Citizen science is a term used for a project (or ongoing programme of work) which aims to make scientific discoveries, verify scientific hypotheses, or gather data which can be used for scientific purposes, and which involves large numbers of people, many of whom have no specific scientific training.
Citizen science projects are often run by scientific institutions, research NGOs, or educational establishments; they usually attract participants through a combination of recuiting among their membership, advertisements and media coverage.
The idea is most widespread in North America; citizen science projects take place in many other countries, for example in the UK, although the term is not in common usage there. World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west...
Citizenscience is a participatory process for including all sectors of society - general public, government and industry - in the development and conduct of public-interest research in order to bridge the gaps between science and the community and between scientific research and policy, decision-making and planning.
CitizenScience is one of five themes in the Coastal CRC and is integral to the integration of activities within the study areas where the CRC is working with stakeholders in the application and implementation of the science.
Citizenscience is founded on a set of guiding principles for effective and inclusive participation and partnerships to achieve sustainability.
citizen, member of a state, native or naturalized, who owes allegiance to the government of the state and is entitled to certain rights.
Citizens may be said to enjoy the most privileged form of nationality; they are at the furthest extreme from nonnational residents of a state (see alien), but they may also be distinguished from nationals with subject or servile status (e.g., slaves or serfs; see serf, slavery).
Although the Constitution of the United States, as written in 1787, uses the word citizen and empowers Congress to enact uniform naturalization laws, the term was not defined until the adoption (1868) of the Fourteenth Amendment, which gave citizenship to former fl slaves.
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