Technology for Environmental Impact
Course Content
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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 ViewActivity1.1
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Technology for Conservation: Getting Started ViewActivity1.2
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What can tech do? ViewActivity1.3
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Technology we love ViewActivity1.4
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What Tech Can Do: Technology Applications for the SDGS ViewActivity1.5
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The landscape of Tech for Environmental Impact and Illustrative Example: Invasive Lionfish control ViewActivity1.6
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Conservation Technology to Protect Wildlife & Ecosystems ViewActivity1.7
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Ways to influence a problem ViewActivity1.8
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Trends in tech ViewActivity1.9
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Shortcomings of these trends ViewActivity1.10
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Pitfalls of technology ViewActivity1.11
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The 21st Century Threat to Wildlife is “Cyberpoaching” ViewActivity1.12
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Map your tech ViewActivity1.13
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Assignment: Scope your technology ViewActivity1.14
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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 ViewActivity2.1
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Using data to drive change: DNA tech to Protect Pangolins ViewActivity2.2
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Data madlib ViewActivity2.3
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Collecting impactful data ViewActivity2.4
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Data ethics & sovereignty ViewActivity2.5
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The Data Ethics Canvas ViewActivity2.6
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Collaborative conservation ViewActivity2.7
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How to Build a Resilient Future Using Ancient Wisdom ViewActivity2.8
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The Tarot Cards of Tech ViewActivity2.9
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Considering Context ViewActivity2.10
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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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The Lifetime of a Technology: Introduction ViewActivity3.1
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Evolving to meet changing needs ViewActivity3.2
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Tracking wildlife: Risk management and unintended consequences ViewActivity3.3
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The lifecycle of technology ViewActivity3.4
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Your tech’s lifecycle ViewActivity3.5
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Addressing the Problem of Scale in Conservation ViewActivity3.6
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Scaling: Strategies and examples ViewActivity3.7
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Building communities to achieve massive scale ViewActivity3.8
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Envisioning the future ViewActivity3.9
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Tech Roadmap ViewActivity3.10
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Pitch your tech ViewActivity3.11
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Explore More
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Lesson 1: Additional ResourcesActivity4.1
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Lesson 2: Additional Resources ViewActivity4.2
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Lesson 3: Additional Resources ViewActivity4.3
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Lesson 3: Additional Resources
Some examples of scale in conservation projects: how they might scale and what we’ve seen works in scaling.
- Scaling‐up camera traps: monitoring the planet’s biodiversity with networks of remote sensors: This article presents a vision of scale for camera trapping, and the system that might eventually be built up around camera trapping. Any new tech needs to anticipate the constraints that scale would require; two important aspects highlighted in this paper are the need for uniform protocols for camera traps, and data management.
- How to Achieve Conservation Outcomes at Scale: An Evaluation of Scaling Principles
- Scaling up Conservation: Replication or Coordination?
A few (of the many) other examples of scaled-up conservation technologies which could be interesting to learn from include Seabird, Wildlife Computers, ESRI, Saildrone, Liquid Robotics, Forever Oceans, and Atlas Scientific.
Radical ocean futures-scenario development using science fiction prototyping and Radical Ocean Futures: Sci-Fi Prototyping demonstrate an approach to take the visioning exercise even further, building wildly creative scenarios for what the future might look like in our oceans.