Force majeure impact on citizen science: Perspective from an EU funded project.

Open research Europe Pub Date : 2025-03-03 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.12688/openreseurope.19184.1
Huma Shah, M Pocs, J Vallverdu, M Hinsenkamp, Tiberius Ignat, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet
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Background: Management of citizen science engagement during a force majeure needs very careful consideration in order not to lose precious time. This paper serves as a guide for pro-action in the event of another virus-enforced stay-at-home, movement-control order and presents necessary changes undertaken by an international collaboration during a once-in-a-hundred years' pandemic that reduced face-to-face public interactions. Overcoming challenges imposed under force majeure conditions, a citizen science project funded under the EU Horizon2020 research and innovation scheme SwafS15-2019, rethought experiential learning through volunteering screen time.

Methods: Mitigation measures, to limit the handicap of moving to online working reducing potential for learning through synchronous live engagement, included creation of an interactive multilingual informal five-step learning resource (CSI-COP MOOC: 'Your Right to Privacy Online'), adapting Greenpeace's 'Big Plastic Count' to an online 'Big Cookie Count' event, as well as webinars organised by project partners in their local language, Newsletters, provided opportunities for the general public to gain vital knowledge about protecting personal data and preserving online privacy.

Results: Over one-hundred and ninety members of the public who completed CSI-COP's MOOC with a certificate, participated in one-to-one online 'walk through' training sessions in local languages joined the project, through GDPR-compliant written informed consent, as citizen scientists. The acquisition of practical skills by these individuals enabled investigations of websites they visited and apps they used to record third-party cookies or third-party requests for personal data.

Conclusions: The effective reorganisation of CSI-COP activities to online, then hybrid once COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, ensured the expected deliverables were produced. Citizen scientists' contributions realised a searchable Repository of investigated websites and apps, a Taxonomy of tracking cookies, two policy briefs on improving monitoring of GDPR compliance, and Guidelines to address the 'legitimate interest' principle used by third parties to gather personal data online.

不可抗力对公民科学的影响:来自欧盟资助项目的视角。
背景:不可抗力期间公民科学参与的管理需要非常仔细的考虑,以免浪费宝贵的时间。本文为应对新冠肺炎疫情下的居家隔离和行动控制提供了指导,并介绍了在百年一遇的疫情中,国际合作所做的必要改变,减少了面对面的公众互动。为了克服不可抗力条件下的挑战,欧盟地平线2020研究与创新计划SwafS15-2019资助的公民科学项目通过志愿屏幕时间重新思考体验式学习。方法:缓解措施,以限制转向在线工作的障碍,减少通过同步现场参与学习的潜力,包括创建交互式多语言非正式五步学习资源(CSI-COP MOOC):“你的隐私权在线”),将绿色和平组织的“大塑料计数”转变为在线“大饼干计数”活动,以及由项目合作伙伴以当地语言组织的网络研讨会,为公众提供了保护个人数据和维护网络隐私的重要知识的机会。结果:超过190名公众成员通过符合gdpr的书面知情同意书,以公民科学家的身份加入了CSI-COP的MOOC项目,并获得了证书,参加了一对一的当地语言在线“演练”培训。这些人获得的实用技能使他们能够调查他们访问过的网站和他们用来记录第三方cookie或第三方对个人数据请求的应用程序。结论:有效地将CSI-COP活动重组为在线,并在COVID-19限制解除后进行混合,确保了预期交付成果的产生。公民科学家的贡献实现了一个被调查网站和应用程序的可搜索存储库,一个跟踪cookie的分类法,两个关于改进GDPR合规监测的政策简报,以及解决第三方在线收集个人数据使用的“合法利益”原则的指导方针。
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