Date
11:15 am—12:30 pm · June 13, 2024
Room
Lethaby Room
A backcasting workshop to spark new conversations and explore how developments in technology and civic participation will impact the future of citizen science. Discuss what might happen in the short to medium term future to enable decision makers and practitioners to develop more impactful and sustainable citizen science.

The facilitators have undertaken horizon scanning and reviewed emerging trends, exploring how technology will impact on the future of citizen science and the changing landscape of citizen participation. 

Building on this rapid review, a series of desirable futures for citizen science in the next five to ten years was developed: concepts of what could happen in the short to medium term future to enable decision makers and practitioners to develop more impactful and sustainable citizen science.