Data, Trust and Public Engagement: Citizen Science Through the Eyes of Researchers
April is dedicated to citizen science, which has become an increasingly important part of research and open science in recent years. How are data collected from the public actually used in practice? What benefits and challenges does this approach bring? And what is needed for its further development in the Czech Republic? We asked three researchers – Alena Fornůsková (Czech Academy of Sciences), Jakub Trojan (Faculty of Science, Masaryk University), and Michael Lažan (Senzorvzduchu, z.s.) – who have long been involved in citizen science.
