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The Arizona State University (ASU) Citizen Science and Maker Summit 2016  is an event hosted by ASU designed to explore the crossroads of citizen science, the maker movement and higher education. The summit is scheduled for October 26, 27 & 28, 2016 for downtown Chandler, Arizona at the ASU Chandler Innovation Center.

1000001 Labs participates in two related events:

1) Citizen Science Tools Database/Meta Data Workshop
2) Citizen Science and Maker Summit

The ASU Citizen Science Maker Summit 2016 will facilitate the sharing of best practices and help jump-start opportunities for the citizen science and making communities to learn from each other. The event will include a combination of breakout sessions, skill-building workshops and networking events, as well as multiple keynote speakers.

Summit highlights:

Explore best practices between makers and citizen scientists and learn how these two communities can benefit from each other.

Participate in multiple networking activities that allow you to connect with other conference attendees.

Engage in hands-on workshops conducted by TechShop staff and experience first hand what select machines can do. You will be able to take home what you make!

Filip Velickovski presents his thesis on “clinical decision support for screening, diagnosis and assessment of respiratory diseases“, using “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as a use case”.

The motivation behind the thesis is related to the negative impact of COPD on human society:
– COPD is caused by inhalation of irritants – mainly tobacco smoking;
– COPD is a respiratory disease characterized by non-reversible airflow limitation;
– airflow limitation is progressive.

(Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States alone, including nearly 42,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.)

Objectives of the thesis:

• To achieve optimal clinical decision support system (CDSS) design to support healthcare providers with early-stage COPD detection
• To develop reasoning methods and algorithms for decision support tasks in COPD management
• To develop algorithms for quality assurance of spirometry
• To validate the algorithms against expert clinical professionals

Conclusions of the thesis:

• High prevalence + under-diagnosis of COPD cause a high burden in non-specialist settings
• CDSS as a complementary service to integrated care of chronic patients
• CDSS into healthcare providers work-flow
• Rule-based and data-driven methods to support screening, case-finding, and diagnosis
• Evaluations of these methods show performance near the level of clinical expert
• Credible potential to assist non-specialist healthcare providers

Summary of the contributions of the thesis:

• A CDSS framework that includes:
  • Adapted incremental software development model
  • Reasoning paradigm
  • Suite of decision support services
• Extension to the HL7 virtual medical record (VMR) for the representation of COPD concepts allowing & enabling interoperability
• Software architecture model facilitating CDSS services to be integrated to existing health information systems (HISs)
• COPD guidelines’ representation through rules benchmarked against clinical experts
• 28 new rules using 23 novel metrics assuring quality of spirometry by targeting 5 curve zones
• Multi-expert model of spirometry QA using ML
• Quality assurance approaches validated using three experts

Future work:

• Expand CDSS capabilities
  • Personalised treatment recommendations
  • Exacerbation prognosis
  • Issue recommendations for specific integrated care programs
• Classification of rejected spirometry
• Evaluate CDSS for COPD in pilot trial
• Adapt the CDSS framework to other non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as diabetes and heart disease, and to the case of co-morbid patients

The INSPIRE Directive aims to create a European Union spatial data infrastructure for the purposes of EU environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment. This European Spatial Data Infrastructure will enable the sharing of environmental spatial information among public sector organisations, facilitate public access to spatial information across Europe and assist in policy-making across boundaries.

INSPIRE is based on the infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the Member States of the European Union. The Directive addresses 34 spatial data themes needed for environmental applications.

The Directive came into force on 15 May 2007 and will be implemented in various stages, with full implementation required by 2021.

This video provides an overview of why INSPIRE is needed and what types of spatial are covered by INSPIRE.

Over the past decades the European Union has put in place a broad range of environmental legislation to protect, preserve and improve Europe’s environment for present and future generations. However, many challenges persist and these must be tackled together in a structured way. The 7th Environment Action Programme (EAP), guiding European environment policy until 2020, identifies the priority areas where more action is needed and ascertains INSPIRE as one of the instruments of the enabling framework to meet these goals.

INSPIRE is about efficiently sharing digital spatial data related to the environment between public authorities at all levels of government, across borders and with the public at large. Such requires effective coordination between all authorities involved and a high degree of legal and technical interoperability, which is also pursued in the context of the EU Digital Single Market.

As such, the INSPIRE Conference 2016 also aims to show how the implementation of INSPIRE contributes to the European Interoperability Framework and the EU’s digital economy in general. The INSPIRE Conference 2016 takes place in Barcelona, 26-30 September 2016.

Program of the activities related to Citizen Observatories at the INSPIRE Conference 2016

Barcelona, Monday September 26th – Wednesday September 28th, 2016

Abstract

Current society requires easy, reliable and quick access to environmental information published by various organizations and initiatives. The environment questions cover many activities that produce various sorts of data. They are connected with natural risks and hazards (e.g. floods, forest fires), pollution and contamination of air, soil or water, degradation of landscape (e.g. deforestation, erosion, slide processes), scientific research (ecology, geographical sciences), historical landscape memory (landscape ecological research), education and raising public awareness and business activities (e.g. eco-tourism, ecological farms, ecological food production). Local and community activities capture local knowledge in multimedia forms including videos, photos or oral histories. The collected information can contribute to up-to-date data. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is the harnessing of tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals . In the context of voluntary data collection, an important part is the way how data are processed. An example can be Neogeography (New Age Geography) focused on combining geotagged data (e.g. KML ) with a map interface for contextualised exploration. In Neogeography data can be from volunteers (VGI) or from professionals and can be open or with restricted access. Neogeography is closely related to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Web 2.0 and mapping capabilities of the geospatial web. VGI and Citizens Observatories INSPIRE Hack will be the first hackathon combined with a INSPIRE conference with the aim to create the space, where those with the interest in the potential of VGI and Citizens Observatories can meet, present their tools and components from existing projects and discuss and explore how results, ideas and knowledge can be combined in possible ways for new projects and for new project ideas. VGI and Citizens Observatories INSPIRE Hack will run through the first three days of the INSPIRE conference. There might be an option also for continuing the hackathon for the last two days of the conference. The first session will present projects and tools dealing with VGI Information and Citizen Observatories namely: CITI-SENSE, COBWEB, WeSenseIt, SDI4Apps, Open Transport Net, FOODIE The second session will present new projects and project ideas for VGI and Citizens Observatories/Citizen Science – in particular: SCENT, Ground Truth 2.0, LandSense, GROW and potentially other ideas from the participants.

Monday September 26th

VGI and Citizen Observatories INSPIRE Hack

Karel Charvat, Arne J. Berre, Tomas Mildorf, Bente Lilja Bye and Sven Schade

1100 – 1230:  First block –Introduction to the new CO projects, and results from the  existing projects

10 minutes Introduction – purpose of VGI and Citizen Observatories INSPIRE Hack Karel Charvat, Arne Berre, Tomas Mildorf, Bente

10 minutes – Why is VGI and Citizen Observatories important for INSPIRE, Copernicus and GEOSS, Jose Miguel Rubio Iglesias, (prev. EU Commission)

30 minutes:  Short presentations of the software needs/ planned results of the 4 new CO projects  (The full projects will be presented in the VGI/CO sessions on Wednesday)

SCENT – Anastasia

Ground Truth 2.0 – Joan Masó

LandSense _ Ian McCallum

GROW – Andy

30 minutes:  Short presentations of the results of the 3 remaining CO projects and Citclops   (The full projects will be presented in the VGI/CO sessions on Wednesday – and the results that will be worked on/discussed in the workshop will be presented also in more detail in the challenges in the second block after lunch)

SDI4App, : FOODIE, OpenTrasnportNet:    Karel and Tomas

CITI-SENSE:  Arne and Alena and Leo

Citclops (Luigi, 1000001 Labs)

WeSenseIt: Suvodeep

Tuesday September 27th

0900 – 1200:  VGI and Citizen Observatories INSPIRE Hack – session continued – working in teams/groups based on discussions from end of Monday

1230 – 1330:  Plenary:  Interim report and consolidation of group/team work

1400 – 1600:  VGI and Citizen Observatories INSPIRE Hack – work session finalisation (in groups as decided in the previous plenary)

1630 – 1800:  Plenary:  Final  report and consolidation of group/team work – discussion on future work – input for the Wednesday conference sessions on Citizen Science/Crowd sourcing

Barcelona,  Wednesday September 28th, 2016 (0900 – 1800)

INSPIRE’2016

Citizen science/crowd sourcing track

Wednesday September 28th

Citizen science/crowd sourcing

Citizen science/crowd sourcing

Citizen science/crowd sourcing

Citizens Observatories Community Activity in GEO

You can find info on the GEO Work Programme here: http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss_wp.php. The GEO Work Programme is the primary coordination and planning instrument to assist GEO with the selection and prioritization of its activities. Currently there is a 2016 Transitional Work Programme, but as of January 2017 we will have a Work Programme with a 2017-2019 time-span. This will be adopted by the GEO Plenary in St Petersburg.

The GEO Work Programme provides the framework for implementing agreed activities by GEO Members and Participating Organisations. It is organized into four major parts describing the proposed activities subdivided according to the four implementation mechanisms defined in the GEO Strategic Plan through 2025 (full text here). One of the GEO mechanisms are the so-called “Community Activities“. Community Activities allow stakeholders to cooperate flexibly in a bottom-up fashion and with a low initiation cost. They can include a broad variety of activities with varying degrees of coordination. GEO Community Activities may, for example, define user needs, explore new frontier applications or demonstrate technical possibilities, or agree on specific observation or analysis protocols and data exchange. In conclusion, Community Activities are light instruments that help coordinate existing activities and link them with the rest of the GEO community.

Citizens’ observatories and related activities have been recognised as part of the GEOSS components with the new Strategic Plan, but so far there has been limited visibility within GEO. There is scope to propose a GEO Community Activity on citizens’ observatories and citizen science, where all the discussions currently ongoing about standards and best practices regarding interoperability and discoverability of this kind of data, as well as engagement methodologies, can be put in the GEO context. This can also bring in Citizen Science associations and many other actors, which is an opportunity for further engagement (as also included in the recent draft of the Engagement Strategy).  This community activity can, and should, be open to activities beyond the EU funded CO projects (ideally also activities beyond Europe!)

Draft activities and outputs planned for 2017-2019:

• Promotion of the use of standards and best practices for the management of citizen-acquired data
• Investigation of algorithms for the integration of citizen-acquired data and other data sources
• Promotion of environmental governance using citizen-science approaches
• Promotion of demonstration case studies, such as the H2020 citizens’ observatories, within the GEO community
• Building a GEO community of practice around citizen observatories by linking to existing initiatives such as European Citizen Science Association (ECSA)
• Addressing potential synergies with other GEO initiatives such as GEO BON and GEOGLAM
• Collecting best practices for discovery and access to this kind of citizen-observed data through the GCI/GEOSS
• Research the motivations and incentives that stimulate citizen participation within the observatories
• Study how the Data Management Principles can be supported and implemented by CO
• Consider strategies for CO long term data preservation
• In coordination with the in-situ task in GEOSS, determine the best way to combine CO data with other in-situ data
• Consider the power of in-situ data to calibrate/validate RS data

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.

El coloquio organizado por la FNOB con motivo del Día Mundial de los Océanos congregó a los científicos que participaron en la edición de la Barcelona World Race 2014/15, quienes expusieron los puntos fundamentales de los trabajos de investigación realizados en la regata. La pasada edición de la Barcelona World Race selló una alianza sin precedentes entre el mundo de la vela y la comunidad científica. A 14 meses de la finalización de la vuelta al mundo a dos, la Fundació Navegació Oceànica Barcelona (FNOB), organizadora de la regata, ha reunido a los investigadores que participaron en los proyectos científicos en un coloquio, en el que ha participado Didac Costa, en representación de los skippers y Suso Pérez, periodista que conoce a fondo la génesis y el desarrollo de la regata. NAVEGANT PER LA CIÈNCIA: Balanç dels Projectes Científics de la Barcelona World Race 2014-2015

DIA: 8 de juny de 2016 HORA: 12 LLOC: Seu FNOB, Antic Edifici Remolcadors, Moll de Llevant 1, 08039 Barcelona   Luigi Ceccaroni / 1000001 Labs i Eurecat “Citclops: avaluació de la qualitat de l’aigua en superfície a partir de fotografies geo-localitzades al llarg del recorregut de la Barcelona World Race 14_15” Jordi Salat / Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC “TermoSal: mesura de la salinitat i temperatura de l’aigua superficial del recorregut de la Barcelona World Race 14-15” Salvador Borrós / IQS-Institut Químic de Sarrià: “Anàlisi de microplàstics i contaminants orgànics en mars i oceans del món, al llarg del recorregut de la Barcelona World Race 14-15″ Pere Castells / Campus de l’Alimentació de Torribera – Universitat de Barcelona “Cuina d’autor per la competició de vela més extrema” Victoria Pons / CAR de Sant Cugat “Preparant una regata transoceànica: aspectes fisiològics i nutricionals” Eduard Estivill / Fundació Estivill “El son en navegació transoceànica” Belén Gualis / Centro Médico Teknon “Canvis físics i metabòlics d’ adaptació a l’ estrès en una regata extrema”

El acto ha servido para constatar la satisfacción que tanto entre la comunidad científica como en el mundo del deporte han generado los proyectos desarrollados en la tercera edición de la Barcelona World Race. El coloquio ha estado moderado por Pere Renom, biólogo y divulgador científico de la TV3, que consideró el tema central del acto – Deporte y ciencia, una colaboración provechosa – como un ejemplo de mutualismo biológico: una relación en la que cada uno de los participantes sale beneficiado.

Xosé-Carlos Fernández, director general de la FNOB, abrió el acto situando la experiencia científica de la Barcelona World Race 2014/15 en la filosofía de la Fundación. “En el deporte no sólo cuentan las aspiraciones de triunfo y el espíritu de competitividad, también la apuesta por el conocimiento científico, y en la FNOB hemos sido pioneros en este sentido: hemos comenzado a desarrollar el amplio ecosistema de disciplinas científicas que existe en la regata oceánica”. Fernández explicó el nacimiento de la iniciativa que llevó a la Barcelona World Race a acordar un convenio con la COI-UNESCO, ejemplo que han seguido otras regatas como la Vendée Globe. “La ciencia es un eje importante y trascendente en nuestro mapa estratégico – señaló el organizador de la vuelta al mundo a dos – más allá del deporte tenemos un amplio campo de desarrollo que queremos llegue de forma útil y eficaz a la sociedad, ayudando así a crear ciudadanos libres, creativos y responsables con los valores que emanan de la vela oceánica”.

A continuación intervino el Dr. Eduard Estivill, quien resaltó las ventajas para un investigador de disponer de una actividad como la vela oceánica y de los navegantes oceánicos. “Esto es sólo el principio. Este empuje de la vela oceánica ha de servir para continuar colaborando en la ciencia del conocimiento del ser humano”, comentó el experto en sueño.

Santi Serrat, director editorial de la FNOB, explicó el reto de comunicación que supuso el desarrollo de la plataforma científica de la Barcelona World Race y la magnífica repercusión que tuvo en la audiencia habitual de la vela oceánica: “Ha sido una experiencia pionera en la que hemos podido constatar el nivel de sensibilización respecto al medio ambiente y a la necesidad del desarrollo científico. El éxito de la experiencia se debe a ellos y, sobre todo, a los skippers que han actuado como agentes científicos tanto en la obtención de datos oceanográficos como en la prestación de ellos mismos como objetos de experimentación. Ellos han sido también los mejores agentes de comunicación”.

A continuación, el propio Eduard Estivill y el resto de los científicos asistentes han explicado una síntesis de sus proyectos, y contaron con Didac Costa como testimonio del significado que éstos han adquirido para los navegantes. Luigi Ceccaroni de 1000001 Labs y Eurecat, Salvador Borrós del Institut Químic de Sarrià, Pere Castells del Campus de l’Alimentació de Torribera – Universitat de Barcelona, Victoria Pons del CAR de Sant Cugat, Belén Gualis del Centro Médico Teknon y Jordi Salat del Institut de Ciències del Mar – CSIC coincidieron en la gran oportunidad que supone contar con un deporte extremo y singular como una vuelta al mundo para obtener datos, desarrollar conocimiento científico, y educar y sensibilizar a los ciudadanos.

Suso Pérez explicó finalmente la trascendencia que ha tenido en los medios de comunicación la apuesta científica de la Barcelona World Race que ha constituido un referente internacional y recordó la exposición realizada en las Naciones Unidas previa a la salida de la última edición: “Barcelona tiene que estar orgullosa de contar con un modelo deportivo, científico, social, cultural y educativo como el que ha creado con una regata que es propia de la ciudad”.

Cerró el acto Marta Carranza Gil-Dolz del Castellar, Presidenta de la FNOB, destacando la labor de la Fundación más allá de la Barcelona World Race: “Es un trabajo que constituye un modelo único en el mundo en la generación de ciencia y conocimiento: un modelo de compromiso para todas las regatas del mundo, ya que es fundamental alertar a la sociedad de lo que está pasando en este mar del que todos dependemos”.

Enlace proyectos:

Proyecto Citclops: CLOROFILA SUPERFICIAL

Proyecto Boyas ARGO
Proyecto FISIOLOGÍA Y NUTRICIÓN
Proyecto CAMBIOS METABÓLICOS DE ADAPTACIÓN AL ESTRÉS
Proyecto MICROPLÁSTICS Y CONTAMINANTES ORGÁNICOS
Proyecto SALINIDAD Y TEMPERATURA
Proyecto EL SUEÑO

http://www.abc.es/deportes/vela/vela-oceanica/abci-deporte-y-ciencia-colaboracion-provechosa-y-necesaria-para-ambos-201606082004_noticia.html

On January 30th 2016, Elena Jurado from 1000001Labs participated in a full-day session to critically analyse the Maker Movement Manifesto, together with important actors of the maker ecosystem from Barcelona and Madrid. The main idea of the meeting was to provide a deep criticism of the nowadays validity of the Maker Manifesto. In short, the Maker Movement talks about the importance of the individuals to build their own solutions, mixing engineering-oriented pursuits such as electronics, robotics, 3-D printing, and more traditional activities such as metalworking, woodworking, and arts and crafts

The outcome of the meeting was the skeleton for a book edited by Convent de Sant Agustí called Deconstrucción del Manifesto Maker. Elena Jurado, research partner from 1000001 Labs, is the author of the APRENDER chapter from the book Deconstrucción del Manifesto Maker, which is going to be openly available in the next months.

We advocate that the maker movement has to evolve from a “Do-it-Yourself” perspective to a more cooperative, or “Do-it-Together” perspective. Sometimes, the maker spaces such as Hacklabs, Fablabs, etc., suffer from a philosophy centred exclusively in individual outcomes, and act without collaborating with other institutions. Many of those criticisms are brilliantly presented in Leah Buechley’s presentation (https://vimeo.com/110616469). We emphasize a criticism to the Maker actual Manifesto from an educational point of view, taking into account our experiences in dissemination of participatory science such as KdUINO. We hope that our contribution will help to reflect on the evolution of the Maker Movement.

• More information about the event is found in the link http://conventagusti.com/maker/deconstruim-el-manifest-maker/
• The chapter where we contributed, APRENDER, is found in https://www.slideshare.net/secret/ahJpvUpV7Ui8q
  

Una propuesta para “decidim.barcelona“.

Esta propuesta quiere ser una puerta de entrada a la ciencia ciudadana en centros educativos, y permitiría a los estudiantes participar en el proceso de investigación científica. Esta propuesta incluiría una plataforma tecnológica con la que los estudiantes pueden compartir datos (recogidos, por ejemplo, en forma de fotos en su dispositivo móvil, o con sensores acoplados al teléfono inteligente o con sensores existentes en las escuelas) referentes, inicialmente, a problemáticas ambientales: contaminación atmosférica, calidad del agua, residuos y biodiversidad. A través de la misma plataforma, otros ciudadanos pueden visualizar y analizar los datos resultantes y colaborar en la búsqueda de soluciones. La plataforma sirve para estimular los procesos de investigación e innovación en estudiantes y a concienciar estudiantes y otros ciudadanos en las problemáticas ambientales en su entorno inmediato.

Esta propuesta ha sido concebida con el fin de involucrar a estudiantes de secundaria con la ciencia ciudadana. La propuesta consiste en el desarrollo de una plataforma tecnológica que incluye también smartphones y aplicaciones inteligentes, y que permite al estudiante recoger, compartir y analizar datos de su entorno. Los datos resultantes se usarán en colaboración con centros de investigación y formarán parte de la base de datos de monitorización de la administración local. La plataforma está dirigida a centros educativos.

La plataforma se basará en el trabajo realizado en proyectos europeos para la recogida de datos de calidad de agua y también se basará en otras plataformas existentes de código abierto (por ejemplo, iNaturalist [http://www.inaturalist.org/] para recoger datos sobre biodiversidad, CITI-SENSE [http://www.citi-sense.eu/] para calidad del aire, Desembasura [http://www.desembasura.org/] para residuos), así como en el estado del arte de los centros educativos en este ámbito (ver Figura 1).

La innovación técnica de la propuesta recae en unir datos heterogéneos recogidos por los estudiantes y que éstos sean validados y analizados, en la personalización de la plataforma tecnológica y en el desarrollo del engagement para que los estudiantes estén motivados a utilizarla. En esta línea se propone desarrollar técnicas de gamificación, que se ha visto pueden beneficiar de manera importante el proceso de aprendizaje.

Figura 1. Ejemplo de recogida de datos ambientales en escuelas de Barcelona

Un importante beneficio social y educativo de la propuesta es fomentar la figura del estudiante como parte del proceso de ciencia ciudadana; no un mero receptor de información, sino un sujeto activo, creador y analizador de información en colaboración con otros estudiantes. Beneficios ambientales de la propuesta derivan en cambio de la concienciación de estudiantes alrededor de problemáticas como calidad del agua, calidad del aire, residuos y biodiversidad, y de la consecuente contribución a la recogida y análisis de datos ambientales, complementando la actividad actual de monitorización de las administraciones.

En julio de 2016, esta propuesta ha sido aceptada y ha quedado incluida en la siguiente actuación:

Impulsar Barcelona com a capital europea de la recerca i el coneixement

In recent years marine observation based on volunteer participation, an example of citizen science, has provided environmental data with unprecedented resolution and coverage. The citizen-science–based approach has the additional advantages of engaging people, raising awareness and increasing knowledge of marine environmental problems. The technological advances in embedded systems and sensors enable citizens to create their own devices (do-it-yourself -DIY- technologies) for monitoring the marine environment. Within the context of the Citclops project [www.citclops.eu], a DIY instrument mounted on a buoy was developed to monitor changes in water transparency as a water-quality indicator. The instrument, named KdUINO, is based on quasi-digital sensors controlled by an open-hardware (Arduino) board. The sensors measure light irradiance at different depths and the instrument automatically calculates the Kd light diffuse attenuation coefficient, to quantify water transparency. Several workshops in high schools were carried out to show the students how to construct their own buoy. Some of them used the buoy to develop their own scientific experiments. Furthermore, in order to engage students more motivated in artistic disciplines, the authors developed a sonification system that allows creating music and graphics using KdUINO measurements as input data.

Piera, J., Bardají, R., Simon, C., Ceccaroni, L., Eznarriaga, L., Tejeda A., Velickovski, F., Steblin, A. and Pous, M.

Innovative technologies (DIY instruments and data sonification) for engaging volunteers to participate in marine environmental monitoring programs

Poster

2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Cosponsored by: AGU, ASLO and TOS

New Orleans, USA

24.02.2016