From emramanauskaite at gmail.com Thu Jul 13 18:41:41 2017 From: emramanauskaite at gmail.com (Egle Marija Ramanauskaite) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:41:41 +0300 Subject: [Party] "Mapathon" method for a different kind of mapping party - fighting Alzheimer's Message-ID: Dear all, You may already know our work with the Crowd2Map Tanzania project, but I'd like to share an invitation to contribute to a different kind of mapping effort this time. Just as world-changing, even if not about humanitarian mapping per se! :) EyesOnALZ is another initiative of the Human Computation Institute, which is a collaborator of the Crowd2Map project. EyesOnALZ aims to map the brain in Alzheimer's disease! The project and our online game - Stall Catchers - have actually been featured together with OpenStreetMap in the fantastic The Crowd & The Cloud documentary series (in the first episode ). Since I am passionately involved in both projects, it was just a matter of time before I took the best from one and applied it to the other ..:) therefore we're running our first Stall Catchers *"catchathon" this month, 22nd July!* (drawing *inspiration directly from mapathons of course*). Stall Catchers is a citizen science game crowdsourcing groundbreaking Alzheimer's research at Cornell University. We're searching the brain of mice for stalls - blocked blood vessels that could be likely culprits of Alzheimer's disease. However, even though the initial findings are promising and could lead to the first Alzheimer's treatment, due to the amount of data to be analyzed, the researchers cannot do it without our help! The goal of the *Stall Catchers catchathon is to increase international participation & empower everyone across the world to fight a disease that is affecting them, their loved ones and the society as a whole.* If that seems like a worthy goal to you, we would *invite you to hold a catchathon in your city, July 22, 16:00 UTC* (check your local time here ). *The pizza is on us!* (Just send us your estimated budget in advance.) The event will last for 2 hrs and be synchronized with the other locations across the world. The Crowd & The Cloud series crew will also stream the event via a live hangout, at the end of which we will announce the winning teams. But the grand goal is crunching as much Stall Catchers data as possible of course !! Please get in touch with me directly if you'd like to run a catchathon in your city! We will provide all the necessary materials and guidance :) plus, the game is easy enough to grasp, and you don't yourself have to be an experienced player to run it! In fact, most locations will be first time players. *Help us map the brain & cure Alzheimer's disease!* Best, Egle Citizen Science Coordinator at the Human Computation Institute -- *Eglė Marija Ramanauskaitė* Citizen Science Coordinator & PIO at Human Computation Institute Writer at Technology.Org and Technologijos .lt Master of *Molecular & Cellular Biology* and *Education Science* *Follow my blog: All things #citizenscience & #biohacking * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: