Presentation to open the second day of the citizen cyberscience summit

1. Citizen Cyberscience Summit – look
beneath the surface
Muki Haklay @mhaklay
Extreme Citizen Science group @ucl_excites
WiFi: use UCLGuest
Code: CitizenCyberscience2014
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2. Thanks to our sponsors

5. February
16th – 18th
2012
RGS & UCL
London

6. Web availability and interaction
(CC) Ell Brown (Flickr)

7. Increased level of education
World population and students in tertiary education,
World Bank data
10000
1000
100
95
99
107
1999
2000
2001
116
124
132
138
146
154
159
165
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
10
1
Tertiary Ed
World Population

8. Understanding scientific
concepts
© Sanja Gjenero (sxc.hu)
© Nimalan Tharmalingam (sxc.hu)
© Cambridge University Press

9. Citizen Science today
PhD
Postgraduate
University/College
High School
Basic School
Literacy
Problem
definition
Data collection
Classification
& basic analysis
Visualisation &
analysis
Action

10. PhD
Postgraduate
University/College
High School
Basic School
Literacy
Problem
definition
Data collection
Classification
& basic analysis
Visualisation &
analysis
Action

11. Participation in citizen science
Level 4 ‘Extreme’
• Collaborative science – problem
definition, data collection and analysis
Level 3 ‘Participatory • Participation in problem definition
and data collection
science’
Level 2 ‘Distributed
intelligence’
Level 1
‘Crowdsourcing’
• Citizens as basic interpreters
• Citizens as sensors

12. #CCS14
• SETTING THE SCENE (DAY 1)
• LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE (DAY 2)
• GET DOWN TO BUSINESS…TOGETHER! (DAY 3)

13. #CCS14
• LISTEN (academic conference focus)
• TALK (academic + workshop + talkshop)
• DO (hackday and practitioners talks)

16. Today
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Talks and workshops
Citizen Science Café
Art – the citizen cyberscience nightmare wall!
Think and start working towards challenges
8x5min slots in the unconference session!
• EveryAware Symposium
• Citizen Science & Urban Science
• Workshops from sponsors: ESRI tools & National
Geographic Citizen Geography & Socientize policy
workshop & Connecting Communities

18. G04 – Coffee , talk, share
Gustav Tuck – listen
G08 – listen
G07 – workshop
217 – workshop
Class room – workshop
Be nice to the neighbours

19. • We need you!
– Volunteering (reception desk)
– Keep the place tidy, help after the reception
– Keep to time in your session
– Link your talk and storify to Lanyrd
– And talk with as many people as you can