Data4Good: Citizen Science and Open Data for Social Impact

Data4Good: Citizen Science and Open Data for Social Impact

How can we create more social impact with smart use of data by citizen initiatives, non-profits, international NGOs and the public sector?

How can we explore new solutions more strategically in order to solve challenges that really matter? How does this apply to the context of developing countries, and can open data accelerate progress on the SDGs? How can citizens engage in collecting and processing data in order to create social impact?

Our speakers from the Citizen Cyberlab in Geneva and Citizen Science Center in Zurich will share their experience from projects that digitized the entire League of Union archives (the predecessor to the UN), connected 3 million computers into a virtual supercomputer that discovered a potential application of carbon nanotubes to create clean water, or developing the world’s largest, low-cost strong-motion seismic network by utilizing sensors and Internet-connected computers.

After the presentations, there will be short but interactive parallel workshops to engage with each other on some specific questions around citizen science and open data, followed by an open networking space.

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MakeSense Barcelona and TeamLabs, in collaboration with the Citizen Cyberlab (CERN, University of Geneva, UNITAR), the Citizen Science Center Zurich (ETH and University of Zurich), and Oxfam are organizing this event for the Barcelona ecosystem around open and participatory data to gather, share ideas and knowledge, co-create new potential projects, and identify key leverage points to support and strengthen the movement.

Speakers:

• Rosy Mondardini, Managing Director at the Citizen Science Center, University of Zurich
• Jose Luis Fernandez Marquez, Senior Lecturer at the Citizen Cyber Lab, University of Geneva
• Regina Gallego, Head of Innovation at the Department of Development Cooperation at Oxfam Intermón
• Daniel Hires, Social Innovation Catalyst, MakeSense Berlin/Barcelona