"150 años de historia natural en México", exhibit at the National Museum of the Culture of the World.
CONABIO, "Top-down", contributed by Arturo Vallejo, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 25 August 2019, accessed 24 December 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/top-down
Critical Commentary
Citizen science in Mexico programs, at least those that concern biosiversity monitoring, are not spontaneous initiatives by amateurs, enthusiast and three-huggers. Bird watching and birder communities have been thoroughly spawned and nurtured by the local Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), the federal agency in charge of biodiversity information.
The citizen sience "system" that CONABIO has created revolves around two digital platforms, the local versions of eBird and iNaturalist. The aim of CONABIO is to incite birders (as well as enthusiasts of other animal, plant & fungi groups) to register their observations in the platforms, where they are sheltered and exhibited, but also harvested by other repositories, like Enciclovida, also managed by CONABIO.
The image show a diagram created by CONABIO that shows how these instances are related to each other.