The Citizen Cyberscience Centre Blog

  • Ciencia Ciudadana in Madrid

    The last weekend the Citizen Cyberscience Centre in collaboration with Medialab-Prado, Ibercivis, the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Citizen Cyberlab project and Socientize organized a citizen science hackfest in Madrid. The first day we have some ta...

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  • Citizen Cyberscience Hackfest at University of Geneva

    The 22 and 23 of April the University of Geneva hosted a two days hackfest around Citizen Science. The first day, several experts give a talk about different technologies used in the field of Citizen Cyberscience like: Christian Pellegrini and Basti...

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  • Volunteer Sensing and Thinking

    Nowadays citizen scientists have a plethora of smartphone tools that can be used to record data samples using the built-in sensors: video, sound, pictures, GPS locations, and even barometric sensors. Citizens are invited to take data points in their...

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  • Mozilla Firefox OS App Days and Crowdcrafting.org

    Last Saturday, the 26th of January, Mozilla held in parallel all over the world a hack day, the #FirefoxOSAppDay,  about creating new web applications for their new FirefoxOS mobile OS and the desktop web browser (this stills in beta and alpha mode!...

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  • Medialab Prado

    The 19th of December of 2012 the Citizen Cyberscience Centre was presented at the Medialab Prado in Madrid, Spain. Medialab-Prado is a program of the Department of Arts of the City Council of Madrid, aimed at the production, research, and disseminati...

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  • Feynman’s Flowers: citizen science on the molecular scale

    Researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) in collaboration with the Citizen Cyberscience Centre* – a partnership between CERN, the UN Institute for Training and Research and the University of Geneva - are inviting members of th...

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  • Hurricane Hackers NYC

    “What we need most, is for you guys not to forget us in two weeks time”. Comment from a Breezy Point houseowner on what help his family really needed from volunteers.” This event is about using citizen science to have a positive im...

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  • World Science Day – November 10th

    The World Science Day for Peace and Development was established by UNESCO in 2001, and is celebrated worldwide on the 10th of November each year. “This annual event was instigated as follow-up to the World Conference on Science , organized jo...

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  • Go on a particle quest at the first CERN hackfest

    ISGTW| AUGUST 15, 2012 From 3-5 August, CERN played host to its very first hackfest. Organised by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre (CCC) and the Peer 2 Peer University, the 2012 CERN Webfest saw pizza-fuelled summer students hacking their...

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  • Why a Citizen Cyberscience Centre?

    The Web is ushering in a new age of public participation in science. Projects such as SETI@home searching for extraterrestrial intelligence,LHC@home simulating CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, and GalaxyZoo cataloguing millions of astronomical images...

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