Current State of the Art
Both in Europe and globally, there has been huge progress during the last decade towards harmonising and collaborating on marine environmental monitoring, and subsequently aggregating and making the data openly available. This creates superior value and usefulness for any given monitoring effort. However, just as importantly, collaboration on marine environmental monitoring creates (and indeed requires) close partnerships across boundaries of organisations and countries. We are starting to see cross-fertilisation of ambitious multi-actor efforts in the full process of knowledge creation, tackling issues of increasing complexity and scope. However, these partnerships around marine data collection are currently still limited to established public agencies and academia, and they do not yet include the private sector and civil society sufficiently. Truly open platforms for data collection create (and indeed require) close partnerships between a wider range of new actors from different sectors of society, in order to solve technological and operational challenges.
C2B2 advance beyond the State of the Art
C2B2 will demonstrate technically and operationally open platforms for data collection. By doing so, we will show that the current benefits of partnerships between established monitoring agencies and professionals can be taken to a new level by including the private sector and civil society. Most importantly, new actors will raise new questions re. what data should be collected, how, and why. C2B2 will break up established assumptions of what ocean knowledge we need and who will be involved in co-creating that knowledge.
Task
Activities and results
Contact persons
Ola Benderius
