As part of the EU project Ground Truth, to set up citizen observatories, the municipality where the eco-village I am engaged in is the site for a campaign to explore how citizen involvement can improve understanding and decision making around the water cycle.
Citizen science is on the increase. Using their own observations and mobile devices, citizens can provide a new data stream of local information about their environment, complementing existing systems and data sources.
Ground Truth 2.0 is a 3-year EC funded project that is setting up and validating six citizen observatories in real conditions, in four European and two African demonstration cases. The project is demonstrating that such observatories are technologically feasible, can be implemented sustainably and that they have many societal and economic benefits. The ultimate objective is the global market uptake of the concept and the enabling technologies.
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Stephen Hinton Consulting 