The University of Edinburgh, together with a consortium of thirteen partners from the UK, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands and Ireland are embarking on a €8.5 million (US$11 million) project, called Citizen Observatory Web (COBWEB), which aims to make it easier for citizens to collect environmental data for research, decision making and policy formation by leveraging on crowdsourcing technology.
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It will leverage crowdsourcing techniques around the concept of “people as sensors”, particularly the use of mobile devices for data collection and geographic-referenced information.
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Meanwhile, Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA , said: “This work aims to enable the citizen to use the Mobile Internet to benefit the Earth in a direct and obvious way, locally and therefore globally.
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