On 7 March 2018 (2:00-3:00 PM CET), Eye on Earth is holding a webinar on "Introducing the Citizen Science Global Partnership".
Professional science alone cannot provide information at the scales and resolutions necessary to understand environmental change. The dominant culture of scientific expertise does not account for different ways of knowing, and often fails to engage the public. Citizen science emphasizes collaborative intelligence and co-creation to facilitate scientific and community-based solutions. To transform science there is a realistic target to engage 1 billion global citizens by 2020.
A new global citizen science secretariat was launched at the Science-Policy-Business Forum of the UN-Environment in December 2017. This network-of-networks will:
- Become a valued partner and coordinated point of entry for NGOs, governments, and businesses seeking to work with the global citizen science community.
- Network, support, and seed citizen science umbrella organizations, including the existing citizen science associations (ECSA, CSA, ACSA) and emerging networks.
- Network, support, and seed consortia of projects conducting similar research.
- Help catalogue, manage, and share open and interoperable data.
- Track the contributions of citizen science towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs).