2019
Protecting the planet and the people

Secure and Principled Data Governance in Conservation

Panthera
International
2019

As the technology used to monitor wildlife populations and crimes in protected areas advanced over the previous decades, NGOs have been collecting broad swaths of data without field-recognized standards for how to manage data. The project proposes the creation of a working group composed of representatives from across the conservation and adjacent fields, in order to establish standards for data governance.