OSR177 Community Edition: Perspectives on Citizen Science from Ecuador, Africa and Small Island Developing States [EN]

We have the pleasure to present to you another Community Edition of
Open Science Radio, this time kindly provided by Claudia Göbel. So
this episode brings together three experiences of doing research in
cooperation between people from inside and outside academic
institutions in different settings in the global South: - How can
Citizen Science build on traditions of participatory research in
Latin America? Soledad Luna has pushed Citizen Science activities
for research and conservation in Ecuador. - What is Africa OSH and
how is it related to Europe? Thomas Mboa works on open and
participatory research, DIY biology and cognitive justice with the
Association for the Promotion of Open Science in Haiti and Africa
(APSOHA) and MboaLab. - What challenges are involved in getting
rare data for monitoring climate change? Khalissa Ikhlef looks
after the Sandwatch project for beach monitoring in Small Island
Developing States (SIDS) and coastal countries at UNESCO. This
podcast is the edited recording of the “Story Café” workshop that
was held as preconference event to the international conference on
Citizen Science in June 2018 in Geneva. The workshop was realized
by Claudia Göbel as part of her work for the European Citizen
Science Association, which organized the conference, in the context
of the EU-funded project “Doing-it-Together science” (2016-2019).
We hope these stories can be more than just tokens in a
structurally unequal conversation and inspire others to share their
experiences, listen closer and critically interrogate the global
nature of knowledge production, research policy as well as our very
personal role within them.