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Digital Citizen Science for Responding to COVID-19 Crisis: Experiences from Iran
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has so far been the most severe global public health emergency in this century. Generally, citizen science can provide a complement to authoritative scientific practices for responding to this highly complex biological threat and its adverse consequen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8472744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34574591 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189666 |
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author | Vahidi, Hossein Taleai, Mohammad Yan, Wanglin Shaw, Rajib |
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description | The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has so far been the most severe global public health emergency in this century. Generally, citizen science can provide a complement to authoritative scientific practices for responding to this highly complex biological threat and its adverse consequences. Several citizen science projects have been designed and operationalized for responding to COVID-19 in Iran since the infection began. However, these projects have mostly been overlooked in the existing literature on citizen science. This research sheds light on the most significant online citizen science projects to respond to the COVID-19 crisis in Iran. Furthermore, it highlights some of the opportunities and challenges associated with the strengths and weaknesses of these projects. Moreover, this study captures and discusses some considerable insights and lessons learned from the failures and successes of these projects and provides solutions to overcome some recognized challenges and weaknesses of these projects. The outcomes of this synthesis provide potentially helpful directions for current and future citizen science projects—particularly those aiming to respond to biological disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-84727442021-09-28 Digital Citizen Science for Responding to COVID-19 Crisis: Experiences from Iran Vahidi, Hossein Taleai, Mohammad Yan, Wanglin Shaw, Rajib Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has so far been the most severe global public health emergency in this century. Generally, citizen science can provide a complement to authoritative scientific practices for responding to this highly complex biological threat and its adverse consequences. Several citizen science projects have been designed and operationalized for responding to COVID-19 in Iran since the infection began. However, these projects have mostly been overlooked in the existing literature on citizen science. This research sheds light on the most significant online citizen science projects to respond to the COVID-19 crisis in Iran. Furthermore, it highlights some of the opportunities and challenges associated with the strengths and weaknesses of these projects. Moreover, this study captures and discusses some considerable insights and lessons learned from the failures and successes of these projects and provides solutions to overcome some recognized challenges and weaknesses of these projects. The outcomes of this synthesis provide potentially helpful directions for current and future citizen science projects—particularly those aiming to respond to biological disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic. MDPI 2021-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8472744/ /pubmed/34574591 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189666 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Vahidi, Hossein Taleai, Mohammad Yan, Wanglin Shaw, Rajib Digital Citizen Science for Responding to COVID-19 Crisis: Experiences from Iran |
title | Digital Citizen Science for Responding to COVID-19 Crisis: Experiences from Iran |
title_full | Digital Citizen Science for Responding to COVID-19 Crisis: Experiences from Iran |
title_fullStr | Digital Citizen Science for Responding to COVID-19 Crisis: Experiences from Iran |
title_full_unstemmed | Digital Citizen Science for Responding to COVID-19 Crisis: Experiences from Iran |
title_short | Digital Citizen Science for Responding to COVID-19 Crisis: Experiences from Iran |
title_sort | digital citizen science for responding to covid-19 crisis: experiences from iran |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8472744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34574591 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189666 |
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