CitSciAsia Meets… Professor Hiromi Kobori & Shaun Martin
Volume 1: The CNC Special.
The first episode of our CitSciAsia Meets… interview series is online, with Professor Hiromi Kobori & Shaun Martin in conversation with Just Tang.
If you’ve not seen the CitizenScience.Asia youtube channel you should check it out and subscribe here. We have recorded a number of interviews with Citizen Science practitioners from across Asia and beyond, hopefully providing a forum for Citizen Scientists interested in sharing their stories with the community and the world.
In our first video CitizenScience.Asia had the pleasure to meet with City Nature Challenge (CNC) 2018 and 2019 organizers for Tokyo and Hong Kong/Macau, Professor Hiromi Kobori and Shaun Martin. City Nature Challenge is a global bio-blitz competition which rallies cities around the world to compete to see who can make the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people. Our interviewer Just Tang finds out what motivated them to join the competition, how the 2018 challenge went, and what was the secret of their success.
We were fortunate to have Professor Kobori visiting us in Hong Kong on a fact finding mission to compare notes with Shaun Martin on the successes and experiences of Hong Kong and Tokyo in the City Nature Challenge. It seems these discussions were useful as both cities did even better in the 2019 challenge, both achieving about 50% more observations this year. You can read more on how the trip went in this posting from our Japanese Ambassador Emu Miyashita. With our friends at MakerBay and DIY Bio HK we organised a CitSciAsia Talk session with Professor Kobori.
Professor Kobori gave fascinating and detailed insight into the history and practice of Citizen Science in Japan. You can also see an archived video stream of that longer public discussion and Q&A recorded here.
We have more videos to post and more public events to record, so keep watching the channel to keep informed in what is happening in Citizen Science in Asia. If you’d like to be interviewed or share stories and videos relating to Citizen Science please let us know.
