Authors:
Ahmed Seffah
Engaging non-scientists in scientific data collection and research is known as citizen science [1]. It has also been defined as scientific citizenship, foregrounding the necessity of opening up science and science-policy processes to the public. It has been widely discussed as the public participation in science and communication projects [2]. Today, a range of concepts have emerged referring to citizen science and participation, such as volunteered geographic information, crowdsourcing geospatial data, people-centric sensing, participatory sensing, and mobile crowdsourcing. One of them, the citizen observatory (CO), has received a great deal of interest in terms of its applications and research…
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