The discussion forum here will provide you with access to an internal space to gather with the CSI-COP community of citizen scientists. Your learning from CSI-COP’s informal education course (MOOC) can be discussed in this forum. A thread has been created for each of the five steps in the course about ‘Your rights to privacy online’. You can post your views and learn other citizen scientists’ answers to the activities in each step. Access will require log-in. However, no personal information will be requested for log-in. This is in accordance with CSI-COP’s philosophy of preserving privacy and no-tracking.
Profile: jagold
I have a strong academic and extensive empirical background. As a ‘numerate’ anthropologist, I has conducted many large scale and smaller household poverty surveys and numerous long term and short term evaluations across government and community projects and programmes covering a wide range of development topics. As such I am fully aware of data concerns around reliability, validity and sharing of data (accessibility). I am dedicated to participatory research with a strong focus on gender and on youth. I work extensively on human development and well-being and the interconnections between humans and their environment. My most recent research is on citizen science and narrowing the divide between science and society through appropriate and cost effective technology with the aim of achieving a more just society. I use the concept of the living lab which is about the co-creation of knowledge and the emancipatory nature of research. I am Associate Professor Extra-Ordinary in the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of the Western Cape a position that is held under the UNESCO Chair for Groundwater and Society
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