Moustard, F;
Haklay, M;
Lewis, J;
Albert, A;
Moreu, M;
Chiaravalloti, R;
Hoyte, S;
... Artus, D; + view all
(2021)
Using Sapelli in the Field: Methods and Data for an Inclusive Citizen Science.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
, 9
10.3389/fevo.2021.638870.
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Abstract
The Sapelli smartphone application aims to support any community to engage in citizen science activities to address local concerns and needs. However, Sapelli was designed and developed not as a piece of technology without a context, but as the technical part of a socio-technical approach to establish a participatory science process. This paper provides the methodological framework for implementing and using Sapelli in the field. Specifically, we present the role of Sapelli within the framework of an “Extreme Citizen Science” (ECS) methodology that is based on participatory design. This approach enables Sapelli’s users to decide, with the help of professional scientists, which challenges they wish to address, what data to collect, how best to collect and analyse it, and how to use it to address the problems identified. The process depends on the consent of participants and that the project is shaped by their decisions. We argue that leaving ample space for co-design, local leadership and keeping Sapelli deployment open-ended is crucial to give all people, and in particular non-literate people who we have found are often the most ecologically literate, access to the power of the scientific process to document and represent their concerns to outsiders in a way that all can understand, and to develop advocacy strategies that address the problems they identify.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Using Sapelli in the Field: Methods and Data for an Inclusive Citizen Science |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fevo.2021.638870 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.638870 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 Moustard, Haklay, Lewis, Albert, Moreu, Chiaravalloti, Hoyte, Skarlatidou, Vittoria, Comandulli, Nyadzi, Vitos, Altenbuchner, Laws, Fryer-Moreira and Artus. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). |
| Keywords: | citizen science (CS), Extreme Citizen Science, participatory design, Sapelli, non-literate people, indigenous communities |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10132284 |
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