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Article: News

Making the most of crowdsourcing campaigns

20 May 2022
In recent years, crowdsourcing, which involves recruiting members of the public to help collect data, has been tremendously helpful to provide researchers with unique and rich datasets, while also engaging the public in the process of scientific discovery. In a new study, an international team of researchers explored how crowdsourcing projects can make the most effective use of volunteer contributions.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

IIASA recognizes outstanding research contributions

10 May 2022
IIASA recently instituted a new system of awards to recognize outstanding contributions towards meeting the strategic priorities and values of the institute. We are proud to announce that five IIASA research activities have been recognized in the inaugural 2022 award cycle.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF) Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
Article: News

Identifying global poverty from space

05 May 2022
Despite successes in reducing poverty globally in the last two decades, almost one billion people are still living without access to reliable and affordable electricity, which in turn negatively affects health and welfare, and impedes sustainable development. Knowing where these people are is crucial if aid and infrastructure are to reach them. A new IIASA-led study proposes a novel method to estimate global economic wellbeing using nighttime satellite images.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
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Use your cellphone to improve weather forecasts

17 March 2022
Ahead of World Meteorological Day, you can help improve weather forecasting models with CAMALIOT, an infrastructure and app that uses GPS from smartphones to support scientific research. Join our crowdsourcing campaign on 17 March 2022  ̶  any person with access to an Android cellphone is invited to download the free app and participate.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Crowdsourcing data to monitor progress on the SDGs

25 November 2021
Monitoring progress on our way to successfully achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is key to their achievement, but there are significant data gaps that make this crucial exercise difficult. A new IIASA-led study explored the use of a citizen science tool known as Picture Pile to see how it could contribute to SDG monitoring.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Global partnership to support citizen science for the SDGs

04 October 2021
The Global Citizen Science Partnership is a network-of-networks that aims to advance the use of citizen science to support the monitoring and implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Are we on track to end world hunger?

27 August 2021
IIASA researchers have contributed to a study that provides a new model to monitor and predict food insecurity in the coming decade. It finds that while overall global levels of food insecurity are set to decrease an increase is implied for lower income countries.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
Article: News

To achieve the SDGs, we need better data

04 June 2021
IIASA researchers have contributed to a new global campaign that illustrates the centrality of data to sustainable development with a project that uses citizen science to monitor marine litter in Ghana for official UN Sustainable Development Goals reporting.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

New oil palm map to inform policy and landscape-level planning

30 March 2021
IIASA researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce a map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand that will help policymakers and other stakeholders understand trends in oil palm expansion to inform landscape-level planning.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Indonesia Malaysia Thailand
Article: News

Advancing the science of citizen science

12 January 2021
Citizen science is increasingly incorporated in research projects, as it has proved extremely effective in many aspects of research from collecting data to verifying information from remote sensing data in the field. A new book on citizen science offers practical support for implementing projects and addresses emerging topics around citizen science and artificial intelligence.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Harnessing the power of crowd-driven artificial intelligence

07 January 2021
The European Research Council (ERC) will fund the development of an innovative platform incorporating the IIASA crowdsourcing game Picture Pile. IIASA Strategic Initiatives Program Director Steffen Fritz will lead the project.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Monitoring biodiversity and ecosystems in Europe

26 November 2020
IIASA is collaborating with 14 partner institutions from Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain on a new research project aimed at developing a transnational system for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystems in Europe.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Austria Estonia Germany Netherlands Portugal Spain United Kingdom
Article: News

Closing the gap: Citizen science to monitor sustainable development

03 July 2020
Citizen science could help track progress towards all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An IIASA-led study, for the first time, comprehensively analyzed the current and potential contribution of citizen science data to monitor the SDGs at the indicator level.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Earth Challenge 2020: Calling on citizens to help support global food supply

22 June 2020
IIASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) in partnership with the Wilson Center, the Earth Day Network and the US State Department are providing citizens with an opportunity to get involved in one of the world’s most challenging problems: how to provide enough, high quality, nutritious food to the ever expanding global population.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) United States of America
Article: News

SAS and IIASA call for crowd-driven artificial intelligence to help track deforestation

21 April 2020
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, SAS and IIASA join forces to transform crowdsourced knowledge into actionable intelligence to help protect the planet.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Sustainable Service Systems (S3)

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