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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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