What Journalists Can Learn From the Citizen Science Movement

By: Sonja Matanovic | 02/12/2013

Knight International Journalism Fellow Gustavo Faleiros is tapping ordinary, environmentally concerned citizens in the Amazon region to help contribute data and information to InfoAmazonia, his digital mapping project that tracks deforestation. Faleiros says "citizen science" movements like this one can be a powerful force for connecting communities, for telling stories about the environment and health, and for helping explain the problems and issues to policymakers. Faleiros wrote about this trend for IJNet.org.

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