The Nature Conservancy today launched a major overhaul of ConserveOnline, supporting knowledge-flow and coordination between Â"conservation practitionersÂ" around the world.
Free online demonstrations are scheduled throughout the week; contact Jonathan Adams for more information.
Not only does ConserveOnline innovate for professional conservationists, but with investment from Oracle and more than a yearÂ's web programming by original developers of the open source Plone platform, it also explores how IT can support conservation of nature, and how nature can help IT evolve. In this case, the code enhancements to be released by the Plone Foundation reportedly including significant new ability to detach front-end user interface design from back-end data and admin structures, integration with Creative Commons functionality, and more.
WeÂ'll be tracking some lessons from this intersection of nature and IT:
• Will sometimes-unsocial individual conservationists (you know, those who prefer to be alone in the woods for months at a time) actually use social networking tools to help projects build on lessons already learned elsewhere? That is ConserveOnlineÂ's top goal.
• Will conservation organizations more broadly promote open source information flow and central repositories to their teams?
• And might conservation organizations take a step further and actually integrate data flow or direct web services with each other? ConserveOnline wants to explore such potential with other groups.
ConserveOnline is interesting in that it adheres to data norms of the Conservation Commons, while still pushing the open source approach for enabling solutions to keep pace with environmental problems worldwide.
Free online demonstrations are scheduled throughout the week; contact Jonathan Adams for more information.
Not only does ConserveOnline innovate for professional conservationists, but with investment from Oracle and more than a yearÂ's web programming by original developers of the open source Plone platform, it also explores how IT can support conservation of nature, and how nature can help IT evolve. In this case, the code enhancements to be released by the Plone Foundation reportedly including significant new ability to detach front-end user interface design from back-end data and admin structures, integration with Creative Commons functionality, and more.
WeÂ'll be tracking some lessons from this intersection of nature and IT:
• Will sometimes-unsocial individual conservationists (you know, those who prefer to be alone in the woods for months at a time) actually use social networking tools to help projects build on lessons already learned elsewhere? That is ConserveOnlineÂ's top goal.
• Will conservation organizations more broadly promote open source information flow and central repositories to their teams?
• And might conservation organizations take a step further and actually integrate data flow or direct web services with each other? ConserveOnline wants to explore such potential with other groups.
ConserveOnline is interesting in that it adheres to data norms of the Conservation Commons, while still pushing the open source approach for enabling solutions to keep pace with environmental problems worldwide.
