Accessible Citizen Science for the Developing World Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/citizen-science-developing/ Astronomy for a better world! Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:05:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Accessible Citizen Science for the Developing World Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/citizen-science-developing/ 32 32 Final Report https://astro4dev.org/update-12/ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:05:54 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=14394 Zooniverse projects are mostly built to deadlines by, and for, people who use browsers on high speed connections in Western Europe and North America. This has created a bias over the years that has lead to an mostly Englishspeaking volunteerbase and a skew away from lowbandwidth compatibility and nonstandard accessibility. Put simply: the Zooniverse has not historically paid attention to accessibility or to international [...]

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]]> The ‘Retinas’ Project and PEEK https://astro4dev.org/the-retinas-project-and-peek/ Tue, 08 Dec 2015 11:35:24 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18320  In seeking out a new Zooniverse project to focus the efforts of this grant we initially looked for something astronomical in nature. It was hard though to find anything with a astronomical science case, or research goal, that was uniquely connected to the developing world, and to science that would have the most impact there [...]

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]]> Overview of the project https://astro4dev.org/overview-of-the-project-35/ Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:32:02 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=9543 Project title: Accessible Citizen Science for the Developing World Project leader: Dr. Robert Simpson The Zooniverse (http://www.zooniverse.org) has excelled at producing engaging, high-quality citizen science websites that produce peer-reviewed scientific research, especially in astronomy (http://www.zooniverse.org/publications). Our teams work predominantly in the USA and UK and the majority of our 860,000-strong volunteers are situated in the [...]

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