The Digital Inclusion working group aims to develop a basic set of guidelines that will unpack competencies required by citizens to participate in citizen science initiatives, as well as those of policy makers, decision makers and municipal employees to engage citizens in such initiatives. This working group has six objectives:
- Objective 1: Share ideas, case studies, best practices of digital inclusion in citizen science initiative, with a close attention to issue of competencies.
- Objective 2: Jointly analyse and document competencies (knowledge, skills, attitude) required by citizens to participate in citizen science initiatives, as well as those of policy makers, decision makers and municipal employees to engage citizens in such initiatives.
- Objective 3: Map the identified competencies against specific purposes/applications for citizens, policy makers, decision makers and municipal employees.
- Objective 4: By March 2022, develop a guideline that helps cities and citizen science initiatives to understand, identify and enhance capacities and competencies required for digital inclusion of different actors.
- Objective 5: Pilot the developed guideline in at least one real life example of citizen science initiatives between April and December 2022.
- Objective 6: Consolidate the guidelines with lessons learned from the pilot phase and further analysis by March 2023.