Diagnosis and roadmap for an open science policy in Argentina.

The following specialists have participated in the preparation of this report: Members of the Advisory Committee on Open and Citizen Science of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINCYT), Argentina. Coordination: Fernanda Beigel (CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo) Members: Valeria Arza (CONICET; CENIT-EEYN-UNSAM) Paola Azrilevich (SNRD - Biblioteca Electrónica de Ciencia y Tecnología, MINCyT) Dominique Babini (CLACSO) Paula Cramer (CONICET - MINCyT) Humberto Debat (IPAVE-CIAP-INTA) Marisa De Giusti (UNLP y Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas) Fernando Ariel López (CITRA, CONICET-UMET) Alejandra Nardi (Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología, UNC) Cecilia Rozemblum (UNLP) Maximiliano Salatino (INCIHUSA-CONICET/UNCUYO) Hebe Vessuri (Inv. Emérita del IVIC, Caracas e Inv. Colaboradora del CIGA - UNAM, México) Mariano Zukerfeld (Agencia I+D+i , CONICET) And external specialists: Carlos Authier (CAICYT) Ma. Luján Blanco (MINCyT) Ma. Guillermina D'Onofrio (MINCyT) Alejandro Dujovne (CONICET, EIDAES-UNSAM) Agustín Espejo (UNCuyo) Diego Ferreyra (CAICYT) Laura Rovelli (CONICET, UNLP, FOLEC-CLACSO) Ma. Sol Terlizzi (FLACSO/UNLaM) Edition: Fernanda Beigel, Dominique Babini, Paula Cramer, Ma.Lujan Blanc

Citizens, Science and A Changing Bay (2015 State of the Bay Presentation)

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Science communication from undergraduate students to children: activities, opportunities and challenges

Science is the engine of society’s development and the promotion of scientific literacy is very important not only to engage new generations in the world of science but also to make scientific concepts more clear, accessible and appealing to non-expert citizens. Science education should start as early as possible, awakening children to critical observation of the surrounded environment and the scientific thought. The most effective and successful way seems to be through experimental activities, which in turn should be provided as soon as possible.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Towards initiating OpenLandMap founded on citizens’ science: The current status of land use features of OpenStreetMap in Europe

Ponencias, comunicaciones y pósters presentados en el 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science "Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place", celebrado en la Universitat Jaume I del 3 al 6 de junio de 2014.Land use inventories are important information sources for scholarly research, policy-makers, practitioners, and developers. A considerable amount of effort and monetary resources have been used to generate global/regional/local land use datasets. While remote sensing images and techniques as well as field surveying have been the main sources of determining land use features, in-field measurements of ground truth data collection for attributing those features has been always a challenging step in terms of time, money, as well as information reliability. In recent years, Web 2.0 technologies and GPS-enabled devices have advanced citizen science (CS) projects and made them user-friendly for volunteered citizens to collect and share their knowledge about geographical objects to these projects. Surprisingly, one of the leading CS projects i.e., OpenStreetMap (OSM) collects and provides land use features. The collaboratively collected land use features from multiple citizens could greatly support the challenging component of land use mapping which is in-field data collection. Hence, the main objective of this study is to calculate the completeness of land use features to OSM across Europe. The empirical findings reveal that the completeness index varies widely ranging from almost 2% for Iceland to 96% for Bosnia and Herzegovina. More precisely, more than 50% of land use features of eight European countries are mapped. This shows that CS can play a role in land use mapping as an alternative data source, which can partially contribute to the existing inventories for updating purposes

Information needs for environmental policy making : some orientations for the future

Chapter 12Recent good practice has highlighted the need for evidence-based policy in all fields, including that of the environment (1). There is an ongoing need for reliable information to inform the policymaking process. A strong evidence-base also contributes to more robust design and assessment of policy options. In the environmental field, the putting in place of environmental monitoring processes and the regular publication of state of the environment reports have contributed significantly to providing a better evidence base for policy. The EU-funded ERDF project has played an important role in upgrading national environmental monitoring programmes, and further related projects also addressing particular thematic areas in the environmental field are planned for the next structural funding period up to 2020. This paper puts forward a set of orientations for the future to be taken into account in order to improve the evidence base to support national environmental policy-making processes, including the monitoring of existing policies, now that the data from the ERDF monitoring project is becoming available. The basis of the analysis is the authors’ work on monitoring the implementation of the National Environment Policy and previously on state of the environment reporting.peer-reviewe

Science for society

Chapter 8 presents an introduction and sections on: education and outreach in an interdisciplinary environment; science with and for the citizens; open communication and responsible citizens; science and ethics; the limits of scienc

After the SKA - Radio Astronomy in 2049

The concept of a Square Kilometre Array was developed to ensure that progress in Radio Astronomy in the early 21st Century continued at the same impressive pace as was achieved during the first 50 years. The SKA telescope is designed to pave that road to greater and greater sensitivity. So what technical challenges does the project face and what key innovations will drive the success of the SKA? What will the next Radio Astronomy mega-science project look like? In this article the author discusses the likely avenues of progress in the coming decades and comments on the status of radio astronomy in 2049 - the author's 70th (and presumably her retirement) year.Comment: Conference Proceedings PoS(RTS2012), 8 pages, 1 figur

ADAPTIVE CO-MANAGEMENT OF URBAN FORESTS: MONITORING REFORESTATION PROGRAMS IN MEXICO CITY.

Aiming to maintain or increase the indispensable socio-ecological benefits provided by urban forests, cities of the world have adequate urban forestry to take advantage of new technologies and political arrangements. Cooperation among different actors has become a trend to address urban forests’ most pressing management issues, such as reforestation monitoring and the creation of tree inventories. This management approach has been conceptualized as adaptive co-management (ACM) in European and North American cities. Intending to advance the academic efforts to understand ACM, this article presents a spatial and statistical analysis of the distribution of trees monitored in Mexico City. The analysis indicated that the number of urban trees monitored is very low and inequitably distributed in the city. The implementation of ACM for environmental management of the urban forest, using the participatory tool of Naturalista. The tool demonstrated to have much potential in the operationalization of inclusive reforestation programs, particularly in monitoring urban trees recently planted. The implementation of ACM and citizens' science programs are discussed and recommended as a promising urban environmental management approach

An Architecture for Integrated Intelligence in Urban Management using Cloud Computing

With the emergence of new methodologies and technologies it has now become possible to manage large amounts of environmental sensing data and apply new integrated computing models to acquire information intelligence. This paper advocates the application of cloud capacity to support the information, communication and decision making needs of a wide variety of stakeholders in the complex business of the management of urban and regional development. The complexity lies in the interactions and impacts embodied in the concept of the urban-ecosystem at various governance levels. This highlights the need for more effective integrated environmental management systems. This paper offers a user-orientated approach based on requirements for an effective management of the urban-ecosystem and the potential contributions that can be supported by the cloud computing community. Furthermore, the commonality of the influence of the drivers of change at the urban level offers the opportunity for the cloud computing community to develop generic solutions that can serve the needs of hundreds of cities from Europe and indeed globally.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure