An Opportunity Brief exploring what collaborative data stewardship can look like in varying environmental contexts, in service of frontline communities.

A summary of the upcoming research series on Open Hardware, in collaboration with The Wilson Center.

‍This brief presents opportunities as entry points for data-informed participatory governance to support better climate and environmental planning. The opportunities presented here speak to specific participants within policy and planning landscapes: local, state, and tribal governments; communities and community-based organizations; civil society and academia; and philanthropy. While they are categorized by specific sectors, many of the opportunities are multi-sector in application.

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Coming in Spring 2022.

Coming in Spring 2022.

A supplementary deep dive into the history of CJ, EJ, and Digital Rights Space.

This brief presents the opportunity to firmly establish environmental data as a public good in both the traditional sense of being non-rival and non-excludable, as well as in expanding the conceptualization of public goods to include utility and equity. To fully reach its potential as a public good, government, community, and academic stakeholders must address four major barriers: (i) lack of awareness of, (ii) overabundance of, (iii) the potential to misuse, and (iv) lack of infrastructure for environmental data resources. The data and its infrastructure must also be workable and useful for users with diverse experiences, capacities, and access to resources.

A new report on open hardware for science published by the Wilson Center Science Technology and Innovation Program, co-authored by Alison Parker, Shannon Dosemagen, Jenny Molloy, Anne Bowser, and Alexandra Novak.

Part one of this series explores a brief introduction to why the approach of collaborative governance is interesting and attractive in the environmental context and then defines the different types of governance models being discussed today.

An initial exploration evaluating how new data governance models (trusts, collectives, commons, guilds) could provide better insights and solutions to the topics of extractive industries, the climate crisis, and natural resource management.

An initial exploration evaluating how new data governance models (trusts, collectives, commons, guilds) could provide better insights and solutions to the topics of extractive industries, the climate crisis, and natural resource management.

An initial exploration evaluating how new data governance models (trusts, collectives, commons, guilds) could provide better insights and solutions to the topics of extractive industries, the climate crisis, and natural resource management.

An initial exploration evaluating how new data governance models (trusts, collectives, commons, guilds) could provide better insights and solutions to the topics of extractive industries, the climate crisis, and natural resource management.

An initial exploration evaluating how new data governance models (trusts, collectives, commons, guilds) could provide better insights and solutions to the topics of extractive industries, the climate crisis, and natural resource management.