1. The Open Seventeen Crowdsourcing Sustainable Development Rosy Mondardini Community & Partnerships Citizen Cyberlab

2. 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.

3. Tackling the Global Goals using Open Data & Crowdsourcing
The Open Seventeen
Tackling the Global Goals using Open Data & Crowdsourcing

4. 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…

5. The Challenge – what CITIZENS do1 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. .

6. The Challenge – what PARTNERS do1 2 3
CHOOSE
Select the most promising pitches.
COACH
Online coaching sessions from pitch to demo.
PROMOTE
Raise awareness in international events. .

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. openseventeen.org
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