Participatory Mapping – a brief introduction

Muki Haklay, professor at Unviersity College London, Team leader of the Citizen Science team at the Learning Planet Institute, gave a training on "Particpatory mapping - a brief introduction" to the ECS Academy network of researchers training series 2024. 

The network of researchers for citizen science (NR4CS) is a network developed as part of the European Citizen Science Academy, and moderated and coordinated by Université Paris Cité, UPCité/Learning Planet Institute and Marie Curie Alumni Association, MCAA. 

Muki Haklay presentation is of 31 slides and covers the following topics: 

1. Participatory planning/ decision making
2. Participtory mapping: personal context
3. Synopsis
4. From participatory mapping to citizen science
5. Engagement: Free, Prior Informed Consent (FPIC)
6. Participatory software design - introducing the application Sapelli
7. Training and support
8. Data collection
9. A set of guiding principles
10. Work with communities
11. Context: society, technology, politics
12. Directed, but open, process
13. Go where people are
14. Keep it very simple
15. Aiming for assertive inclusiveness
16. ArcGIS Online and Survey123
17. Open Data Kit (ODK)
18. Sapelli
19. Platforms for Citizen Science
20. Open Access book. 

This power point was used as part of a training for the network of resaerchesr for citizen science as part of the ECS Academy. You can find the recorded version of the training here.