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From Chengdu to Berlin: Commons Lab Citizen Science Activities in May. June 2, 2016. The Wilson Center's Commons Lab. May 2016 brought the Commons Lab to Chengdu, Sichuan Provence in the People’s Republic of China. We were completing the second workshop in a series on “Storytelling is Serious Business” for environmental Chinese NGOs, supported by the Ford Foundation via the China Environment Forum. Anne Bowser and Elizabeth Tyson in front of the poster advertising our talk at Sichuan University. The stud...
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Federal Citizen Science
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A Databse of Federal Crowdsourcing. And Citizen Science Projects. To provide the general public with a tool for discovering and learning more about federally sponsored citizen science and crowdsourcing projects. The current tool enables users to browse the inventory to identify projects of a particular type. Later versions will also allow users to search the dynamic map. How do you define crowdsourcing and citizen science? At the same time, a recent workshop held at the Wilson Center demonstrated the nee...
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Project Sidewalk Featured on UMD Homepage
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Project Sidewalk Featured on UMD Homepage. Published Jan 05, 2017. Is currently featured on the UMD homepage. This is some nice recognition at the university level about our work. Recent News from Jon. Froehlich Named Sloan Fellow. Feb 21, 2017 Jon. I am deeply honored to be named a Sloan Research Fellow. Along with my CS colleague Tom Goldstein. Read more at the CS. MakerWear Honored with Best Paper at CHI2017. Feb 17, 2017 Jon. We were just notified that MakerWear received the Best Paper award at CHI20...
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Congrats Dr. Kotaro Hara and Ladan Najafizadeh, MS
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Congrats Dr. Kotaro Hara and Ladan Najafizadeh, MS. Published Dec 21, 2016. Congratulations to Dr. Kotaro Hara and Ladan Najafizadeh for graduating with their PhD and MS degrees respectively. It was a tremendous honor to hood Kotaro as my first student and a pleasure to watch Ladan walk across the commencement stage knowing how hard she worked for her MS thesis. Here's a video of Dr. Kotaro Hara being hooded (direct link): https:/ youtu.be/FoCuAtR6V-A? Recent News from Jon. Froehlich Named Sloan Fellow.
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Governance
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EPA Offers up to $80,000 to Communities to Develop Air Sensor Data Best Practices. September 2, 2016. The Wilson Center's Commons Lab. By Ann Dunkin, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. SMART CITIES AIR CHALLENGE. Application Deadline: October 28, 2016. Announcement of Winners: Around December 1, 2016. Initial award: Up to $40,000 each to two communities to deploy air sensors, share data with the public, and develop data management best practices from sensors. The prize funds...
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Citizen Science
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EPA Offers up to $80,000 to Communities to Develop Air Sensor Data Best Practices. September 2, 2016. The Wilson Center's Commons Lab. By Ann Dunkin, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. SMART CITIES AIR CHALLENGE. Application Deadline: October 28, 2016. Announcement of Winners: Around December 1, 2016. Initial award: Up to $40,000 each to two communities to deploy air sensors, share data with the public, and develop data management best practices from sensors. The prize funds...
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Commons Lab
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EPA Offers up to $80,000 to Communities to Develop Air Sensor Data Best Practices. September 2, 2016. The Wilson Center's Commons Lab. By Ann Dunkin, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. SMART CITIES AIR CHALLENGE. Application Deadline: October 28, 2016. Announcement of Winners: Around December 1, 2016. Initial award: Up to $40,000 each to two communities to deploy air sensors, share data with the public, and develop data management best practices from sensors. The prize funds...
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Efforts underway to share project metadata
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Efforts underway to share project metadata. June 12, 2015. June 12, 2015. By The Wilson Center's Commons Lab. This post was first published on the Citizen Science Association’s blog: http:/ citizenscienceassociation.org/2015/06/11/efforts-underway-to-share-project-metadata/. Helps projects recruit volunteers. Supports professional networking between citizen science practitioners. Supports projects by providing a technical infrastructure for data management. We suggest that a common metadata structure wil...
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Foresight
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Reflections on the Federal Catalog of Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Projects. April 14, 2016. April 14, 2016. The Wilson Center's Commons Lab. This Blog Post is a collaboration between Anne Bowser, Sven Schade, Greg Newman, Claudia Göbel, Peter Brenton, and Darlene Cavalier. In conjunction with the sixth and final Science Fair hosted by President Barack Obama, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released citizenscience.gov. As outlined in a 2015 Memo. For citizen science, t...