Inspiring Digital Transformation within the Environment Sector in Scotland

Recording
A recording of this event is now available at this link.

The recording also references the following educational video in Morgan Korchia's presentation, which is available on Youtube. (Warning: contains strong language)

Statement of ambition
Following the event, we have been openly developing a Joint statement of ambition around digital transformation for senior leaders within Scotland's environment sector.

This is a draft statement of ambition on shared commitments to engage senior leaders within Scotland's environment sector.

Introduction
The purpose of the seminar is to inspire leaders of environment agencies and environment NGOs. The seminar was postponed due to Covid-19 and has been rescheduled as a webinar. It is based on the principles and approach set out in the concept paper, and is being planned openly as described on the home page.

Aims
The aims of the seminar is as follows:


 * 1) Check interest and share existing plans around digital transformation between environment organisations
 * 2) Introduce the potential opportunities of a digital transformation within the environment sector agenda to encourage shared learning and innovation in order to scale up our efforts to reverse the loss of biodiversity in Scotland
 * 3) Source strategic actions that environment leaders want to see in order to give collective consideration to the greatest opportunities for digital transformation within our sector.

Context

 * 2020 is a big year for biodiversity – 2030 global biodiversity framework to be agreed at the Convention on Biological Diversity event in Beijing
 * Scotland in a leadership role (including possible Convention on Biological Diversity event in spring and Conference of Parties (COP) for Climate Change in Glasgow 2020)
 * Urgency of the requirement for transformative change, as highlighted in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report

Presentations


Discussants
The event has registered participants from the following organisations:



We have been drawing from a list of environment organisations active in Scotland, which we are compiling here. Please add to this list.

Exhibition
As this is now an online event, we will collate and share resources provided by the exhibitors in place of the exhibition.

To add your resource, please visit Form:DigitalResource - Digital Transformation within Scotland's environment sector