Instituição líder:
Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC – Spain
The MINKA citizen science observatory is a community-based platform dedicated to the environmental data collection as a contribution for the SDGs achievement.
MINKA gathered data of coastal areas around the world of trained volunteers, currently about biodiversity, through geolocalized images uploaded by citizens. The photos are validated by means of a three stages process certified by experts toward the taxonomic identification; eventually the confirmed species and genera are available to users through data information facility infrastructures, such as GBIF. At now MINKA is under an ongoing process improving the parameters according to the Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs). Recently MINKA has been included into the UN Acceleration Actions for SDGs platform due to the contributions to the Agenda 2030, mainly SDGs 11, 14, 15 and 17.
Start Date: 31/01/2024
End Date: 31/12/2030
Lead Contact: Vanessa Sarah Salvo (vsalvo@icm.csic.es)