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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Tracking wildlife: Risk management and unintended consequences
Consider the pre-readings that explore how tracking has put species at risk:
The Dark Side of Digitally Tracking Endangered Species
Tracking Wildlife for Science Could Actually Help Poachers
eBird Is Now Censoring Sightings for 325 At-Risk Species
- What responsibility do these organizations have to track whether they’re doing enough to limit their harm? Should they have anticipated these risks before launch?
- How might they creatively monitor whether the actions they’re taking to protect rare species are sufficient?
- What other risks might these platforms be introducing?