Science Hack Day London - March 16th, 2013 - Crowdcrafting Citizen Science

Come and join other citizen scientists, humanities folks, technologists, designers, students, scientists, and all who are curious for a day of Crowdcrafting Citizen Science.

We’ll be hacking together apps and projects with various open tools such as Epicollect, PyBossa, and CernVM.

THE DETAILS

• WHAT: Science Hackday focused on building volunteer crowdsourcing apps using theCrowdCrafting platform and mobile data collection using EpiCollect
• WHEN: Saturday 16th March 2013, 11am – 7pm
• WHERE: Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, WC1X 9NG, London - just down the road from King's Cross Station. Nearest tube is King's Cross.
• WHO: Anyone from curious citizens to journalists, tech-geeks to scientists, designers to data wranglers.
• COSTS: Lunch, drinks and caffeine are on us - but we do welcome any small donations to help cover the costs.
•  STUFF: Don’t forget to bring all of your own kit: laptops, mobiles, and any other fun hardware you have knocking about.

THE SCHEDULE

1. We’ll start the day with a number of “Pitches” to set some challenges for the day, but you are welcome to bring your own idea along, or make one up on the fly.
2. We’ll invite you to ‘team-up’ around the ideas you’d like to help make happen, but feel free to ‘vote with your feet’ and join other teams at any stage of the day.
3. We’ll help folks match-make around skill sets as we go along.
4. At the end we’ll do a show and tell to see what folks came up with.
5. We will provide support for any teams who’d like to continue working on their projects or apps beyond the event!

REGISTRATION: http://science-hackday-march-2013.eventbrite.com/#

Event Website: http://okfn.org/events/science-hackday-march-2013/ 

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Citizen Science is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur or nonprofessional scientists, often by crowdsourcing data collection, problem solving & thinking. Formally, citizen science has been defined as "the systematic collection and analysis of data; development of technology; testing of natural phenomena; and the dissemination of these activities by researchers on a primarily avocational basis". Citizen science is sometimes called "public participation in scientific research."

Citizen Cyberscience leverages digital tools, mobile technologies and the web to involve citizen around the globe in the ‘formulating’ and ‘doing’ of Science.

Crowdcrafting tools provide online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition, knowledge or intelligence such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more.

Open Science means many things, but primarily scientific knowledge that people are free to use, re-use and distribute without legal, technological or social restrictions.

ABOUT THE ORGANISERS

 
The OKF Open Science Group - founded in 2009 as the Working Group on Open Data in Science to promote the open availability of scientific data, and now called the Open Science Working Group to include other aspects of open science, such as open access and citizen science. You can read more in ourOpen Science Overview.

The Citizen Cyberscience Centre -established in 2009  as a partnership between CERN, the UN Institute for Training and Research and the University of Geneva, the Centre promotes the use of citizen science on the Web, develops open source tools and projects for citizen cyberscience, and organizes events that promote citizen cyberscience around the globe. http://www.citizencyberscience.net/ .

The Citizen Cyberlab - launched in 2012 is building tools and platforms for Citizen Science, as well as researching the creativity and learning aspects of participatory science from Volunteer Data-collecting to  Volunteer Thinking, all the way up to Volunteer Project-design. www.citizencyberlab.eu

ABOUT THE SPONSORS

 
Sloan Foundation - Established in 1934, the Foundation makes grants in support of original research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economic performance. http://www.sloan.org/

The Citizen Cyberlab - launched in 2012 is building tools and platforms for Citizen Science, as well as researching the creativity and learning aspects of participatory science from volunteer data-collecting all the way up to volunteer project-design. www.citizencyberlab.eu