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Tracking a Changing Climate Workshop Summary
How can Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing play a role in tracking our changing climate? The Commons Lab collaborated with US Global Climate Research Program and the Federal Community of Practice for...
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Nutrient Sensor Challenge Opens
The Alliance for Coastal Technologies and a coalition of the following organizations: Office of Science and Technology Policy, US Department of Agriculture, US Environmental Protection Agency, US...
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WEBINAR: Trans-NIH Workshop to Explore the Ethical, Legal and Social...
The purpose of this workshop is to identify the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) challenges raised by Citizen Science in the context of biomedical research and identify ways for the...
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NOAA on Citizen Science: It’s in America’s DNA
This is a cross post from NOAA’s blog at the Office of Education: The article is drawn from a keynote by NOAA Chief Scientist, Dr. Richard Spinrad, at a forum hosted by the U.S. Global Climate Change...
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Curated List of Talks/Posters at the Citizen Science Association (Feb 11-12)
When the inaugural conference of the Citizen Science Association (CSA) gets underway next week in San Jose projects and ideas from every end of the spectrum, across many disciplines and encompassing a...
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New Reports on Citizen Science from the European and Intellectual Property...
The Commons Lab at the Wilson Center is releasing two new reports today that address different challenges facing citizen science: One examining the policy implications of a range of successful citizen...
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REPORT RELEASE: Crowdsourcing and Legal Issues Affecting Federal Agencies
The Commons Lab is excited to announce a long-anticipated publication by Privacy Lawyer Robert Gellman on Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science, and the Law: Legal Issues Affecting Federal Agencies. This...
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Science Hack Day DC Summary
PoliConnect, the Policy Award winners. In 31 hours the team created a platform to facilitate connection between policy makers and experts advice. We are happy to announce an incredibly successful...
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Eye On Earth Alliance Calling Citizen Scientists
Image Source: Eye on Earth Website PRESS RELEASE, Abu Dhabi, 16 July 2015 – The Eye on Earth Summit 2015 launched its Data Innovation Showcase today, with two challenges calling on citizen scientists...
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Citizen Science used in studying Seasonal Variation in India
The article was written by Rohin Daswani, who is a Research Assistant with the Commons Lab at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Climate change has started affecting many countries...
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Citizen Science & The Law: A New Web-Enabled Policy Tool
Navigating legal and administrative barriers while implementing citizen science and crowdsourcing projects at the federal level can be complex and confusing. The Commons Lab published a report earlier...
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White house highlights citizen science (1 of 3)
The Commons Lab will publish a three part blog series in celebration of the White House Event on Open Science and Open Innovation. Each article will highlight a different initiative announced during...
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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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