We are delighted to let you know that the posters and video which we presented at last month’s GEO-X Plenary and Geneva Ministerial Summit are now available. 

We created a video of our mobile application demonstrator which was shown at Speakers Corner, part of the European Commission exhibition stand, and at on an iPad at the Citizens’ Observatory booth at GEO-X. The video gives a sense of the type of app that a citizen might use to gather data and reflects prototypes that we are currently testing with community groups in the UNESCO Dyfi Biosphere, in Mid Wales. 

The video shows both the building of the data collection form and the application. Both aspects of the prototype build upon the FieldTrip GB application, an open source mobile data collection tool developed by staff at EDINA, University of Edinburgh, part of the COBWEB project consortium. 

If you have any feedback on the demonstrator or the video, or if you have any questions about this area of the project, please do get in touch with us. 

We also presented two COBWEB posters and were part of three collaborative Citizens’ Observatory posters at GEO-X:

The first poster gives a broad overview of the project and was shown at the Speakers Corner area of the European Commission stand. This poster can be viewed or downloaded [PDF] here. 

The second poster specifically looks at the AIP-6 work which COBWEB project partners have been undertaking, and this was displayed at the OGC stand at GEO-X. This poster can be viewed or downloaded [PDF] here. 

COBWEB also contributed to three joint posters which were displayed on the Citizens’ Observatory exhibition stand, part of the European Commission presence at the event. All three posters are now available to download [as PDFs] from the joint Citizens’ Observatory website: An Introduction to the five CO projects; Overview of Technology in the five CO projects; Citizen Participation in the five CO projects

Find out more:

• View the COBWEB GEO-X 2014 Video Demonstrator on YouTube. You can also follow the COBWEB YouTube Channel for new videos as they come out. 
• COBWEB Dissemination page – view or download all of the COBWEB GEO-X posters as well as posters, flyers and other dissemination materials associated with the project. 
• Citizens’ Observatory website – the joint website spanning all five Citizens’ Observatory projects.
• FieldTrip GB website and GitHub code repository – find out more about this tool which our current mobile app prototype is based upon.