I-Corps: Citizen science technology platform

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力利用了当前公民科学的增长，探索了一个技术平台的商业潜力，该平台简化了公民科学项目的数据捕获、收集、集成、托管、可视化、分析和共享。尽管广泛流行，但做好公民科学所必需的任务是繁重、复杂和令人沮丧的，导致效率低下、浪费时间和增加费用。项目经理需要工具来帮助他们和他们的志愿者以一种快速、简单和经济有效的方法执行研究。他们需要轻松地调整成员和数据的治理，并能够快速招募、沟通和监督成员。他们需要足够灵活的数据收集工具，以支持其特定和不断变化的需求；他们需要高质量、安全、备份、管理和可访问的数据，所有这些都集中在一个地方。他们需要轻松地检测异常值，能够修复错误、上传数据、创建报告，并有效地自动将数据共享和交付给涉众。这个I-Corps项目探索了市场对一个在线平台的需求，以实现公民科学的全部潜力。公民科学使公众参与科学研究，并且正在迅速发展。目前，数千个公民科学项目吸引了数百万参与者。然而，软件特性和项目需求之间存在脱节。当前的项目仍然充满了低效率，软件和数据系统是临时的和脱节的。这导致了软件和数据孤岛。当前的解决方案将观察限制在单点，缺乏对严格的科学实验和分析的支持，并且不能以易于使用的格式向消费者提供数据。该平台通过灵活的、完全可定制的、同步的实时网络和移动应用程序简化了数据收集和共享。它改进了项目数据管理、分析和可视化。它通过增加项目间的意识、协作和共享来放大项目的影响。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project capitalizes on the current growth in citizen science to explore the commercial potential of a technological platform that streamlines data capture, collection, integration, hosting, visualization, analysis, and sharing for citizen science projects. Although widely popular, the tasks necessary to do citizen science well are onerous, complex, and frustrating leading to inefficiencies, lost time, and added expense. Project managers need tools that help them and their volunteers execute research in a fast, easy, and cost effective method. They need to easily tailor the governance of members and data and be able to quickly recruit, communicate with, and oversee members. They need data collection tools flexible enough to support their specific and evolving needs; they need data to be high quality, secure, backed up, curated, and accessible all in a centralized place. They need to easily detect outliers, be able to fix errors, upload data, create reports, and efficiently automate the sharing and delivery of data to stakeholders.This I-Corps project explores the market need for an online platform to realize the full potential of citizen science. Citizen science engages the public in scientific research and is growing rapidly. Currently, thousands of citizen science projects engage millions of participants. However, there is a disconnect between software features and project needs. Current projects remain fraught with inefficiencies and software and data systems are ad hoc and disjointed. This results in software and data silos. Current solutions limit observations to single points, lack support for rigorous scientific experimentation and analysis, and cannot deliver data to consumers in a readily usable format. This platform streamlines data collection and sharing through flexible, fully customizable, and synchronized real-time web and mobile applications. It improves project data management, analysis, and visualization. It amplifies the impacts of projects by increasing awareness, collaboration, and sharing across projects.