Скачать или смотреть Week 1 - Action Spotlight: Community based environmental monitoring

In this video, you heard from Professor Mel Woods, who shared some of the collaborative activities that the citizen observatories part of the WeObserve project have been involved in.

Community-based environmental monitoring is when groups of people or communities collect information to create new knowledge. These people can be in the same geographic location or spread all over the world. In many cases, these activities use personal devices or sensors, like apps on a mobile phone, to help people collect and upload the data online.

There is also often a collaborative feature to the online platforms. For example, they might use chat forums so that people can discuss the data they are collecting, how they are doing it, and what they are discovering from their activities.

Some projects encourage people to get together. For example, if a community in the same geographic area is collecting information on an environmental issue experienced locally, they can have weekly “meet-ups” where they discuss the challenges they face or share exciting insights or news.