Virtual Meetup: Tools and Spaces for Collaboration
Speaker: Lou Woodley, Director of the AAAS Centre for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement
WILDLABS aims to facilitate collaboration and reduce duplication of efforts in conservation tech. While community members generally want to collaborate more effectively and avoid reinventing the wheel in their solutions, many still struggle with how to actually go about doing this. For example, in our original call for input for this series, one member requested a discussion addressing "How best to collaborate, share resources and spread design and testing loads without doubling up".
We need a virtual meetup to illuminate the potential of spaces both online (e.g. GitHub) and in the field (makerspaces / innovation labs), as well as the tools they provide to facilitate collaboration around conservation tech. For applications ranging from data sharing to open-source hardware development and beyond, it is necessary to identify what these tools and spaces offer and how to best utilize them to advance conservation capacity.
Speakers
- Lou Woodley, Director of the AAAS Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement ([ Ссылка ])
- Corinne Pitts, Services Solutions Engineer at GitHub ([ Ссылка ])
- Shah Selbe, Conservation Technologist, National Geographic Explorer & Fellow, and Founder of Conservify ([ Ссылка ])
A taste of makerspaces - contributions from Andrew Quitmeyer in Panama ([ Ссылка ]) and Damian Otieno in Kenya ([ Ссылка ]).
Outcomes
The aims of this discussion are as follows: to introduce tools and spaces for collaboration in the context of conservation tech; to describe how they are being used, including what needs they are addressing and how they fit in to the wider ecosystem; to identify the obstacles in advancing the capacity of these tools and spaces; and to discuss their role in the future of conservation tech.
Notes and full recording: [ Ссылка ]
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The WILDLABS Virtual Meetup Series is a program of webinars that bring leading engineers in the tech sector together with conservation practitioners to share information, identify obstacles, and discuss how to best move forward.
Full archive is available here: [ Ссылка ]
Music: www.bensound.com
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