What is the role of crowdsourcing in EO? When does it make sense? What are the mistakes to avoid?
[presentation given at the EU workshop on research and innovation in support of the Earth Observation market
2. Outline
• What is the role of crowdsourcing in EO?
• Where does it fit into EO frameworks?
• Why do people want to crowdsource?
• When does crowdsourcing make sense?
• And what are the benefits and impacts?
• How (NOT) to blow up your EO crowdsourcing
campaign
13. • The largest citizen science platform
• 1+M contributors
• 25 live projects spanning astrophysics, zoology,
biology, medicine, climate science, and the humanities
• Many of them about image annotation
29. –NESTA, Connected Councils: A digital vision of local
government in 2025
“Resist the temptation to build an app.”
30. The sad reality about apps
1. Convincing users to install an app is hard
2. Convincing users to sign up for an app is very
hard
3. Convincing users to keep on using an app is
impossible
31. Take home #2: Go where the
users are (social networks,
whatsapp, web etc.)
40. CITI-SENSE
FP7 project on Citizens’ Observatories
Focus on air quality (indoor/outdoor) and safety of public
places
14 pilots
http://www.citi-sense.eu/
http://www.citizen-obs.eu/
41. SCENT
• H2020 project
• Focus on active citizen
involvement in land cover/land
use monitoring
• For enhancing flood risk maps
• Pilots in Attica (GR) and
Danube Delta (RO)
42. CIVICFLOW
• A tool for managing civic
engagement campaigns
• Used in CITI-SENSE
• At the heart of the SCENT
crowdsourcing platform
• FREE for non-commercial
usage
• www.civicflow.com