform
74
http://africanopenscience.org.za/
Hosted by DIRISA
african-open-science-
platform@googlegroups.com
https://www.facebook.com/
AfricanOpenSciencePlatform/
@aosp_africa
75. 75
Launched during SFSA 2016
“The creation of the African Open
Science Platform is
an excellent example of the
tangible impact our Science Forum
has already achieved in harnessing
international partnerships to
advance African
science. The Platform will play a
critical role to assist African
countries in developing the
necessary capacities to
manage and exploit scientific data
for the benefit of society. I am
proud that our Department, and
its entities the NRF and ASSAf,
are contributing to this crucial
mission.”
Former Minister of Science and Technology,
Ms Naledi Pandor
76. Outcome of International Accord
76
• Values of open data in
emerging scientific
culture of big data
• Need for an international
framework
• Proposes comprehensive
set of principles
• FAIR Principles
• Provides framework &
plan for African data
science capacity
mobilization initiative
• Proposes African Platform
International Science Council - CODATA
77. Draft SA White Paper on STI, 2018
77
“As part of its commitment to African
STI cooperation, South Africa will also
work to advance the open science
agenda elsewhere on the continent
and within regional frameworks. The
strategic role of the African Open
Science Platform, hosted by the
Academy of Science of South Africa,
which promotes African-wide
development and coordination of data
policies, data training and data
infrastructure, will be leveraged with
the support of the DST and the National
Research Foundation (NRF). In
addition, South Africa is one of the
founding members of the global Open
Government Partnership (OECD) ….”Input by 18 October 2018
80. • Global Network of Science
Academies (IAP)
• International Science
Council(ISC)
• Regional Office for Africa
(ROA)
• Committee on Data for
Science and Technology
(CODATA)
• World Data System (WDS)
• The World Academy of Sciences
(TWAS)
• Research Data Alliance (RDA)
• National Academy of Sciences
(NAS)
• InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)
• African Union/Pan-African
Parliament (PAP)
• World Intellectual Property
Organisation (WIPO)
80
Partnerships & Stakeholders
• African Union/NEPAD
• Association of African
Universities (AAU)
• Network of African
Science Academies
(NASAC)
• African Academy of
Sciences (AAS)
• African Research Councils
(incl. DIRISA, funders)
• African Universities
• African Governments
• NRENs (Internet Service
Providers for Education)
• Other
82. Only one data repository in Africa has CoreTrustSeal
Location of repositories having acquired CoreTrustSeal (accessed September 2018)
Trusted Data Repositories
82
83.
84.
85. Cloud Computing & Networked Services
37 countries connected
Level 4 NRENs: HPC, data
repositories, data ecosystem
(identifiers, metadata),
collaborative environments
and analysis tools, platform
approaches and provision of
software/tools/etc
85
ASREN
WACREN
UbuntuNet
AfricaConnect2 coordinated regions (accessed Sept. 2018)
86. Cloud Computing & Networked Services
86
High Performance Computing in Tanzania, Kenya,
Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa,
Zambia, Zimbabwe
92. UN Key Message
Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development,
Dakar, May 2018
UN: Economic Commission for Africa
“79. The creation of an African platform for research
and innovation exchange will enable the
dissemination of goal-relevant African research and
innovation to governments and citizens. It could
form the basis for linking researchers and innovators
with the funding required to scale up their work. The
proposed platform would showcase and share
Africa’s efforts to develop goal-relevant research
and innovation and could be coordinated with the
Global Innovation Exchange.”
92
93. 93
“For [a country] to be competitive, it is
important that it keeps up with the global
trends in the provision of modern LIS that
exploit all the benefits of ICTs.
The LIS sector’s capacity to contribute to the
nation’s ability to convert knowledge into
innovations and wealth will determine its
value to the nation.”
- LIS Transformation Charter (2014) -