On co-authorship and “the crowd”
After reading @WinniePoncelet 's thoughts, @Amelia and I thought to make this post part of the ethnographic coding. The role of citizens in citizen science is super-interesting, and it is part of a larger discussion on the role of communities in care, or any activity that involves “the crowd”. @markomanka wrote in the OpenCare proposal that “the crowd is often considered a rightless volunteer”. In science, citizens are only supposed to provide the data, but rarely process them or interpret them. In policy, they are supposed to be stakeholders and express desired and suggest ideas, but rarely to then execute them.
What does everybody think? If you are interested in the government side of things, I remind you we have a specific challenge: https://edgeryders.eu/en/policies-of-care