OpenPSD – Engage and promote the private sector in open biodiversity data publication

This project is co-funded by the GBIF Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP) in its 2019 call. It is aimed to engage and promote biodiversity data publication and use by the private sector through workshops, documentation targeted to the private sector and mentoring. To achieve this goal, this project will use the previous experience of Norway and Portugal, in which private companies are already GBIF publishers. Colombia, France, and Spain will, as mentees, benefit to develop their strategies to engage private companies in their countries. Outputs and deliverables will be reusable by other GBIF nodes.

Due to the exceptional situation generated by the COVID-19, the project was extended to January 31st, 2021.

The main activities of this project will be:

• The development of information and case studies on identifying potential publishers and support in-house documentation and authorization by companies.
• The development of promotional materials to engage private companies.
• The organization of two workshops, in Portugal and Norway, in order to expand knowledge about GBIF within the private sector in the country and promote discussion about motivations for data publication.
• The organization of three workshops, in Colombia, France, and Spain, in order to facilitate engagement of new private sector companies. It will also help to identify motivation in data publishing.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we only organised one onsite workshop hosted by Norway. The rest of the participant countries (Portugal, Colombia, France and Spain) adapted their workshops to online mode.

Project partners:

• GBIF Spain (coordinating organization).
• GBIF Portugal.
• GBIF Norway.
• SiB Colombia.
• GBIF France.
• CiBio/InBIO (Portugal).
• Energias de Portugal (EDP).
• Asplan Viak AS (Noruega).

OpenPSD meeting with private sector companies from Norway

GBIF Norway, in collaboration with Asplan Viak and Artsdatabanken, has hosted a meeting on biodiversity data attended by 17 experts from Norweigian private sector companies. This meeting was open to all interested parties and was streamed online as a webcast to allow for remote participants. During the meeting, there was also an opportunity to record interviews with some of the participants for project promotion purposes.

Date: February 5, 2020

Venue: Natural History Museum at Tøyen. University of Oslo.

Language: Norwegian

Agenda:

The final version of the meeting agenda can be found on this link (English version at the end of the document).

Slides used during the meeting can be downloaded here (available just in Norwegian).

Online meeting to release the Alliance for the biodiversity open data in Colombia

SiB Colombia, in collaboration with the National Business Association of Colombia (ANDI), has organized an online meeting to release this Alliance aimed to officially engage new companies to the GBIF community. This meeting was attended by 157 representatives from companies from different business sector such as oil, mining, electricity, manufacture, cosmetic, etc. This event was useful to explain the SiB Colombia’s role in the management of the Colombian biodiversity information, the benefits of these Alliance and project and the following steps for companies to start publishing their biodiversity data.

Date: May 5, 2020

Venue: online. The video recorded during this meeting can be watched here (available just in Spanish).

Language: Spanish

Meeting relevant information:

The presentation used during this event can be downloaded through this link (available just in Spanish).

The reference guidelines for companies interested in publishing biodiversity data in GBIF through SiB Colombia is available here (just in Spanish).

More information can be found on the Alliance website. There is also a report about this webinar in this link.

GBIF.ES webinar: Sharing biodiversity data through GBIF. An invitation to the business sector from Spain

The Coordination Unit of GBIF Spain, in collaboration with the Spanish Initiative for Business and Biodiversity (Biodiversity Foundation) and LafargeHolcim Spain, hosted this online event aimed to encourage Spanish companies to share biodiversity data through GBIF and include this practice among their Corporate Social Responsibility actions. The event gathered 54 professionals from 38 institutions, 26 of them coming from the private sector.

Date: November 12, 2020

Venue: online. The video recorded during this meeting can be watched here (available just in Spanish).

Language: Spanish

Meeting relevant information:

The presentations used during this event and other useful information can be downloaded through this link (available just in Spanish).

More information can be found on the Webinar website.

Webinar: Sharing biodiversity data through GBIF for the private sector in Portugal

The Portuguese GBIF node, together with EDP and CIBIO, host the webinar “Sharing biodiversity data through GBIF for the private sector in Portugal”. This event is addressed to private companies and institutions carrying out biodiversity works in their operations, as for example, Environmental Impact Assessments or Monitoring Programmes.

Date: December 18, 2020

Venue: online. The video recorded during this meeting can be watched here (available just in Portuguese).

Language: Portuguese

Meeting relevant information:

The presentations used during this event and other useful information can be downloaded through this link (available just in Portuguese).

More information can be found on the Webinar website.

GBIF.fr Webinar: Encourage private sector actors to share their biodiversity data via the GBIF global network

The main objective of this event is that French companies are aware of and integrate the publication of biodiversity data through GBIF among their actions around sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. The webinar is open to any person and institution although it is mainly aimed at companies that process data on biodiversity as part of their activities (eg: restoration actions, environmental impact studies, environmental advice, volunteering environmental, etc.).

Date: January 27th, 2021

Language: French

More information and materials at: http://www.gbif.fr/content/webinaire-encourager-les-acteurs-du-secteur-prive-partager-leurs-donnees-de-biodiversite-le

Useful documentation for companies

Below, there are some useful documents for those companies interested in joining the GBIF network and publishing first biodiversity datasets.

• Real use cases based on companies involved in the OpenPSD project. Available just in English (.zip file; 395 Kb)
• Documentation to support the internal authorization process to become a GBIF publisher. Available in English, Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Spain), Portuguese and French.
• Service Level Agreement template to be internally used by companies. Available in English, Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Spain), Portuguese and French.

Project promotional material

• Video “Share biodiversity data through GBIF – an invitation to the private sector” (link to YouTube)

• Leaflet with general information about GBIF, the benefits derived from the biodiversity data mobilisation through GBIF and the steps to follow during the biodiversity data publication process. Available in English, Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Spain), Portuguese, French and Norway.

Datasets published under the project framework

All datasets published during the project implementation period can be found at gbif.org.