Outreach to regional conservation leaders' group

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Jen Higbid to coordinate outreach of TSC to Regional Conservation Leaders' group. Members:

• Dan Coffey (A/Dir Fire&Regional)
• Stephen vL (A/Dir BCS)

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SVL will organise

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Notes

Renee Evans Prio framework

Actions

• Renee Evans: cons actions TSC <> CSV <> regions
• Gap: data capture and entry
• Get RE's decision trees - what is the overlap with TSC? Reports listing assets which fit criteria?
• Coral: not only cons officer work, but also other staff's work needs to be considered
• Deon: cross-regional comms and collab on planning - what if the same asset occurs in several regions
• Juanita: systems need to be connected
• Anthony: humans make decisions, humans must communicate
• Brett: should not be a data-driven pile of everything
• Deon Utber, Sarah Comer: Appsheet digital forms > OneDrive

Megan Barnes, Devision Scientist

• 278 cognitive biases
• Zero risk bias: no decision until sure it works
• Maximise fundability: align with values and needs of funding agencies

Data for Decisions

Megan and Florian End game: Trustworthy, timely data is discoverable and accessible and usable (license) to inform defensible decisions Components:

• data classification and data sensitivity mitigation framework
• data publishing framework
• data catalogue (DBCA, WA, AUS, INTL)

Conservation actions

Ecosystem of processes involved in cons actions

• Juanita: master list of cons actions for burn plans
• Cons actions repo: TSC?
• Regions contribute to cons actions using spreadsheet
• spreadsheet goes back into TSC
• Prio framework: Renee Evans
• Implementation and reporting by regions
• Report submissions via app
• Compliance and DAS: Jody
• Analysis: actions and impact: Deon
• Reporting: Rmd, wastdr, Florian
• Weeds app uploads into QA into FloraBase

Cons actions Renee:

• Region / district - from EOO or AOO or a manual mapping?

• Population = area code?

• Need WACensus name ID

• Source of data?

• Cons activity location point

• Upload actions to TSC

• Download as CSV

• Regions to fill in

• How will multiple regions fill in data into the same row?

• App: cons activity - needs cons actions loaded live from TSC

Digital transformation

Regions already use apps. Neither new nor unusual.

Needs

• Overarching need for digital data capture
• Overarching need to link up ddc clearinghouses to spot for data
• Overarching need for a strategic plan of what data goes where
• Overarching need for report automation - support: documentation, training, initial creation and ongoing maintenance

Solutions

• Appsheet.com: Deon, Sarah. $$
• Cybertracker: Brett Beecham, Ben Corey
• Fulcrum: Tjokkie (3 seats) $$$
• ArcCollector: Weeds, Flora survyes, Anne Harris? $$$
• OpenDataKit: Turtles, Spotlighting FaunaFile, Flora Quadrats Adrian Pinder and Mike Lyons
• BioSys collector: Paul Gioia, Ben Corey discussed possible app, OEH NSW Koala app, coming up to become DBCA standard

Integration

• Many solutions for digital data capture
• ETL to API requires only one script / orchestration per source

Challenges

• Capture same data / comparable data
• Many apps / forms applicable to each user role / scope / place - need to reduce confusion or a map "what data goes in which form"