[MUSIC] In this video, we're going to look at another approach how we can gather information on local indicators of climate change impacts worldwide through citizen science. So let me first explain the general concept of citizen science. In the broad sense, citizen science, we mean when we have public participation in scientific research. That means lay people participate in some aspect of the research. To make a citizen science project kind of a lot of benefits, one would be that you could scale up certain aspects. For example, data collection or data processing, which could mean labelling of images or other data. It could also help to raise awareness. So one area where citizen science was a big success was biodiversity monitoring. So instead of just having a few researchers collecting data, collecting information species. Nowadays, you have a lot of people worldwide who go into the wild spot species, endangered species, or new species, or just species they want to share with. And usually use the mobile app and post them online. And you also have a lot of people who identify species that are unknown to the people who collect them. And this greatly helped biodiversity monitoring. And also it raised awareness a lot about invasive species or species who are endangered. So in literally, we also developed citizen science platform and it's called OpenTEK, which stands for open traditional ecological knowledge. With this, we focus on two main aspects. One is the use and management of agrobiodiversity. So plants and their usage in different forms. And of course, the local indicators of climate change impacts. And at the moment, we're just looking at climate change. So they're actually now three types of information, three types of sources from which we have entries on the platform. First, our local observations. So local observations are really the entries which anybody can make without even registering on the platform. And it only takes around 5 to 10 minutes. Very easy. The second one is article reviews. So we looked at more than 200 scientifically scientific publications which are period of youth. And basically, from these also we created the first version of the litchi tree, the classification tree. And all these article entries on the platform as well. And the third type are the field studies. So we collaborated with researchers worldwide. And they use the protocol that we described earlier to make field studies to study the indicators on specific locations. So all of them, all of these three types have describe local indicators of climate change impacts. But the local observation on includes one impact and others may include many more. But actually OpenTEK is not restricted to only these three types. So in the future, we plan to include maybe how people adapt to climate change. Or people might actually come up with their own types of surveys, introduce them to the platform and have other people collect the data. It also includes a very flexible licensing and privacy settings. So actually you can decide who can see or edit your entries. And also you can decide on the licenses. So we are using the creative common licenses. Since we also want to collect data worldwide, we have a very strong language support. So the platform can actually translated on the platform itself. And this allows us to have the system, have only a few surveys translated to a new language. And then allow data collected in this new language. No one doesn't need to translate the whole thing. At the moment, we actually have English, Spanish, and also cut on. We're also working on a version of the platform in order to work with indigenous people. And one very important thing working with indigenous people is that they remain data sovereignty about the data that they put into such a platform. So in order to guarantee indigenous data sovereignty, we are following the CARE principles. CARE principles are developed by GIDA, which is the Global Indigenous Data Alliance. And it's basically a concept to complement the FAIR principles, which are principles for sharing data. However, with the CARE principles, we the indigenous people can remain social how people use their their data and guarantees that the social protocols are followed. In another video, we're going to look in depth at the platform when you look how to create an account, how to explore the data, and how to create a local observation. [MUSIC]
