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Welcome to the open planning space for digital transformation within Scotland's environment sector.

UPDATE: Check out the new digital resource knowledge bank

Our big idea
By achieving our potential for digital transformation with citizens and communities, Scottish environment organisations will be more resilient and ready to move quickly and collaboratively on tackling the climate and nature crisis. This is essential for Scotland's contribution to progressing the Sustainable Development Goals, as articulated in Scotland by its National Performance Framework.

Our aim is to explore how, together, environment organisations can use innovative digital technologies to address the shared challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, and work together to create a nature-rich future. Through improved science, slicker internal operations and more targeted public engagement we can all be better informed, more effective and better focused on improving the environment and empower the public to help us on this journey.

What are we trying to achieve on this site?

 * What will this planning space do? We believe that the environment sector in Scotland will achieve its digital potential faster if it collaborates openly on this agenda.


 * How to get involved? This site is a shared and open planning space for the environment sector in Scotland. Use this space to collaborate with others openly on the digital transformation agenda.


 * How this site works? You can immediately start working on developing this wiki, whenever you want (no wiki experience required). There is no need to register or sign in, unless you want your ideas to be attributed to you (so others can see who has contributed what). We want you to directly shape these plans by adding your ideas and content to this wiki. It will directly inform the digital transformation agenda for the environment sector in Scotland.

Why are we using a wiki?

 * It’s accessible through the government firewalls – many proprietary digital platforms are not
 * It’s more robust and road-tested – it uses the same underlying technology as Wikipedia . While it’s old tech, it has been evolving extensively over the years
 * It’s easier for people to get into, as they don’t need an account unlike many other platforms – this makes a big difference
 * Finally, and importantly, it’s machine readable by the software used by people with accessibility needs, which is important for equality / inclusion

This site has been set up by Ruchir Shah, Scottish Wildlife Trust, working in partnership with Scottish Natural Heritage. Information on this site is always provisional and in development.

Aims and ambitions
This resource therefore aims to support the following ambitions:

Delivery
Outputs progressed


 * Concept for digital transformation - as it applies to the environment sector
 * Planning webinar with eNGOs in Scotland - to ensure buy-in and negotiate the agenda
 * Digital resource - (building on this wiki) to capture learning and develop a knowledge base for eNGOs to contribute and tap in to

The following activities are currently in planning


 * Seminar with CEOs - of the environment sector, to inspire and call for action
 * Interactive sharing and learning workshop - with digital leaders in the environment sector, to share learning and best practice

Get involved

 * Follow the links in the actions section above to participate in planning the activities
 * Contact Ruchir Shah at the Scottish Wildlife Trust if you want to discuss any aspect of this resource privately.