[open-science] Fwd: FW: London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, 2-3 September 2010

Wed Aug 11 12:40:19 UTC 2010

Would be great if some folks from this group were able to represent
the open data is science WG at this event in London!

Can anyone make it? Worth asking if there's any room for a brief slot?

Jonathan

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London Citizen Cyberscience Summit

 2-3 September 2010, King’s College London

 The world’s first summit on citizen cyberscience will be held at
King’s College London on 2-3 September.

Citizen cyberscience is a growing trend where ordinary people use
their computers and the world wide web to contribute in meaningful
ways to an increasingly wide range of scientific challenges.

Citizen cyberscience activity takes place all over the world and by
its very nature participants very rarely – if ever – meet. This event
will showcase a cross-section of these projects and will provide a
platform for scientists and citizens to share their thoughts on the
impact of citizen cyberscience face-to-face.

The summit will be hosted by King’s College London, and is organised
jointly by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, based at CERN in Geneva;
the Centre for e-Research at King’s; Queen Mary, University of London;
Imperial College London; University College London and GridRepublic.
It is supported by the Shuttleworth Foundation, the Joint Information
Systems Committee (JISC), e-ScienceTalk and Microsoft Research.

Confirmed speakers include David Anderson, director of the SETI at home
project, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of Berkeley; George
Dyson, historian and philosopher of science and author of ‘Darwin
Among the Machines’; and Myles Allen, head of ClimatePrediction.net at
Oxford University.

There are currently more than 100 active citizen cyberscience projects
- many address topical themes, such as modelling climate change
(ClimatePrediction.net) or simulating the spread of malaria
(MalariaControl.net). King’s staff will demonstrate how citizen
cyberscience can be applied to the cultural heritage sector through
the East London Theatre Archive project (elta-project.org).

The event will be of interest to both amateur and professional
scientists, to people who care about the impact of science on society,
and of society on science, and to those working in the digital
humanities and cultural heritage.

The Citizen Cyberscience Summit will take place on 2-3 September 2010
in the Anatomy Theatre & Museum at King’s College London’s Strand
Campus. To see the full programme and to book tickets, see
www.citizencyberscience.net/summit. The event will also be webcast.

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Anna Ashton

Communications & Administrative Officer

Centre for e-Research

King's College London

26-29 Drury Lane

London, WC2B 5RL

Tel: 020 7848 2689

Fax: 020 7848 1989

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch

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Jonathan Gray

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The Open Knowledge Foundation
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