[open-science] Fwd: Mini ThinkCamp - When Social Media met Citizen Science - September 24th @ The Dana Centre, London

Sun Sep 15 18:56:03 UTC 2013

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From: Margaret Gold <margaret at citizencyberlab.eu>
Date: Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:41 PM
Subject: Mini ThinkCamp - When Social Media met Citizen Science - September
24th @ The Dana Centre, London
To: open-science at lists.okfn.org
Cc: R Mounce OKF <ross.mounce at okfn.org>, open-science-owner at lists.okfn.org

 *The Citizen Cyberlab & The Mobile Collective invite you to join us for an
evening of exploration and discussion about how Social Media can boost the
power of science in the hands of individual citizens, across the globe.*

REGISTRATION: http://socialmediaweek.org/london/events/?id=83971

This event will bring together creative minds from the world of Social
Media with scientists and others with an interest in Social Media or
Citizen Science. Together we will explore the possibilities for Social
Media within Citizen Science, using a “thinkcamp” approach, in which the
participants themselves identify challenges and propose solutions for them.
What is Citizen Science?

Citizen Science is real science done collaboratively by amateurs,
volunteers, and enthusiasts around the globe. People are classifying
galaxies <http://www.galaxyzoo.org/> from their computers, monitoring
the health
of trees <http://www.opalexplorenature.org/ash-tree-news> in their
community, transcribing weather reports <http://www.oldweather.org/> from
old naval logs, and gathering data  <http://www.epicollect.net/>to make a
real contribution to scientific research. One emerging branch dubbed “Extreme
Citizen Science<http://povesham.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/levels-of-participation-in-citizen-science-and-scientific-knowledge-production/>”
provides tools that can be used by any individual, regardless of their
level of literacy, to collect, analyse and act on information by using
established scientific methods. This allows any community to start a
Citizen Science project to deal with the issues that concern them – from
biodiversity<http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2012/november/important-role-of-citizen-science-in-monitoring-uk-biodiversity117160.html>
to
food production, involving communities from housing estates in
London<http://www.london21.org/borough/news/show/25/1501/>
 to hunter-gatherers and forest villagers in the Congo
Basin<https://uclexcites.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/participatory-mapping-in-congo-brazzaville-part-1/>
.
What’s the role of Social Media?

Social Media include discussion
forums<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum>,
blogs, wikis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki>, tweets, voting, picture
sharing and rating sites as well as social
bookmarking<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking>.
 When mobile devices are added to the mix,  Social Media often involve
sharing real-time mobile information such as location (e.g. Foursquare)
media use as well as user-generated content, such as photos.

Many Citizen Science projects are now taking advantage of mobile phones and
tablets for easy data collection, such as iPhone apps for
monitoring<http://www.projectnoah.org/> birds
and marine wildlife or the NASA Meteor Counter
app.<http://meteorcounter.com/> Discussion
forums have always played a major role in Citizen Science, but the full
potential of Social Media for Citizen Science has only just begun to be
tapped.

Some examples of Social Media in Citizen Science projects:

   -

   GeoTag Libya<http://www.unitar.org/citizens-mission-unosat-reveals-new-cybermappr-crowd-sourcing-application>
used
   metadata from photo-sharing sites like flickr and twitter to geo-locate
   thousands of photos of  areas affected by military operations to help
   UNOSAT experts assess damage to civilian infrastructure.
   - Aurorasaurus <http://www.aurorasaurus.org/> uses twitter to aggregate
   and share real-time data about aurora borealis sightings around the world.

What is a ThinkCamp?

ThinkCamps create an open and stimulating environment for the sharing and
comparing of experiences, frustrations, skills and visions for the future.
There is just enough structure to allow you to discuss issues, flesh-out
ideas, and provide the right balance of expertise and support to act on
those ideas.

The ThinkCamp format <http://mobilecollective.wordpress.com/#recent> has
been developed by the Mobile Collective as  a collaborative approach to
tackling important challenges, by bringing together a range of experiences,
expertise and skills.  At a full ThinkCamp , we would aim to develop
proposals for action beyond the workshop itself. In our Mini ThinkCamp we
will be focusing on the cross pollination of ideas over a range of
expertise and experience. But of course we hope that you’ll be inspired to
action as well!
The Agenda

6:30     Doors open at the Dana Centre, drinks & nibbles

7:00     Open ‘Taster’ Talk – introducing Citizen Science (Margaret Gold &
Brian Fuchs, of the Mobile Collective)

7:20     Science Wrap-Around – the latest news from the coal-face about
Citizen Science and Social Media. (Muki Haklay, UCL ExCiteS and others)

7:45    ‘Open Space’ – breaking out into Group Discussions at the tables,
with questions such as:

 1.   How can Social Media contribute to existing Citizen Science projects
and communities?

2.   What new kinds of Citizen Science projects are possible with Social
Media?

3.   How can Brands & Channel Owners use their reach to support
science-based-change in small communities around the globe?

8:30    Share & Tell – a chance to share ideas that came out of the
break-out discussions with the whole group.

9:00 – 9:30 Networking

DETAILS

VENUE = The Science Museum’s Dana Centre, 165 Queen’s Gate  London SW7 5HD

DATE & TIME = Tuesday the 24th of September,  open doors 6.30pm, event
7-8.30pm, networking 8.30-9pm

HOSTED BY = The Mobile Collective & Citizen Cyberlab, in association with
the British Science Association

REGISTRATION = http://socialmediaweek.org/london/events/?id=83971

<http://www.citizencyberlab.eu/>

www.citizencyberlab.eu / +44 798 563 2237 / margaretgold /
@CitizenCyberlab<https://twitter.com/CitizenCyberlab>
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