PADI Master Instructor Katy Bloor is quoted saying “our customers want to be able to sign more petitions, campaign more, write to their Ministers of Parliament, but they wouldn’t know where to start. They have loved being able to sign the current shark petition, but it has left them and me hungry for more opportunity to do some good”. No doubt, @projectaware will go some way towards filling that space...but is there another way?
Danielle Vention of EGEE talks about the new age of Citizen Science…how emerging technologies are enabling everyday people to contribute to scientific research and projects they are passionate about.
”We are entering an age where all types of people can also contribute to many types of information. A school bus driver in rural Romania may be part of a biomedical research project. Or a banker in Los Angeles might moonlight as a collaborator in an astronomy project – classifying galaxies in her spare time”
You can read the full article here, but could we, divers, citizens of the sea, not do the same?
What do you think?
What prevents you from getting more involved?
What needs to happen to make it easy to get more involved?
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