Session
Subtheme
Institute of Marine Sciences
Karen Soacha, Institute of Marine Sciences, Pranesh Prakash, Anekanta
Karen Soacha, Institute of Marine Sciences, Pranesh Prakash, Anekanta
Organization's Website
Speakers
Karen Soacha, Institute of Marine Sciences, Pranesh Prakash, Anekanta
Onsite Moderator
Karen Soacha
Rapporteur
Pranesh Prakash, Anekanta
SDGs
17. Partnerships for the Goals
Targets: This talk aligns with **SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals)** through collaborative governance in citizen science technologies. Strengthening partnerships between communities, researchers, and institutions ensures that decision-making in citizen observatories, like MINKA, is inclusive and sustainable. Empowering communities as active participants fosters long-term cooperation, resource sharing, and collective action. Establishing robust governance models enhances citizen science’s contribution to global sustainability efforts, reinforcing partnerships that support environmental and social goals.
Targets: This talk aligns with **SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals)** through collaborative governance in citizen science technologies. Strengthening partnerships between communities, researchers, and institutions ensures that decision-making in citizen observatories, like MINKA, is inclusive and sustainable. Empowering communities as active participants fosters long-term cooperation, resource sharing, and collective action. Establishing robust governance models enhances citizen science’s contribution to global sustainability efforts, reinforcing partnerships that support environmental and social goals.
Format
Lightning Talks
Duration (minutes)
20
Description
The technologies that facilitate the coproduction of scientific knowledge between scientists and volunteers are citizen science platforms or citizen observatories. Millions of data are generated annually around the world by communities of volunteers. As data generation expands, so do the possibilities for communities to use these technologies to solve their problems. Environmental conflicts, land management, monitoring of traffic and deforestation, are some of the problems that have been addressed. Citizen observatories face multiple challenges to be effective and survive in the long term. Those challenges as present in multiple dimensions: infrastructure, standards, workflows, data management, access and use rules, communication and engagement. One of the cornerstones to facing these challenges is the empowerment of the communities that use these platforms. Empowerment means actively participating in decision-making and management. Moving from the model of communities as “only users” to communities as “decision agents”.
Documentation of experiences on how communities participate in decisions to manage citizen science technologies is quite limited. Although the topic of governance of data and infrastructure is the order of the day, the information available on this topic on citizen science platforms still needs to be made available.
We will share the results of documenting experiences about decision-making for the management of citizen science platforms. Based on these experiences, we will present the governance model proposed for MINKA. MINKA is a citizen observatory that seeks to facilitate the monitoring of sustainable development goals (SDGs) with an emphasis on environmental and biodiversity monitoring.
It is plan only an onsite event
It is plan only an onsite event