Case Study ICARUS Early warning goats Partners Involved: Animals (goats, elephants, felines, birds, …) and scientists Type of Partnership: Win-Neutral for Public and Planet Partnership Models: Data Partner Using animals as “intelligent sensors” to predict natural disasters could save thousands of human lives and enable bringing more people to safety. [...]
Case Study Garbage Fighting Vultures Tackling illegal waste dump Partners Involved: Vultures, Peru Ministry of Environment, Gallinazo Avisa Type of Partnership: Win-Neutral for Public and Planet Partnership Models: Data Partner, Waste Manager, Educator The campaign benefits public health and sanitation and prevents pollution. However, it is not directly enriching the [...]
Case Study IoT Pigeon Air Patrol Fighting air pollution Partners Involved: Pigeon Air Patrol, CISCO, DigitasLBi, Pigeons, Plume Labs Type of Partnership: Win-Neutral for Public and Planet Partnership Models: Data Partner For the Public, the pigeons provide previously inaccessible data on man-made pollution levels. Therefore, monitoring air quality and taking [...]
Case Study Bio-Logging Seabirds Improving weather forecasting accuracy Partners Involved: Seabirds, Scientists (University of Tokyo) Type of Partnership: Win-Neutral for Public and Planet Partnership Models: Data Partner Data collected by seabirds helps improve weather forecasts. In the context of climate change, it allows researchers to better understand their capacity to [...]
Case Study Frog Census Monitoring water health Partners Involved: Frogs, Scientists, Citizen Scientists Type of Partnership: Win-Win for Public and Planet Partnership Models: Data Partner, Sensor Using frog health as an indicator of water health is mutually reinforcing and beneficial for Public water consumption, as well as the entire wetland [...]
Case Study BeeOdiversity Improving environmental and human well-being Partners Involved: Honeybees, wild bees and other pollinating insects; BeeOdiversity, Business organizations and public authorities Type of Partnership: Win-Win for Public and Planet Partnership Models: Data Partner, Nourisher, Sensor, Moneymaker For the public, the bees provide valuable data sets to analyze the [...]
