Participation in citizen science: Drivers and barriers for sharing personally-collected weather data via web-platforms

Proceedings of the International Conferences on ICT, Society and Human Beings 2015, ICT 2015, Web Based Communities and Social Media 2015, WBC 2015 and Connected Smart Cities 2015, CSC 2015 - Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 63-70

  Gharesifard, Mohammad ^a   Wehn, Uta ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Citizen observatories; Citizen science; Data sharing; ICT enabled citizen participation; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DECISION MAKING; METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATORIES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WEBSITES;

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION; CITIZEN SCIENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; DATA SHARING; ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCES; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84966600337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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