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Collaboration and Performance of Citizen Science Projects Addressing the SDGs

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Measuring the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires the collection of relevant and reliable data. To do so, Citizen Science can provide an essential source of non-traditional data for tracking progress towards the SDGs, as well as generate social innovations that enable such progress. At its core, citizen science relies on participatory processes involving the collaboration of stakeholders with diverse standpoints, skills and backgrounds. The ability to measure these participatory processes is therefore key for the monitoring and evaluation of citizen science projects and to support the decisions of their coordinators. In this article, we ask whether the monitoring of social interaction networks can inform on the participatory processes and outcomes of citizen science projects addressing the SDGs. We studied fourteen early-stage citizen science projects that participated in an innovation cycle focused on Climate Action, as part of the Crowd4SDG project. We implemented a monitoring strategy to measure the collaborative profiles of citizen science teams. This allowed us to generate dynamic interaction networks across multiple complementary dimensions, informing on the division of labor, collaborations, advice seeking and communication processes of the projects during their development. Leveraging jury evaluation data, we showed that while team composition and communication are associated with project quality, measures of collaboration and activity engagement are associated with participation processes. Overall, we exhibit the relevance of monitoring social interaction dynamics for guiding early-stage citizen science projects, which is of importance for initiatives leveraging Citizen Science to address the SDGs.
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hal-03808080 , version 1 (10-10-2022)

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Camille Masselot, Rathin Jeyaram, Raphael Tackx, Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, François Grey, et al.. Collaboration and Performance of Citizen Science Projects Addressing the SDGs. 2022. ⟨hal-03808080⟩

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