Citizen Science: What is in it for the Official Statistics Community?

The Community-Conservation Conundrum: Is Citizen Science the Answer?

Public participation theory assumes that empowering communities leads to enduring support for new initiatives. The New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy, approved in 2000, embraces this assumption and includes goals for community involvement in resolving threats to native flora and fauna. Over the last 20 years, community-based ecological restoration groups have proliferated, with between 600 and 4...

What is Ethics of Science and Technology?

Background: The existence of crises and problems such as non-compliance with standards and professional ethics in the field of engineering and technology, and existence of fraud and misuse in the field of science has resulted in importance of ethics in the science and technology. But the fact is that there is no accurate understanding of the ethics of science and technology, and this field is o...

What Is Citizen Science?--A Scientometric Meta-Analysis.

CONTEXT The concept of citizen science (CS) is currently referred to by many actors inside and outside science and research. Several descriptions of this purportedly new approach of science are often heard in connection with large datasets and the possibilities of mobilizing crowds outside science to assists with observations and classifications. However, other accounts refer to CS as a way of ...

Community-oriented medical education: what is it?

The pressing need for this communication has emerged from the author's experience in conducting educational workshops, seminars and meetings for the orientation of health professionals in community-oriented medical education. Many questions are raised and many statements made which clearly indicate that the term 'community-oriented medical education' (COME) is still misunderstood. It carries a ...

health communication what it is and what is not