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Open science, as a common good, opens possibilities for the development of nations, through innovations and collaborative constructions, which help to democratize knowledge. Advances in this area are still emerging, and the open science, cocreation of knowledge and open innovation [...]

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This article describes and analyzes the collaborative design of a citizen science research project through cocreation. Three groups of secondary school students and a team of scientists conceived three experiments on human behavior and social capital in urban and public spaces. [...]

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The purpose of this research is to assess the current state of citizen science projects and reveal the role of volunteers in the research process. This is achieved by performing a literature review and content analysis of three international and one state-owned citizen science platforms [...]

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21st century science has recruited amateurs and aficionados as a workforce to undertake large projects. Citizen science shows a large variety of models that can produce knowledge. Citizen science supposedly represents a democratic shift and as a result experts and expertise have been [...]

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There is growing concern that MSP is not facilitating a paradigm shift towards democratic marine management and that it may simply repackage old power dynamics in the rhetoric of participation. MSP has been advanced using the logic of 'rationality' and 'post-political' forms of planning [...]

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OpenStreetMap (OSM, https://www.openstreetmap.org) is currently the largest, richest, most complete and most up-to-date open geospatial database as well as the most participated crowdsourced geographic information project in the world. While it was initially started (in 2004) with [...]

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The Digital Age points to the need for an Open Communicology, an applied science of the commons that recognizes the centrality of the subsumption of intellectual work, exploring the decoloniality of knowledge-power from the opening of spaces for cooperation and appropriation of knowledge. [...]