En el contexto del Observatorio de la Ciencia Ciudadana se llevan a cabo sesiones de trabajo online en Twitter, cada día 15 de mes.
En la siguiente sesión temática participa como panelista Luigi Ceccaroni, de 1000001 Labs:
15 septiembre: sostenibilidad y financiación de ciencia ciudadana
Te invitamos a unirte; solo tienes que usar el hashtag #CitSciChatEs. En horario de 12-13 h (CET) cualquier persona pueda participar, de la siguiente manera:
a) entrar en Twitter;
b) buscar la conversación con el hashtag #CitSciChatEs ;
c) comentar lo que te apetezca, usando dicho hashtag.
La ciencia ciudadana aprovecha las redes sociales para que el conocimiento llegue a todos los rincones, sin fronteras. Por eso se realizan sesiones de conversación en Twitter para que cualquier persona pueda participar tranquilamente sin tener que desplazarse.
La idea y la metodología parte del trabajo de Caren Cooper @CoopSciScoop quien mueve las #CitSciChat los últimos miércoles de cada mes, en torno a las 21 h (CET). Os animamos a participar y disfrutar con ellas.
En una #CitSciChatEs, simplemente hay que vigilar el hashtag #CitSciChatEs y utilizarlo en cada tweet para que los demás también puedan verlo. Sin ser necesario, se recomienda usar herramientas como TweetDeck [https://tweetdeck.twitter.com] o similar.
Cada #CitSciChatEs tiene una temática relacionada con la ciencia ciudadana y unas 6-8 preguntas preparadas con antelación que se lanzan cada pocos minutos. Cada sesión dura 1 hora por lo que el tiempo entre pregunta y pregunta suele ser unos 8-10 minutos.
Para facilitar la dinámica, además del hashtag se usa P y R para Preguntas y Respuestas. Es fácil: “P1 #CitSciChatES” para lanzar la primera pregunta, “P2 #CitSciChatES” para lanzar la segunda pregunta y así sucesivamente. Y se usa “R1 #CitSciChatES” para responder a la primera pregunta y “R2 #CitSciChatES” para responder a la segunda pregunta y así sucesivamente.
Por ejemplo, una pregunta puede ser:
@CC P1 ¿Qué herramientas y materiales se necesitan para un proyecto de ciencia ciudadana que cree arte abstracto con juguetes? #CitSciChatEs
y la respuesta podría ser
@1000001Labs #CitSciChatEs R1 Papel de estraza, pintura, juguetes de cuerda o a pilas #CienciaCiudadana #CitizenScience
Como se puede ver, es opcional el uso de otros hashtags como #CienciaCiudadana o #CitizenScienceo #CitSci, pero puede ser útil para atraer a más gente a la discusión.
Para esta sesión, se han invitado a unas pocas personas a modo de panelistas:
- Luigi Ceccaroni, 1000001 Labs
- Gonzalo Remiro, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT)
- Josep Perelló, Open Systems
- …
Background information (freely based on an iDiv [https://www.idiv.de/] survey)
General types of funders and supporters of citizen science:
a. Public funder (national)
b. Public funder (EU level)
c. Public funder (international)
d. Private/charity funder (national)
e. Private/charity funder (EU level)
f. Private/charity funder (international)
Specific types of funders and supporters of citizen science:
a. National government
b. Regional government
c. Local government
d. Non-governmental organization
e. National research funding
f. EU research funding
g. Crowdfunding
h. Lottery
Types of support of citizen science:
a. Funding specifically for citizen science
b. General research funding that could be used for citizen science
c. Funding for citizen-science components within a research project
d. Involving citizens directly in assessing funding applications (for example as lay reviewers)
e. Involving citizens directly in setting a research strategy (for example by obtaining and incorporating input from non-specialists into strategic policy decisions)
f. Guidance or other information about citizen science (for example good practice or ethics)
g. Training for researchers on how to do citizen science
General barriers for funding:
– The availability of initial funding is not appropriate
– The availability of follow up funding is not appropriate
– The availability of long-term funding is not appropriate
– The know-how and effort for securing funding is not appropriate
Barriers for funding for specific project components, if there is not sufficient funding for…:
– volunteer coordination & feedback
– data validation and quality control
– data management and processing for further use
– communication and outreach
– training of volunteers and local coordinators
– training material
– scoping studies to design citizen science projects
– involvement of NGOs or other non-scientific partners
– meetings (e.g. annual meetings with volunteers)
Challenges other than financial issues when trying to initiate or carry out a citizen science project:
– Too little appreciation in academia
– Too little appreciation in society and politics
– Concerns over quality assurance of data
– Added value of citizen science for science is unclear
– The infrastructure to implement citizen science projects is insufficient
– There are not enough networking and exchange opportunities in citizen science
– The legal framework remains unclear (copyright/data law)
– Ethical concerns (privacy protection of volunteers)
– Little scientific experience in conceptualizing and implementing citizen science projects
– Lack of interest and engagement of citizens
– Involving citizens is difficult and time-consuming
Engaging citizens has the following added values to research as compared to conventional research not involving citizens:
citizens’ involvement provides data sets on large spatial and temporal scales
involving citizens saves time, money and resources
citizens provide a wide range of expertise, e.g. local or traditional knowledge or taxonomic expertise
citizens’ involvement increases knowledge other than scientific, e.g. on local political structures, practical knowledge
citizens’ involvement raise new scientific questions
citizens’ involvement makes research more relevant
Types of social or political impact of citizen-science projects:
– Enhanced science-community interaction
– Enhanced community-policy interaction
– Enhanced science-policy interactions (for example meetings, exchange of information)
– Educational impact: increased knowledge of environmental/social issues
– Behavioral change
– Enhanced evidence to evaluate and influence policy
– Direct influence on policy decision (for example planning)
Ways a citizen-science project can contribute to policy-making:
- Policy issue identification: The project can help to identify new policy-relevant issues by providing scientific evidence and communicating the results to policy-makers.
- Policy measure identification: One aim of the project is to develop policy measures according to the project results and support interest/lobbying groups.
- Policy measure implementation: Part of the project is to advice policy-makers by providing tools (e.g. methodological frameworks) for the implementation of policies.
- Policy measure effectiveness: Part of the project is to evaluate/review current policy measures.