Install, configure, and script, a prototype CKAN open data portal in AWS cloud

The Goal We are in the design and planning phase of a new climate change-related citizen science web prototype (related to "UN Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"). The prototype will be a mobile-friendly website that allows citizens to take and submit photos and other “ground truth” observations to the Trusted Authorities, during /after floods. This information can be used to help the authorities assess and predict the flood or disaster scope and impact. Install and configure, and document/script, a prototype implementation of CKAN open data portal (https://ckan.org/) in Amazon Web Services cloud, which would allow us to gather and share environmental data sets for our citizen science and climate change-related projects. Examples of our datasets are historical climate data for Ottawa region, social media URLs for flood volunteers in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, police stations, and fire station GPS locations and contacts around Ottawa-Gatineau region etc. When a user searches for such data, the relevant datasets will be displayed and visualized. Your Contribution Demonstrate, with a working prototype, how CKAN can be setup in AWS cloud to store and display our data sets. Ensure that the prototype can be reproduced in our environment using installation and configuration documentation and/or scripts. (We use Terraform to deploy AWS cloud components but are not expecting you to provide such scripts – however if you can, bonus!)

Create user guide for Trusted Authorities using our climate change web app

The Goal We are in the design and planning phase of a new climate change-related citizen science web prototype (related to "UN Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"). The prototype will be a mobile-friendly website that allows citizens to take and submit photos and other “ground truth” observations to the Trusted Authorities, during /after floods. This information can be used to help the authorities assess and predict the flood or disaster scope and impact. We are building a web application prototype that citizen scientists that will use to safely take and submit photos and other "ground truth" observations to the Trusted Authorities (local NGOs and/or government officials), during/after floods and other climate change-related natural disasters. We would like you to plan and create a draft digital user guide/handbook and supporting material that we can use to help Trusted Authorities who use the web application. Your Contribution Use your skills and creativity in all aspects of the user guide design process: research, analysis, iteration, presentation, and evaluation.Your contributions will include technical writing of the draft. At the start of the project, we will provide a walk-through of our prototype site and content. We will also provide a wealth of background material on the application, its use case, goals, and objectives, and even detailed low-level fidelity wireframes. and other recommendations behind the proposed citizen science web application features

Research and gather a list of climate change citizen science applications & data

The Goal Climate change affects current and future generations; adaptation and risk mitigation is necessary. In 2019 we set out to research how software can help deal with the impacts. With the advent of new technologies for environmental monitoring and tools for sharing information, citizens are more and more engaged in collecting environmental data, and many environmental agencies are using these data. A significant challenge, however, is that data users, such as federal, state, and local agencies, are sometimes skeptical about the quality of the data collected by citizen science organizations. We would like you to help us research, and gather data on international citizen science software applications & data sources (eg. open source projects, marketplaces, and applications). Research on how citizen science new technologies collect, analyze and report environmental data, this information will be saved on a template which we will provide.

Determine Web Accessibility options for a citizen science website

The Goal Research and document web accessibility standards that can apply to the citizen scientists web application we are building. Use your skills and creativity in all aspects of the design process to identify relevant web accessibility standards, determine which ones could/should apply to the two sections of our prototype (citizen scientist and trusted authority portal). Your Contribution Research and identify possible web accessibility standards Determine which should apply to our website/app and identify the overall user experience accessibility assessment and design Take our citizen prototype screenshots and create mockup HTML that meets WCAG and other accessibility standards Why climate solutions need to support web accessibility At the start of the project we will provide a walk-through of our prototype site and content. We will also provide a wealth of background material on the application, its use case, goals and objectives, and even detailed low-level fidelity wireframes.