Today we had the honor of attending the official launch of NaturaTech LAC, an amazing collaborative platform initiated by IDB Lab, Future of Earth and C Minds, for "Conservation rooted in Purposeful Technology, Wisdom and Collective Action".
We truly believe this kind of efforts are the breakthrough initiatives we need for the planet, and we hope this can be replicated around the world. Congratulations to Irene Arias Hofman, CFA and all IDB Lab team!!!
From the technology standpoint, and deeply related to our work at ARCHE, we want to highlight the following ideas from the "Technology with Purpose for Biodiversity" panel:
From Jean-Michel Baudoin at IDB, the view that technology has a role to play in biodiversity and NBSs, and a clear way to show this is with the need to measure something in order to be able to improve it. Lot of efforts are being done with GIS, satellite imagery, IoT and AI to help identify and track biodiversity efforts.
From Yves Lesenfants at IDB, the amazing job was done and is progressing applying technology to the Amazona in Brazil, in order to help local communities to control and act in terms of biodiversity.
From Maria Paula Duque from Microsoft about the (we would said) almost unseeing hard work that MS is doing putting together platforms, information, AI algorithms and technological solutions for the world sustainability and biodiversity efforts.
From Victor Galaz from the Stockholm Resilience Centre about the role of technology to promote diversity and ultimately resiliency, the ethical and moral use of data, as well as the need of more "market pull" solutions rather than "technology push". Also the need of much more evidence-based decision making processes such as theory of change and impact KPIs.
We endorse those ideas, and consider this is a big step forward!!!
More details at: https://lnkd.in/gMPjZ2iq
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