Title |
Digital innovation through partnership between nature conservation organisations and academia: A qualitative impact assessment
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Published in |
Ambio, October 2015
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DOI | 10.1007/s13280-015-0704-2 |
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Authors |
Carlos Galán-Díaz, Peter Edwards, John D. Nelson, René van der Wal |
Abstract |
Nature conservation organisations increasingly turn to new digital technologies to help deliver conservation objectives. This has led to collaborative forms of working with academia to spearhead digital innovation. Through in-depth interviews with three UK research-council-funded case studies, we show that by working with academics conservation organisations can receive positive and negative impacts, some of which cut across their operations. Positive impacts include new ways of engaging with audiences, improved data workflows, financial benefits, capacity building and the necessary digital infrastructure to help them influence policy. Negative impacts include the time and resources required to learn new skills and sustain new technologies, managing different organisational objectives and shifts in working practices as a result of the new technologies. Most importantly, collaboration with academics was shown to bring the opportunity of a profound change in perspectives on technologies with benefits to the partner organisations and individuals therein. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
Canada | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 113 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 21 | 18% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 17% |
Researcher | 17 | 15% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 9% |
Lecturer | 7 | 6% |
Other | 23 | 20% |
Unknown | 18 | 15% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Environmental Science | 27 | 23% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 14 | 12% |
Social Sciences | 14 | 12% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 13 | 11% |
Engineering | 7 | 6% |
Other | 21 | 18% |
Unknown | 21 | 18% |