The Open Seventeen Crowdsourcing Sustainable Development Rosy Mondardini Community & Partnerships Citizen Cyberlab
What is Citizen Cyberlab? “Rethinking Public Participation” We initiate projects and organize events that encourage citizens and scientists to collaborate in new ways and solve big challenges.
Tackling the Global Goals using Open Data & Crowdsourcing The Open Seventeen Tackling the Global Goals using Open Data & Crowdsourcing
The Open Seventeen Challenge Challenge citizens to develop projects that use open data and the help of the crowd to track progress towards the SDGs ✚ Open data Satellite images, government data, photo archives, published contracts… Crowdsourcing Volunteer data classification, pdf data extraction, image geotagging…
The Challenge – what CITIZENS do 1 2 3 FIND A DATA SET Find or suggest a set of pertinent open data in any format. DEFINE YOUR GOAL Propose a clear, realistic goal for how to apply crowdsourcing to the data. PITCH YOUR IDEA Pitch the project with a description of how it will impact the SDGs. .
The Challenge – what PARTNERS do 1 2 3 CHOOSE Select the most promising pitches. COACH Online coaching sessions from pitch to demo. PROMOTE Raise awareness in international events. .
Coaching Empower citizens (small organizations, civil society organization, NGOs) with the tools necessary to: transform ideas into high quality and high impact crowdsourcing projects have impact on governments and decision makers inspire more action. Knowledge Ensure data quality, credibility of results, and impact at the policy level. Support Offer open crowdsourcing technologies - web platform and smartphone apps
Partners An academic initiative for strengthening the ability of institutions and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively and legitimately to make better decisions. An open-source software company focused on crowdsourcing tools, developing the web-based platform Crowdcrafting for professionals and institutions. An international advocacy organization of nearly 7 million people taking social action on poverty, preventable diseases, gender equality and transparency.
Selected projects FIRST ROUND: 2015 SECOND ROUND: 2016 Street guide to sustainable businesses access to generic medicines for specific diseases in Latin America. SECOND ROUND: 2016 Crowdmapping sexual violence in India Monitoring the use of water resources in Nigeria Track the extent of poverty Mapping renewable sources of energy enabling civil-society-led SDG monitoring Putting rural Tanzania on the map. Study the use of land in the Philippines.
Special call on Goal 11 - Cities Mapping food markets in cities to promote sustainable and healthy cities Sampling and monitoring air quality in Santiago and Geneva with wearable open source air detectors Monitoring the international reconstruction work in Gaza Tracking visual changes of land development in Oakland Reducing food waste in Paris with a crowd- managed refrigerators Mapping and monitoring the use green space in London
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