Activating social strategies: Face-to-face interaction in technology-mediated citizen science

Cappa, Francesco; Laut, Jeffrey; Nov, Oded; Giustiniano, Luca; Porfiri, Maurizio

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.07.092

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“…The citizens should be actively involved in these collaborative interactions, because users' appreciation of, and commitment to, urban change is almost always essential to smart initiatives' success [63]. Effective collaborative interactions between startups/entrepreneurs, scientists and citizens [69][70][71] allow for viable, distributed experimentation on concrete city-level needs [64]. Universities are expected to support and/or directly participate in these networks, thus activating the so-called triple helix (university, industry and government) [72].…”

Section: The Smart City As An Organizational Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

2017

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Despite the impressive growth of smart city initiatives worldwide, an organizational theory of smart city has yet to be developed, and we lack models addressing the unprecedented organizational and management challenges that emerge in smart city contexts. Traditional models are often of little use, because smart cities pursue different goals than traditional organizations, are based on networked, cross-boundary activity systems, rely on distributed innovation processes, and imply adaptive policy-making. Complex combinations of factors may lead to vicious or virtuous cycles in smart city initiatives, but we know very little about how these factors may be identified and mapped. Based on an inductive study of a set of primary and secondary sources, we develop a framework for the configurational analysis of smart cities viewed as place-specific organizational fields. This framework identifies five key dimensions in the configurations of smart city fields; these five dimensions are mapped through five sub-frameworks, which can be used both separately as well as for an integrated analysis. Our contribution is conceived to support longitudinal studies, natural experiments and comparative analyses on smart city fields, and to improve our understanding of how different combinations of factors affect the capability of smart innovations to translate into city resilience, sustainability and quality of life. In addition, our results suggest that new forms of place-based entrepreneurship constitute the engine that allows for the dynamic collaboration between government, citizens and research centers in successful smart city organizational fields.

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Section: The Smart City As An Organizational Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

2017

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“…The results from panel analysis and sample selection model are consistent [22,23]. Therefore, we could conclude that the sample size used in the regression analysis is large enough.…”

Section: The Romanian Research System-between Communism Ruins and Glomentioning

confidence: 53%

The Role of Knowledge Intensive Business Services on Romania’s Economic Revival and Modernization at the Regional Level

Buṣu

Bușu

2017

Sustainability

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Knowledge intensive business services have recently become one of the most important themes addressed by researchers in the field. Their interest in such a subject is due primarily to the impact they have in terms of growth rate, especially for the economies of emerging countries. The literature in the field brings a series of persuasive arguments about the role that these services have both at national and regional levels. In this paper, the authors make a radiography of the Romanian research system which is passing through a transition phase from the ruins of communism to the challenges of globalization. Moreover, the authors analyse the role of performance-based services in Romania's regional development in correlation with the economic growth target at the national scale. Quantitative methods used during the present paper highlight the disparities between Romania's geographic regions in terms of technological development and research. In addition, the econometric model developed in the study emphasizes the cohesion degree corresponding to the European Union Member States.

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“…We found that the availability of a web-system encouraged a large and diverse population of volunteers to report observations and to stay retained as observers. In CA we observed a gradual downward trend in rates of observation, which could be related to a persistent drought in California (i.e., causing declines in wildlife) or the level of engagement with volunteers, such as with face-to-face interactions, which are important for volunteer engagement (Cappa et al, 2016). We also found that the rates of identification-accuracy were high at the species level, which may be related to the high rate of involvement of professional scientists in our systems.…”

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Large Extent Volunteer Roadkill and Wildlife Observation Systems as Sources of Reliable Data

Waetjen

Shilling

2017

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Large-extent wildlife-reporting systems have sets of goals and methods to facilitate standardized data collection, statistical analysis, informative visualizations, and use in decision-making within the system area. Many systems employ "crowds" of volunteers to collect these data at large spatial extents (e.g., US state or small country scale), especially along roadways. This raises the important question of how these systems could be standardized and the data made broadly useful in ecological and transportation studies, i.e., beyond the system area or goals. We describe two of the first and longest-running systems for volunteer observation of road-associated wildlife (live and dead) at the US state scale. The California Roadkill Observation System (CROS, http://wildlifecrossing.net/california) uses a form-based data entry system to report carcasses resulting from wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC). Operating since 2009, it currently (June, 2017) contains 1,338 users and >54,000 observations of 424 species of ground-dwelling vertebrates and birds, making it one of the most successful examples of crowd-sourced, roadkill and wildlife reporting. Its sister system, the Maine Audubon Wildlife Road Watch (http://wildlifecrossing.net/maine) has a similar structure, and can accept data from transect surveys, animal tracks and scat observations, and reports of "no animal observed." Both systems can operate as web-applications on a smart-phone (using a web browser), providing the ability to enter observations in the field. Locational accuracy for California observations was estimated to be ±14 m (n = 552 records). Species identification accuracy rate for observations with photographs was 97% (n = 3,700 records). We propose that large extent, volunteer systems can be used to monitor wildlife occurrences along or away from roads and that these observations can be used to inform ecological studies and transportation mitigation planning.

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Activating social strategies: Face-to-face interaction in technology-mediated citizen science

Cited by 67 publications

References 79 publications

Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

The Role of Knowledge Intensive Business Services on Romania’s Economic Revival and Modernization at the Regional Level

Large Extent Volunteer Roadkill and Wildlife Observation Systems as Sources of Reliable Data

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