World’s first summit on citizen cyberscience

World’s first summit on citizen cyberscience. Sep 2010, PR 184/10 The world's first summit on citizen cyberscience is taking place at King's College London today and tomorrow (2-3 September). Citizen cyberscience is a growing trend where ordinary people use their computers and the world wide web to contribute in meaningful ways to an increasingly wide range of scientific and research challenges. Citizen cyberscience activity takes place all over the world and by its very nature participants very rarely - if ever - meet. More than 30 speakers over two days will showcase a cross-section of these projects and the event will provide a platform for participants to share their thoughts on the impact of citizen cyberscience face-to-face. The summit will be hosted by King's and is organised jointly by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, based at CERN in Geneva; the Centre for e-Research at King's; Queen Mary, University of London; Imperial College London; University College London and GridRepublic. Hanny van Arkel, a Dutch teacher, who is chairing the opening session at the summit, is probably the most famous cyberscientist in the world.