Motivation – Citizen Science Today

Editor’s Choice: What are the prospects for citizen science in agriculture? Evidence from three continents on motivation and mobile telephone use of resource-poor farmers

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:00:46 +0000

Agricultural workers have long been collecting data on the natural world, but opening up opportunities for farmers to share information raises questions about who would participate and why. This study is unusual for involving farmers in developing countries as potential stakeholders in citizen science, for whom participation may be meaningfully connected to livelihood. While most farmers...

Editor’s Choice: Environmental Protection and Agency: Motivations, Capacity, and Goals in Participatory Sensing

Paul Aoki, Allison Woodruff, Baladitya Yellapragada, Wesley Willett — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:00:29 +0000

These computing researchers took a critical look at the current practice of citizen science with the goal of informing the development of tools and technologies. They asked two seemingly simple questions: what drives people to participate, and what are productive ways for people to participate? In the analysis, I particularly like the nuanced understanding of...