Technology for Environmental Impact
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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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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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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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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.