Technology for Environmental Impact → Addressing the Problem of Scale in Conservation

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Total content: 38 activities

Lesson 1: The Role of Tech: Opportunities and Pitfalls
Technology enhances our ability to understand and instigate change within systems. In this lesson, we explore the different levels of insight and influence that technology can help us have within a natural system. helping us address the environmental crisis, and what could (and can’t) it help us do?
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  The Role of Tech: Introduction View
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  Technology for Conservation: Getting Started View
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  What can tech do? View
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  Technology we love View
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  What Tech Can Do: Technology Applications for the SDGS View
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  The landscape of Tech for Environmental Impact and Illustrative Example: Invasive Lionfish control View
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  Conservation Technology to Protect Wildlife & Ecosystems View
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  Ways to influence a problem View
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  Trends in tech View
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  Shortcomings of these trends View
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  Pitfalls of technology View
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  The 21st Century Threat to Wildlife is “Cyberpoaching” View
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  Map your tech View
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  Assignment: Scope your technology View
Lesson 2: Ethical and Impactful Tech
In this lesson, we’ll dig deep into the design of your tech and some key considerations as you think about how it will be deployed. Beyond just considering the physical environment that a technology is deployed in, we need to design for the political, cultural, and social environment that a technology will work within.
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  Ethical and Impactful Tech: Introduction View
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  Using data to drive change: DNA tech to Protect Pangolins View
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  Data madlib View
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  Collecting impactful data View
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  Data ethics & sovereignty View
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  The Data Ethics Canvas View
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  Collaborative conservation View
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  How to Build a Resilient Future Using Ancient Wisdom View
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  The Tarot Cards of Tech View
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  Considering Context View
Lesson 3: The Lifetime of a Technology
In this lesson, we’ll look at what needs to be considered over the lifetime of a tech intervention. How will the tech scale and last? How will it be retired? What is the tech’s long-term future?
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  The Lifetime of a Technology: Introduction View
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  Evolving to meet changing needs View
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  Tracking wildlife: Risk management and unintended consequences View
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  The lifecycle of technology View
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  Your tech’s lifecycle View
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  Addressing the Problem of Scale in Conservation View
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  Scaling: Strategies and examples View
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  Building communities to achieve massive scale View
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  Envisioning the future View
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  Tech Roadmap View
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  Pitch your tech View
Explore More
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  Lesson 1: Additional Resources
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  Lesson 2: Additional Resources View
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  Lesson 3: Additional Resources View

Technology for Environmental Impact

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Lesson 3: The Lifetime of a Technology In this lesson, we’ll look at what needs to be considered over the lifetime of a tech intervention. How will the tech scale and last? How will it be retired? What is the tech’s long-term future?

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Addressing the Problem of Scale in Conservation

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Lesson 3: The Lifetime of a Technology
In this lesson, we’ll look at what needs to be considered over the lifetime of a tech intervention. How will the tech scale and last? How will it be retired? What is the tech’s long-term future?