In the session, I would like to give a short talk on our interdisciplinary research on participatory monitoring on biodiversity I have organized and been managing for about 8 years. The research project is a joint program of conservation ecology (CE) and data engineering (DE), or information science, both of which are mission-oriented sciences to meet newly emerging modern social needs and highly valuing citizen involvement including citizen science.

I would like to summarize three prototypes of participatory monitoring systems we have already developed, “Butterfly in Tokyo”, “Invasive alien bumblebee in Northern Island Hokkaido,” and “Biodiversity of Kuromatsunai”, which mutually differ in monitoring purpose, spatial scale and range of citizens involving.