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Reflections on the potential of virtual citizen science platforms to address collective action challenges: Lessons and implications for future research
NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences ( IF 2.4 ) Pub Date : 2018-08-31 , DOI: 10.1016/j.njas.2018.07.008
Cees Leeuwis 1 , K.J. Cieslik 1, 2 , M.N.C. Aarts 3, 4 , A.R.P.J. Dewulf 2 , F. Ludwig 5 , S.E. Werners 5 , P.C. Struik 6
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Rural communities in Africa are facing numerous challenges related to human health, agricultural production, water scarcity and service delivery. Addressing such challenges requires effective collective action and coordination among stakeholders, which often prove difficult to achieve. Against the background of the increased availability of information and communication technologies (ICTs), this article synthesizes the lessons from six case-studies reported in this Special Issue. The cases investigate the possible role of digital citizen science platforms (labelled EVOCAs: Environmental Virtual Observatories for Connective Action) in overcoming the challenges of integrating heterogeneous actors in collective management of common resources and/or the provision of public goods. Inspired by the seminal work of Elinor Ostrom, our expectation was that such platforms could help operationalize communication and information-related design principles and community conditions that are known to enhance the capacity to address environmental challenges.

This article presents some cross-cutting insights and reflections regarding the nature of the challenges identified by the diagnostic studies, and on the relevance and significance of Ostrom’s framework and analysis. It also reflects on the plausibility of our original ideas and assumptions by assessing what the various studies tell us about the significance and potential of key components of an EVOCA-type intervention: i.e. environmental monitoring, ICT, connective action, citizen science and responsible design. At the same time, we draw lessons for follow-up research and action in our research program and beyond by identifying several issues and themes that merit further investigation.

Based on the case-studies, we conclude that many collective action challenges are of a more complex nature than originally anticipated, and often cannot be resolved within clearly demarcated communities. While this complicates the realization of Ostrom’s communication and information-related design principles and community features, there may still be a meaningful role for digital citizen science platforms. To help address complex challenges, they must be oriented towards fostering adaptive and systemic learning across interdependent stakeholder communities, rather than focusing on the self-betterment of the communities alone. Such digital platforms need to be developed in a responsible manner that ensures complementarity with already existing patterns of communication and ICT-use, that anticipates dynamics of trust and distrust among interdependent stakeholders, and that prevents typical problems associated with the sharing of information such as privacy infringement and undesirable control over information by outsiders.



中文翻译:

关于虚拟公民科学平台应对集体行动挑战的潜力的思考:教训和对未来研究的启示

非洲农村社区面临着与人类健康,农业生产,水资源短缺和服务提供有关的众多挑战。应对这些挑战需要利益相关者之间采取有效的集体行动和协调,而这通常很难实现。在信息和通信技术(ICT)可用性不断提高的背景下,本文综合了本期特刊中报​​道的六个案例研究的经验教训。这些案例研究了数字公民科学平台(标记为EVOCA:环境虚拟观察站,用于结盟行动)在克服将异质参与者整合到公共资源的集体管理和/或公共物品提供中所面临的挑战。受Elinor Ostrom的开创性工作启发,

本文就诊断研究确定的挑战的性质以及Ostrom框架和分析的相关性和重要性提供了一些跨领域的见解和反思。通过评估各种研究告诉我们关于EVOCA型干预措施的关键组成部分的重要性和潜力,即环境监测,ICT,结社行动,公民科学和负责任的设计,它还反映了我们原始思想和假设的合理性。同时,我们通过确定一些值得进一步研究的问题和主题,在我们的研究计划中以及其他方面为后续研究和行动吸取教训。

根据案例研究,我们得出的结论是,许多集体行动挑战的性质比最初预期的要复杂得多,而且通常无法在明确界定的社区内解决。尽管这使Ostrom的通信和信息相关设计原理以及社区功能的实现变得复杂,但数字公民科学平台仍可能扮演着有意义的角色。为了帮助应对复杂的挑战,它们必须面向相互依赖的利益相关者社区,促进适应性和系统性学习,而不是仅仅关注社区的自我建设。必须以负责任的方式开发此类数字平台,以确保与现有的通信和ICT使用模式相辅相成,

更新日期:2018-08-31
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