Imagine a bridge that connects local knowledge from people living in the Amazon or East Africa with high-tech data science. It helps people who aren't scientists understand how their changing environment is making them sick. By sharing this info openly, they can create their own local health solutions and push for better laws.
Local communities in low-income cross-border areas lack the scientific literacy and data access to protect their health from environmental degradation and climate extremes.
Open, multimodal, and replicable information ecosystems for environmental health monitoring and policy influence.
If you are a software developer dealing with low scientific literacy in remote areas — this project developed multimodal information ecosystems that make complex environmental health data accessible to non-experts.
If you are a consultancy dealing with land cover degradation in the Amazon or East Africa — this project developed replicable methods for co-producing data with local communities to identify sustainable mitigation solutions.
If you are an insurer dealing with climate extreme events in cross-border zones — this project developed a way to gather ground-level health and environmental data from 3 specific study areas to better understand regional vulnerabilities.
Based on available project data, no pricing or cost information is provided as the project relies on Open Science principles.
The project focuses on creating replicable information ecosystems across 3 cross-border study areas, suggesting a model that can be adapted to other bio-regions.
The project is based on Open Science and open access data infrastructures, implying that results are intended to be shared openly rather than restricted by traditional patents.
It uses multimodal information ecosystems to bridge the gap between scientific data and local community understanding to influence public policy.
The project is active from 2024-01-01 to 2027-12-31.
The consortium is purely academic and research-driven, consisting of 15 partners from 7 countries. With 7 universities and 6 research organizations, and 0% industry participation, the project is focused on knowledge generation and methodology rather than immediate commercial product development.
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