The Rise of Citizen Science.
The article discusses the public participation in scientific research, or citizen science, which involves the use of crowdsourcing to gather data for scientific research. The author looks at the use of citizen science in the field of ornithology, evidenced by Cornell University's Ornithology Lab. To...
| Published in: | Futurist Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 25 - 31 |
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World Future Society
Jul/Aug2013
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