The CILAC Forum is holding a new colloquium with leaders from the region, focused on the role of citizen science as an essential element of the development of Open Science. Since its launch, more than 27 thousand people have been part of the colloquiums of the #CienciaEnMovimiento cycle of CILAC.
Citizen and participatory science is configured as a collaboration and inclusion strategy of Open Science, through which the participation of new social agents in scientific processes is promoted. In this way, we contribute to a greater democratization of knowledge, in the fight against misinformation, systemic inequalities and the concentration of knowledge and power.
The quality of the participation of social agents, which characterizes open science, is reflected in citizen and participatory science experiences, which generates new models of scientific research, with a high degree of social interaction and impact. This requires inspiring awareness of citizen involvement in the processes of knowledge production, not passively as only beneficiaries, but actively, in the path of agenda definition and scientific production.
In this new virtual meeting of CILAC, and after a successful colloquium held in September on Open Science policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, the focus will be placed, precisely, on citizen science as a critical factor for the development of open science. Thus, we go beyond the exclusive cloister, and the map of knowledge actors is enriched with new agents, new logics, new interests, new languages, new knowledge. The complexity is denser, the results are more relevant.
What is the importance of promoting the incorporation of citizen science as an essential element of open science policies and practices? What are the biggest challenges for the installation of platforms for the exchange and joint creation of knowledge between the scientific community and society? How to overcome the gaps between scientific knowledge, empirical knowledge and ancestral knowledge? How to articulate the different logics? What experiences can be identified in this sense?
Sarita Albagli (Brazilian Institute for Research in Science and Technology IBICT), Julio Gaitan (ISUR Internet and Society Center, Universidad del Rosario) and Guillermina D'Onofrio (Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Argentina) address these issues, moderated by Guillermo Anllo (UNESCO).
25 OCT – 5 p.m. (URU/ARG/BRA) – sign up here to receive a notification about the start of the meeting and other activities of the CILAC Forum