The Citizen Science Global Partnership (CSGP) is a network-of-networks that seeks to promote and advance citizen science for a sustainable world. Launched in December 2017 at the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment, CSGP brings together existing networks of citizen science researchers and practitioners with advisory boards representing policy, business, and community-based perspectives. The initial goals of the partnership are:
1. Become a valued partner and common point of entry for NGOs, governments, businesses, and scientific organizations seeking to understand and work with the global citizen science community.
2. Network with and help support citizen science umbrella organizations, including the Citizen Science Association (CSA), the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), the Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA), emerging associations in other geographic regions such as Asia and Africa, and related networks or communities.
3. Network with and help support or manage consortia of citizen science projects conducting research around a specific topic of interest, such as the Global Mosquito Alert Consortium (GMAC) which was created to advance citizen science for mosquito vector monitoring.
4. Help catalogue, manage and share open and interoperable data for use in local to global research and decision-making.
5. Understand and track the contributions of citizen science towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Priorities as a partner of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
CSGP aims to support existing efforts to create data and metadata standards for citizen science, build a new citizen science open data portal, and advance the use of citizen science to support the SDGs.
We believe that citizen science can help leverage the SDG efforts as an active operator and monitor of change with the application of new methodologies to enhance the reliability of such data.