The Use of Digital Platforms for Community-Based Monitoring.

ABSTRACT: Environmental observing programs that are based on Indigenous and local knowledge increasingly use digital technologies. Digital platforms may improve data management in community-based monitoring (CBM) programs, but little is known about how their use translates into tangible results. Drawing on published literature and a survey of 18 platforms, we examine why and how digital platforms are used in CBM programs and illuminate potential challenges and opportunities. Digital platforms make it easy to collect, archive, and share CBM data, facilitate data use, and support understanding larger-scale environmental patterns through interlinking with other platforms. Digital platforms, however, also introduce new challenges, with implications for the sustainability of CBM programs and communities'

SUBMITTER: Johnson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8106997 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature