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Citizen Science for the 2030 SDG Agenda

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This GYA group was established as an Incubator in July 2018, and was promoted to working group status from July 2020. It aims to harness the potential of citizen science as an approach for increasing the GYA’s public engagement with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Leveraging citizen science is necessary for achieving the SDGs as highlighted by many organisations focused on data requirements for sustainable development, interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research projects and initiatives worldwide (such as the Open Seventeen platform, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Citizen Science Global Partnership, to name a few).

Although the SDGs have been discussed widely during the GYA’s Annual General Meeting in 2018, work by the GYA and its members in the SDG field could be better structured. There is also a need to raise awareness of the SDGs among young scientists, and to enhance the capacity of young scientists to contribute to the achievement and the monitoring of the SDGs.

 

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Ibrahim Sidi Zakari (Project Co-Lead)
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Anna-Maria Gramatté (Office Contact)
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For GYA members and alumni only: connect to the group, collaborate and discuss with other members on the GYA-internal Agora platform here.

 

This GYA Incubator has started work in July 2018.

Outcomes

2022

The group was working with a Research Assistant in 2021, who contributed to papers on emerging applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to crowdsourced data from health and transport sectors. Some of these results were then presented during an IEEE Conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (February 2022), and a paper has been published in the conference proceedings (IEEE Access Journal).

 

2021

Group members published Citizen Science for Transformative Air Quality Policy in Germany and Niger in Sustainability 2021/13 (https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073973), as part of their GYA 2019/20 Interdisciplinary Grant project. See here for details.

2020

In this video on “Harnessing the Data Revolution for reducing the impact of air pollution in Niger”, group lead Ibrahim Sidi Zakari (Niger) talks about his research and contribution to cleaner air in Niger, and also about the activities of the GYA Incubator.

See a detailed activities report here.

2019

February:

  • Group members participated in the setting up of a crowdsourced household energy use photos database (as part of bachelor students ICT course and hand-ons homework at Faculty of Science and Technics, Abdou Moumouni University). This activity registered 610 photos from 305 contributors and aims at monitoring access to affordable, clean and reliable energy services (SDG 7)  in Niamey, the capital of Niger.

January:

  • Participation in the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) “Transformers Roadshow Competition” in Niger. This international event dedicated to Science, Technology and Innovation promotes the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7.

2018

December:

  • Promotion of citizen science during the Niger Science Week (as part of the Next Einstein Forum Africa Science Week)

November:

  • Training Workshop on Citizen Science, Open Data and UN SDGs for 60 Bachelor Students from the Faculty of Sciences and Technics (Abdou Moumouni University). This activity has been conducted as part of the Scientific and Cultural Week’s activities.
  • Photos competition on science and sustainable development to introduce Abdou Moumouni University students to the concept of citizen science as a mean of collecting, disseminating data and information in a collaborative manner. Photos needed to be linked with one or several of the 17 SDGs.
  • Public Conference (at Abdou Moumouni University) as part of the UNESCO World Science Day for Peace and Development. The theme for 2018 was “Science, a Human Right”, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and of the Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers.

September:

  • Participation in the 1st edition of the ReSAKSS Data Challenge. A self-graded data literacy quiz (which integrates some aspects of the UN SDGs) has been proposed and is available here.

August:

  • Group members were involved in the identification of Niger National Priorities (targets and indicators) for the implementation of the SDGs and data gaps from the national voluntary review of  June 2018.

 

    Summary
    Activity Status: Ongoing
    GYA Activity type: Working Groups
    Established in 2018
    Leads & Contact
    Co-Lead
    Ibrahim Sidi Zakari
    Co-Lead
    Jia Chen
    Office Contact
    Anna-Maria Gramatté
    Active Members
    Renard Siew
    Dipak Pinjari
    Sophie Carenco
    Tyrone Grandison
    Rothsophal Nguon
    Stefan Kohler
    Akihiro Kishimura
    William Godsoe
    Robert Lepenies
    Malan Ketcha Armand Kablan
    Udi Sommer
    Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo
    Anet Režek Jambrak
    Carina Geldhauser
    Followers
    Arya Shalini Subash
    Lalit Khandare
    Jovana Milić
    Leila Niamir
    Sandra Lopez-Verges
    Past Members
    Koen Vermeir
    Abdeslam Badre
    Mimi Haryani
    Abel Polese
    Isil Kurnaz
    Mirabbos Hojamberdiev
    Paul Mason
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