CitSci India 2020 is India’s first ever National Conference on Citizen Science for Biodiversity and is being hosted as part of the preparatory phase project of the National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well-being (NMBHWB). The conference will be a virtual meeting of various stakeholders such as practitioners of citizen science, researchers, educators, students, policy makers, and individual contributors, who actively engage in citizen science.

This meeting will enable stakeholders to identify opportunities and challenges for increased quantity, quality, and geographical representation of citizen science projects related to biodiversity. Participants at the conference will discuss various themes such as project outcomes/​success stories, data sharing policies, best practices as well as gaps and priorities in a series of invited talks, panel discussions and oral presentations.

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