Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Making data accessable - Africa Rising Cape Town 2015

Making data accessable - Africa Rising Cape Town 2015

A short presentation on how UNEP-WCMC makes its data available, given to the Africa Rising Conference in Cape Town, May 2015

Tim Wilkinson

May 20, 2015
Tweet

More Decks by Tim Wilkinson

Other Decks in Science

Transcript

  1. Africa Rising - Cape Town 2015 [email protected] “The goal is

    to turn data into information, and information into insight” Carly Fiorina - CEO Hewlett-Packard
  2. Africa Rising - Cape Town 2015 [email protected] Protected planet.net The

    online home of the World Database of Protected Areas
  3. Africa Rising - Cape Town 2015 [email protected] 209,000 Protected Areas

    covering 15.4% of terrestrial areas and 3.4% of oceans
  4. Africa Rising - Cape Town 2015 [email protected] 1.7k species searches

    every day 70 species lists downloaded daily Loxodonta africana most popular species!
  5. Africa Rising - Cape Town 2015 [email protected] MacBook Pro Remote

    Sensing Validation Decision Making Data to Decision Making