"Participation with environmental science and natural history has a long history, especially in Britain, long before it was termed 'citizen science', " project leader Dr Helen Roy, an ecologist from the CEH, told BBC News.

BBC: Review highlights role of citizen science projects

There was potential to make considerably more use of citizen science that currently was the case.

BBC: Review highlights role of citizen science projects

The guide, published alongside the review, offers the scientific community advice on how to develop, implement and evaluate citizen science projects.

BBC: Review highlights role of citizen science projects

An intercontinental project that bridged citizen science, open data, open source hardware, civic hacking and the Internet of things to monitor, share and map radiation data?

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He believes citizen science has "extraordinary" potential.

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Forty computer programmers from Facebook, Google and Amazon and Citizen Science Alliance are spending the next three days brainstorming in London trying to devise a game that we can all download as an app that will mean whilst we "play" we are also analysing the vast quantity of gene data that is out there.

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