Muki HaklayRosi Mondardini and Francois Grey #ECSA2024 #citizenSciene #SDG - the citizen science global partnership. Providing an overview https://citizenscienceglobal.org/ - it includes the regional citizen science associations with different hubs, with the secretariat at IIASA. It's a group of individuals who communicate with the UN but want to know who to communication with - to have a common contact point and it is set for this purpose. Strategic coordination
The CSGP is especially exploring north-south support in the area of citizen science. Doing advocacy, collaboration, networking, and advancement. Such activity is the YOMA that is supported by UNICEF and aimed at youth with a learning by earning and that includes citizen science. Another example is the air quality monitoring with a range of projects from different countries and methodologies. #ECSA2024 #CitizenScience
#ECSA2024 Also contributing to UNESCO Open Science recommendations https://www.unesco.org/en/open-science/toolkit and also Mosquito Alert. There is a recognition of the UN WHO chief statistician of citizen science. It is data that is critical for achieving the SDG. There is an aim to change the attitude towards citizen science. CSGP is not diverse enough and there is a need to progress the activities of the partnership. Scaling might be through standards.
#ECSA2024 it might be that we should aim at scaling down with local projects.