New research to map the diversity of citizen-generated data for sustainable development – Open Knowledge International Blog

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-08-13

Summary:

"We are excited to announce a new research project around citizen-generated data and the UN data revolution. This research will be led by Open Knowledge International in partnership with King’s College London and the Public Data Lab to develop a vocabulary for governments to navigate the landscape of citizen-generated data. This research elaborates on past work which explored how to democratise the data revolution, how citizen and civil society data can be used to advocate for changes in official data collection, and how citizen-generated data can be organised to monitor and advance sustainability. It is funded by the United Nations Foundation and commissioned by the Task Team on Citizen Generated Data which is hosted by the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD). Our research seeks to develop a working vocabulary of different citizen-generated data methodologies. This vocabulary shall highlight clear distinction criteria between different methods, but also point out different ways of thinking about citizen-generated data. We hope that such a vocabulary can help governments and international organisations attend to the benefits and pitfalls of citizen-generated data in a more nuanced way and will help them engage with citizen-generated data more strategically...."

Link:

https://blog.okfn.org/2018/08/13/new-research-to-map-the-diversity-of-citizen-generated-data-for-sustainable-development/

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oa.new oa.data oa.un oa.okfn oa.citizen_science oa.crowd oa.development oa.metadata oa.semantic oa.open_science oa.stem oa.environment oa.interoperability oa.surveys

Date tagged:

08/13/2018, 13:04

Date published:

08/13/2018, 09:04