1 Environmental Research Institute, North Highland College, University of the Highlands and Islands, Thurso, United Kingdom, 2 Reef Check Australia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4 Remote Sensing Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queenslan...

This paper introduces the ongoing MyFinder project, which was launched in October 2010. The goals of this project are: (1) to propose an intimate personal genome information environment, MyFinder, which supports the search for our inborn talents and maximizes our potential for a meaningful life; and (2) to contribute to scientific discoveries in the biomedical or psychological research domains ...

Road traffic has severe effects on animals, especially when road-kills are involved. In many countries, official road-kill data are provided by hunters or police; there are also road-kill observations reported by citizen scientists. The aim of the current study was to test whether road-kill reports by hunters stem from similar landscapes than those reported by citizen scientists. We analysed th...

For large companies, offshore sourcing is rapidly becoming a prerequisite for competing. But for small companies, it is generally assumed that the incremental per-worker savings associated with offshore sourcing are likely to be outweighed by the cost and risk of establishing an offshore operation. Nonetheless we found four European SMEs that have not only succeeded offshore, but gained access ...

Emerging forms of empowered participatory governance have generated considerable scholarly excitement, but critics continue to ask if such initiatives are “for real”: Are participatory governance processes sufficiently independent? Do citizen participants make good policy choices? An in-depth look at the case of the British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform suggests that real citi...

Introduction This workshop discusses three distinct but related topics. The first topic is citizen science which involves volunteers all around the world generating data to address scientific problems and recently led to breakthroughs in the natural sciences. Citizen science typically involves volunteers playing online games while unknowingly solving real scientific problems. This approach can ...

This paper introduces a conceptual framework for research on citizen science, a form of collaboration involving scientists and volunteers in scientific research. Designing CSCW systems to support this type of scientific collaboration requires understanding the effects of organizational and work design on the scientific outcomes of citizen science projects. Initial directions for future research...

Naḥūm was a Kurdish Jewish prophet who lived in northern Syria the period of Assyrian conquests and internecine wars over 2,500 years ago. Part Naḥūm’s long poem, which is Kurdish-Persian genre Shāḥnāma has since been included canonized Hebrew Bible. The first chapter Book Naḥūm, henceforth Section I song praise (panegyric) introducing main protagonist – this case HaShem. II III carry on with n...

The Medical Information System (MedISys) is a fully automatic 24/7 public health surveillance system monitoring human and animal infectious diseases and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats in open-source media. In this article, we explain the technology behind MedISys, deJens P. Linge Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Institute for the Protection and Sec...

Citizen science changes the way scientific research is pursued. It opens up data collection and analysis to the general public, to the wisdom of crowds. In this emerging area, there is much research to be done to better understand how we can develop citizen science infrastructure and continue the democratization of science. In creating such systems, there is much we can learn from principles th...