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Objectives

CITEC’s main objective is to use an interdisciplinary social science approach to map, analyze, and experiment with projects and initiatives in Chile that are adopting ‘citizen’ approaches to scientific knowledge production and/or technology development to sense and reimagine the ongoing socio-environmental crisis. By a ‘citizen’ approach we mean the preference for using simple, low-cost, locally rooted, small-scale scientific methods and technical devices, actively involving (or even being guided by) citizens with no prior scientific or technical training.

This general objective leads to three specific ones:

Practice

The technical and social challenges involved in designing, testing, and implementing citizen technoscience initiatives.

Governance

The barriers faced by citizen technoscience initiatives when aiming to have a sustained social and environmental impact.

Scaling

The strategies and models used by citizen technoscience initiatives to ensure continuity and expand their reach.