 My name is Lisa. You might have seen me in many different capacities today. I am coming to you to speak about one million voices. Thank you. So one million voices citizen science initiative using global people science to support agricultural transitions. Can you hear me all right. Okay, super. Okay, so as far as just said, the background is that the idea was dreamed up by Michelle from SDC and one night or one day who knows. And then officially launched in September 2021 and I do an emphasis supported by SDC. The overall goal of the initiative is threefold if you will, it is to enable farmers produce organizations consumers and other potential end users to inclusively participate in agriculture movements. That is one side of the idea. The second side is to really support sustainable adoption of agriculture and the third side is to contribute to collect to the collection co creation and sharing of information to address key knowledge gaps on the performance of agriculture. So the core goal of the one million voices citizen science initiative is really to develop a tool or a series of tools citizen science tools. There are three main steps in our project so components if you will so the first component really looks at how to jointly identify and define the scope interest and opportunities for new citizen science initiative. And I speaking and also a little bit about these terms of innovation and new buses. How does it interact with existing ones. And the thing that is interesting is that we're looking at defining the scope and interest in opportunities in a way that allows the initiative to be both global, but also locally relevant. The second component is then to develop and use the tool to engage at least one million voices, or one million people in generating new knowledge in support of agriculture across the room. Thank you. So just a brief reminder about what a citizen science actually mean so citizen science is a practice that involves citizens or non professionals or non experts. And this is particular non experts that are involved in the production of new scientific knowledge, and that the overall aim is to make the world a better place. So really the strong emphasis on using non scientists or non professionals and is a lot of non experts, but producing new scientific knowledge, and it has a strong, a strong interest in making the world a better place so like it has ambitions. Another fundamental characteristic is that contribution is usually voluntary. So usually people are not paid to participate they're not recruited to participate. So money is really, if ever at all included in these collective projects and at the core is really this participatory action for scientific advancement. This is citizen science citizen science yes is is a part is is participatory research if you will that is a very particular type of participatory research. So summary progress. What have we achieved so far. I spoke about the initiative having these two components right on the one hand the co creation of scope interest and opportunities, and then the development and the use of the tool. What we know is that we have conducted a global review of existing agriculture relevant citizen science initiatives. This interacts with what we just heard about P2, but it's not exactly the same because we're looking specifically at citizen science initiatives, and that are relevant for the community. Then the second part related to the scope interest and opportunities is really building partnerships, and exploring together how we can engage people from around the world through dialogue so through a series of dialogues in different regions through these partnerships to first of all understand what a regional what what say citizen science initiatives exist in these different regions. So complement also the global review of initiatives that we have done, and second to really engage partners and different stakeholders to understand what the specific interests would be for a new citizen science initiative. And then we are at the moment in the process of really looking at the prioritization, because as you know when you co created when you have many different people, many different actors in a room expressing different views. How do you bring it all together. So at the moment we are at this stage and I speak about some of the results in a minute. Then, with regards to the second component about using and developing the tool. And we learned a lot about citizen science. We are working with knowledge partners in Zurich at the Zurich citizen science center. And we're really learning a lot about what citizen science is and what it isn't and what it can do and where its limitations are. So we're really learning also a lot about the technical considerations that need to be taken into account and when developing or adding to existing citizen science tools. And at the same time also in terms of developing and using the tool we are preparing for the wide application of the tool the wide use of the tool by building really explicitly. These regional partnerships and by making sure that from the onset as the engagement process is ongoing, we are building on how the tool will be used to ensure. Okay, so some results. In the context of the global review and our process involved that initially we had an identification of initiatives through four different streams. And they have a large scale citizen science platforms that exist. So those were reviewed. Then we had a structured review of what science. And we had included different initiatives that had been part of what been mentioned or included by various partners in the million voices engagement so far. And we also added a fourth stream of data through a simple Google search. Once we had this general overview of the existing citizen science initiatives we went through this test of the loops if you will, to see is it really citizen science. Is it really food system related and is it relevant to our ecology by trying to map to the agriculture to the 13 principles of agriculture. So in the end we included 57 projects in the review database, and the database exists and we can share it I think it is it is ready so far. In total we included 57 projects, most of which are focusing on Europe and North America, some are global a few for Asia few for Australia few for Africa and a few for Latin America, as you can tell on this slide. In terms of the characteristics. So I said that we are learning a lot about how to understand citizen science and what the different elements of citizen science are. One of the things that is important is the role of citizens, if you will. So what what do they actually do. And there's a differentiation between data collection and data analysis, a very fundamental ones, as citizens asked to contribute to collecting data or they asked to help in analysis of data. And what we have found is that a majority of projects. And almost 90% of projects, predominantly look at having citizens contribute to collecting data rather than analyzing, analyzing a very few and a few do both in terms of the engagement. So this question of are we looking at, like what is, what is the role of science of citizens. And how do we co create the initiative. Are they involved in creating the research questions based on which the citizen science initiatives are built and are they included in every step of the process, or are they is the engagement more limited. And what we're saying is that a majority so 60% of the initiatives are contributory so it's really that this the initiatives are designed by scientists usually, or by external actors and then the input is sought from from citizens so not necessarily a very co creation, and co creation, it's there's collaborative so that is a step forward if you will where citizens are more involved in some of the aspects but not like full co creation, and full co creation is still the rarest form, but it's still 16%. In terms of the mapping to the principles and you know that these things are complicated at times but in terms of the mapping to the agricultural principles. We're seeing that a majority of the tools look at biodiversity, which is something that we know but it's still, it's still good to see, or input reduction but also a lot actually on social values and diet something that we've been discussing since since morning, and the importance of looking at people and systems more listically also quite a bit on participation connectivity etc etc. So the tools used, we also looked at the nature of the tool. Because when we hear citizen science we often think of digital tools, and the majority are digital, but some are digital and analog, and some are just analog, which is important, especially in the context of inclusivity of such initiatives in various contexts. So the main agroecological focus if you are, and long conversations about this but a majority of these initiatives focus on natural farming elements, and that about a quarter really like strongly focus on social justice social movement social mobilization, and 13% focus more on economic secularity, making magicians just etc. There's so much talk about I'm just like presenting a few things right. And when when confronted with it, you need to finish presenting. Oh, is it. Oh my God, is it. Oh, is it. Oh my God. Okay, lots of interesting main topics. We tried to classify them you'll see that in the database if you're interested to just make sense of the diversity of different topics that we have. I was not, I did not realize that I was so slow. Okay, context specificity through regional partnerships. So we, as I said we developed partnerships in four regions and you can see them on the map specifically. We engaged through the partners with joint protocols that were jointly created engagement conversations about really understanding what exists already where the interests and really this important entry point of what is the research question that you're interested in in pursuing is the citizen science. And we had various stakeholders engaged through our various partners. In Latin America we're working with the McKnight Foundation and this community of practice lead in West Africa work with Groundsville International in India we work with our team that is also part of our RSS and various engagements and and in the broader Asian context, Southeast Asia, but also East Asia and South Asia, and we work with AFA Asian Farm Association, and different modes of engagement were chosen but they all followed the same questions and the same outline and different types of stakeholders engaged in the process. We have we got insights into a lot of additional initiatives that exist in the regions and it was really important for us as a team to really understand okay globally available information is on what kind of initiatives, and you saw that it was very strongly biased towards the Northern Western and published initiatives, but there's a lot of things also happening on the ground and it was very useful for us to understand also to which degree, the organizations that we are working with who already members organizations. Most of it, most of them already members organizations walking with a lot of stakeholders on the ground different organizations on the ground to really see what has worked for members so far. Then the dialogue results really looking at what are the research questions that people are interested in. And as I said, vastly different stakeholders, and a lot of different phrasings depending on the region different emphasis on different elements. And we are yet to confirm I said like the results just came in from all different regions because there was some delays in some areas. And what was really important is like the three core areas really that people across the globe who are engaged in the dialogues are interested in is which local ecological practices exist. Second is who is practicing or organizing. So also this question of is it citizen science or is it people science, lots of discussions behind that, and very strong interest in impacts impacts on livelihoods and climate change adaptation impact on the environment impacts on soil specifically impact on the quality of the agricultural produce also specifically with the contact with the focus on nutrition aspects. Then we had like also strongly represented but not as strongly this question of which local scientific methods are being used by people, which sustainable business models exist, both in context of ensuring sustainable production, but also looking at shorter and viable value chains. And then there was also this additional component if you will on really documenting climate and climate change effects. In terms of the technology and priorities, a majority of the people were consulted of their stakeholders were consulted were really interested in having a digital tool. So we discussed the length, which kinds of digital tools are being used in which ways, smartphones for pictures descriptions, voice messages, web information sharing platforms, etc. There was a strong emphasis on the importance of ensuring that it was accessible in terms of language, but also in terms of how information is packaged, which is part of the reason also why having a digital platform is useful because as you know like digital tools allow for this beautiful feature of changing the language, which is really useful. And then very strong emphasis on the importance of not only inputting data but also being able to get back data so that we ensure also that scientific outputs are available but also available and understanding understandable format. There are more elements but core is like in establishing a citizen science initiative, starting simple starting easy and building from there. This is my last slide. Thank you. So the immediate next steps as I said we are in the process in the middle of this joint process with the regional partners of prioritization. We have looked at all the research questions that the different people interested in at the different elements. We are really in this process of where do we start. There are many different interests. Where do we start, then finalization of the tool in line with the core principle of the TPP really to add value not to duplicate we're really working very strongly on making sure that whatever we want to achieve builds on what is there, as much as possible, both and that is why the global review and those regional initiatives are so important for us to understand and if possible to build on an existing tool. As I said we're working with the citizen science center in Zurich to really ensure that we know well how it goes. And if we want to build an add to the initiative, we, the citizen science center has free tools to do that. Then in terms of popularization. So how do we engage the 1 million people. We have a global launch meeting once the toll is ready that is like the one component to for the broader reach but as I said we really strongly work on working on this with these partnerships, having local launches and really looking for how we can engage the actual members the actual actual members of the partners the actual citizens people through through in the way they already organized right like through through the way they already organized how can we ensure that we work with them. Yes, and then beyond that building TPP networks in the future. We're looking for how we can support application through the partners but also conduct more science into the effects of the initiative. Thank you.