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EPA Offers up to $80,000 to Communities to Develop Air Sensor Data Best...
By Ann Dunkin, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SMART CITIES AIR CHALLENGE INFORMATION Application Deadline: October 28, 2016 Announcement of Winners: Around December 1,...
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From Chengdu to Berlin: Commons Lab Citizen Science Activities in May
May 2016 brought the Commons Lab to Chengdu, Sichuan Provence in the People’s Republic of China. We were completing the second workshop in a series on “Storytelling is Serious Business” for...
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EVENT: Citizen Science and Public Decision Making in the United States
Source: Wikimedia Commons How does the disconnect between professional scientists and public decision makers in normal policy settings translate for citizen science projects? To address this question,...
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Flint Offers Lessons on How Citizen Collaboration Can Hold Governments...
This post is re-blogged from New Security Beat, the blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center. You may find the original piece here, posted on April 21, 2016. The...
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Reflections on the Federal Catalog of Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Projects
This Blog Post is a collaboration between Anne Bowser, Sven Schade, Greg Newman, Claudia Göbel, Peter Brenton, and Darlene Cavalier. In conjunction with the sixth and final Science Fair hosted by...
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CitizenScience.Gov segment on Wilson Center NOW
This week the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Wilson Center launched citizenscience.gov, a new central hub for citizen science and crowdsourcing initiatives in the public sector. The...
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards $500,000 grant to Commons Lab to promote...
This post is re-blogged from the EurekAlert!. You may find the original press release here, posted on March 31, 2016. EurekAlert! is an online news service operated by the American Association for the...
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Foul and Filthy Rivers, Water School and Hunting Plants: Citizen Science in...
Beijing River Bend taken by Peter Morgan (source) By Elizabeth Tyson and Kate Logan (Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs) Blackened rivers snake the ring roads of Beijing, carrying pollution...
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Citizen Science and the Flint Water Crisis
LeeAnne Walters shows Dr. Marc Edwards a used filter that was filled with rust after seven days of use (Photo courtesy of FlintWaterStudy.org) In April 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan decided to...
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Event Recap: Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science, and the Law
With the inherent role that open data and open science plays in crowdsourcing and citizen science, understanding how intellectual property rights (IP) and legal issues could impact federal citizen...
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Open Data in the President’s Budget for 2017
The Obama administration seems serious about open data. The administration’s recently released budget for fiscal year 2017 highlights the federal government’s commitment to open data, not only for the...
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Data and Metadata in Italy: Reporting from the Citizen Science Data and...
Source: Wikimedia Commons By Sven Schade, Anne Bowser, and Russell Scarpino With the growth of citizen science comes the challenge of coordinating people, projects, and data. But these challenges also...
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EVENT: Legal Issues and Intellectual Property Rights in Citizen Science
Capitalizing on the momentum from the recent White House event — which appointed citizen science coordinators in Federal agencies, highlighted legislation introduced in Congress concerning funding...
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Get involved in the Sustainable Development Goals and create your own project!
This blog post originally appeared on one.org, written by By Ruba Ishak, ONE Senior Research Assistant We all have a role to play in creating a sustainable future for us and our planet. Tracking these...
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Introducing the Data and Metadata Working Group of the Citizen Science...
This post is re-blogged from the Citizen Science Association website. Flickr photo, Research Data Management, by janneke staaks. The CSA board recently approved a Citizen Science Data and Metadata...
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New Report: Science Hack Day – Bridging the Hacking Community & Government
On May 16th & 17th of 2015 the Commons Lab hosted Washington, D.C.’s first-ever Science Hack Day in collaboration with ArtsEdge of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts. The event was attended...
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Eye on Earth Summit: Enabling conditions – using data to accomplish the 2030...
Jim Toomey, author of the comic strip “Sherman’s Lagoon” opened day three with tips on how to get the words climate change as many google search hits as Taylor Swift. What are enabling conditions?...
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Eye on Earth Summit: Data Supply
“When someone in my field [environment] says they have hope, listen to them, because we don’t say that often,” said World Resources Institute’s Vice President of Science and Research Janet Ranganathan...
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Eye on Earth Summit 2015: Day 1, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Today marks the first day of the Eye on Earth Summit, an alliance dedicated to the Rio 10 Principle of access to reliable, scientifically accurate and relevant information for environmental decision...
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White house memo has implications for DIYbio/Maker/Hacker communities (2 of 3)
Yesterday, John P. Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memorandum to the heads of executive departments and agencies calling for a variety of...
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