An intercontinental project that bridged citizen science, open data, open source hardware, civic hacking and the Internet of things to monitor, share and map radiation data?
As part of this project, 60 citizen journalists from rural communities in the provinces of Preah Vihear, Mondulkiri and Ratanakir are being trained in reporting, writing, editing, investigative journalism and human rights.
Tiffany Braggs, 44, said she had never owned or fired a gun before she signed up for The Armed Citizen Project in Houston after her condominium management board warned residents of growing crime.
The endpoint of the project was devised by both citizen and professional scientists working with Sage.
"We see this as kind of a pure win-win relationship, " says Ranalli, who is also trying to forge partnerships with other organizations, such as watchdog groups Public Citizen and the Project on Government Oversight.
"Participation with environmental science and natural history has a long history, especially in Britain, long before it was termed 'citizen science', " project leader Dr Helen Roy, an ecologist from the CEH, told BBC News.
The research project sends the data to NOAA where researchers compare the anonymous citizen-reports to official radar images.
Once a week, take them down -- whether it's to a soup kitchen or to volunteer on a community project -- teach them what it means to be a real citizen.
According to Cisco, the u-City project will help Busan to boost economic development, increase revenue, encourage citizen engagement, reduce city operations costs, support brownfield revitalization (many of the Smart Work Centers will be built on brownfields), and strengthen city operations management and social resiliency.
This fit into their broader project, which was to form a government meant solely to preserve the conditions necessary for each citizen to live and enjoy his own life (via the protection of individual rights).
Still, 2013 might have been a better target for this project, once screenshots and gameplay with sound and a more complete look were ready and the Star Citizen hype had gone to ground.
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