- Embrace both centralized national programs and decentralized local programs
- Encourage creativity
- Encourage use of open-data standards and open-source software 
- Seek broad and diverse participation through local and traditional ecological knowledge 
- Maintain a cooperative and supportive environment for everyone, realizing everyone’s value to the advance in the field. 

Guiding principles for the emerging community of practice

- Expanded efforts are needed to garner support for and recognition of citizen science as a discipline and an important form of volunteer service. 
- some guiding principles for the emerging community of practice

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- paradigm shift
- citizen science as an evolving discipline and community of practice

Citizen science community in the future

The concept of citizen science could become vague as data collection tied to game and social interaction becomes an integrated part of daily life 

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