How Networks of Citizen Observatories Can Increase the Quality and Quantity of Citizen-Science-Generated Data Used to Monitor SDG Indicators

There is a growing acknowledgement that citizen observatories, and other forms of citizen-generated data, have significant role in tracking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. This evident increasing number Goals’ indicators for which such data are already being used high-level recognition potential science can play. In this article, we argue networks observatories will help realise potential. Drawing on Cos4Cloud project as an example, highlight how make more interoperable accessible (among qualities), their impact usefulness. Furthermore, other, perhaps overlooked, advantages data: educating informing scientists about Goals co-creating solutions to global challenges they address.