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Seán Lynch

Author: Seán Lynch

Seán Lynch is the founder and developer of OpenLitterMap. He began researching how to map litter and has been trying to turn cleaning the planet into a game since he was introduced to geographic information systems (GIS) at University College Cork, Ireland in 2008. In 2017, Seán launched OpenLitterMap.com and has since worked as a software developer by day, to build the skills necessary to improve the open source development of tools that can facilitate citizen science. You can connect with him at https://linkedin.com/in/seanlynchgis or follow @openlittermap for more.

Mapping litter and plastic pollution with citizen science

As part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), AWS invited Seán Lynch, the founder of OpenLitterMap, to share how AWS technologies and open data are helping to solve global challenges like biodiversity loss and plastic pollution with citizen science. Solutions like OpenLitterMap help unlock the potential that a global abundance of technology has for the collection and dissemination of pertinent data that is an instrumental part of positive social change.