Creating an anticipatory data ethics protocol for emerging nature-based solutions

Ethical data governance practices continue to shift with the emergence of digital technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence. As these technologies begin to integrate more with climate and nature-based solutions, unique implications appear around data collection, handling, and use. Established concerns about privacy, consent, and data transparency present themselves, along with new considerations where information about people and environments come together. Veritree is collaborating with the University of Guelph to review current and future environmental technology trends, and to create an anticipatory data ethics protocol for the nature-based solutions Veritree provides. Veritree will use the review and ethics protocol to support their data pratices, to keep pace with shifting ethical considerations in the industry, and to contribute to global, data-driven efforts that address climate change and environmental conservation.

Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Nost

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Partner:

Veritree

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Guelph

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