Uploaded on 2019-05-11 by Philip K Ng

1. Organized by the Tai Tam Tuk Foundation and funded by the Hong Kong government’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, a 24-hour “citizen science” event was held in November 2017 that attracted over 350 people aged between three and 90, all were keen to record as many species of plants and animals as possible. The event was a success and recorded more than 500 different kinds of species, including a sea horse and a blue spider nicknamed “Tiffany Blue”. However, citizen science is yet widely-known in Hong Kong, and there have been only a few similar events held over the last few years. 2. Get community involvement, obtain community consensus, organize community workshops to create design solutions, and establish steering committee to implement the project as well as provide continual assessment post-implementation. 3. As in other citizen science projects, the wisdom of the crowd comes on average to a similar or even better conclusion than an expert would. Also, we need to leverage on information technology, using big data to do more in-depth analysis in order to find the optimal solutions. Photo Source: South China Morning Post, 12th December 2017