The Department of Mines and Resources agreed to fund the project, and citizens proceeded to lay a new road as far as the river, beginning in 1913.
Everyone thinks the country is richer than it really is, so politicians spend a fortune on pointless prestige projects, and citizens clamour for handouts.
However, GeoNetwork's COBWEB developments do not only contribute just to the COBWEB project and the citizen science community, and that is another benefit of the FOS model.
Damage to underground infrastructure during construction results in undesirable consequences to contractors, project owners and citizens.
Second, volatile aid flows reduce rather than build recipient governments' ability to implement projects and manage citizens' expectations about public service delivery which could exacerbate instability and weaken the legitimacy of new governments at the exact moment when a new 'social contract' is urgently needed [ 11].
To collect more teeth and continue the study, called the Tooth Fairy Project, local scientists and citizens are seeking $60,000 from Suffolk and Westchester Counties.
Today's offerings run the gamut from polished shows on radio and television and full-scale documentary films to snarky blogs, playful online videos, live events in pubs and theaters, and "citizen science" projects that connect volunteers with ongoing research projects.
We've seen how people want to get involved in research and citizen science projects including Zooniverse, the Apple ResearchKit studies in the USA (mPower, My Heart Counts) and also our sister project in the UK focusing on arthritis and the weather: Cloudy with a Chance of Pain.
Although not all, a great part of the information collected through classic citizen science, community science and citizen cyberscience projects has a geographic nature.
Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) are involved in crowdsourcing and citizen science projects, however the number is fewer than that found, for example, in the biodiversity arena.
