by Eleonora AnelloWhat's better, in summer time, to have water quality data of more than 22,000 bathing areas in European seas, rivers and lakes just on click away?
Eye on Earth interactive portal of the European Environment Agency achieved through the partnership with Microsoft is a genuine two-way communication platform that brings together scientific information, thanks to a collection of historical data ranging since 1990 to today, with comments and observations of users through the use of simple icons.
The most interesting project in terms of environmental communication is able to "measure", through a simple graphical interface, as different subjective perception that users have, respect to scientific, and therefore reliable, represented by icons instead used by administrators of the portal.
Eye on Earth is also a social use of technology: not only protects the environment, but fosters communication between citizens and between them and institutions that are open to discussion and participation. Example of dynamic communication with contributions coming from both sides.
Over the next 5 years the portal will be gradually expanded to include information on many other issues (ground level ozone and other forms of air pollution, oil spills, biodiversity, coastal erosion), with the goal of becoming a global observatory for environmental change.
Giving a look at the maps we can see now some discrepancies between scientific data and evaluations of users. The perception of reality differs so much from the purely scientific data?
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