Finding meaningful participation in volunteer geographic information and citizen science: a case comparison in environmental application

摘要: ABSTRACTVolunteer geographic information (VGI) and citizen science (CS) have been used as a way to promote form of democratization knowledge. Crowdsourcing facilitates the massive collection data through nonexpert volunteers. This study compares 57 VGI CS projects cross-case comparison method explore level involvement participants, based on three main analytic dimensions (project rationale, actor interaction, flow) 12 sub-variables. The primary goal this research is analyze purpose role technology in projects, using matrices emerging trade-offs. Finally, we synthesized workflow project compared purposes. At end study, five purposes were found among selected uncovering that most common purpose. A general can be conceptualized, but detail implementation will involve various trade-offs, especially between local i...