Collaboration
Collaboration is defined here as a consortium of diverse parties, including individuals, organizations, government agencies, NGO, and other interested parties which mutually have an aligned interest in management information systems, and together are committed to develop standardized and widely accepted guidelines on how to establish and strengthen conservation and communication between involved parties through the use of Management Information Systems, as well as to support and strengthen the development, use and integration of information systems in the global conservation community.
DICE Objectives :
Development- To develop standardized pilot study guidelines for sustainable Information Management in conservation.
Implementation - To raise global awareness of the availability, educate about the benefit of use, facilitate access to and monitor worldwide use of Information Systems.
Collaboration- To establish a global collaboration of professionals, entrepreneurs and organizations concerned with Information Systems in conservation and wildlife management.
Evaluation- To share experiences in the use and establishment of Information Systems.
The most successful and cost effective mitigation and intervention actions that are beneficial for management occur by enabling scientifically valid and rigorous data processing issues to be formulated in an understandable and practicable way for all involved staff. This information in turn can and should be shared and communicated to a wider community, as the effectives of conservation efforts are complex and can not always be measured directly at any single scale. Established best practices systems and data sharing methodologies can thus improve the effective use of information for conservation.
Collaboration aims to ensure the ongoing trust in processing data through information managing systems through the exchange of best practices and communication standards. Communication and collaboration between science, public and praxis is essential for the sustainability of any large scale project. As key elements of sustainability in practice, communication and the awareness of dynamically occurring changes and their adequate management are embraced by information systems collaboration through the constant exchange of information between it's members, including educational sessions on various levels.
Collaboration means sharing best practices as well as exploring new options in joint ventures.
It is our aim to fully explore issues regarding the use and the development of management information systems while keeping a lean, agile and efficient organization form for our collaboration from the start and withing its long term approach. We imagine collaboration as a constant impulse source to drive the issues along.
Collaboration is a multidisciplinary collaboration where everyone's expertise and experience is welcome and needed. Members can participate either as individuals in working groups (WGs) or as individuals, entrepreneurs or organizations in the reference groups (RGs). The resulting accrual of expertise is to focus on the development of standardized case definitions and guidelines, and the sharing of knowledge within and outside information systems collaboration, which will benefit conservationists and wildlife managers by providing efficient solutions in information management.
A standardized set of case definitions and guidelines benefits investigators and supporters who conduct conservation studies, as well as conservation workers of diverse backgrounds who make decisions on conservation and who need to obtain, interpret, provide and report information on conservation and wildlife management. Information systems collaboration promotes transparent methodologies for global consumption with best practices including continuous review and revision work output as integral parts of the Collaboration's mission.
Collaboration guidelines
Collaboration is an international collaboration to facilitate the development, evaluation, and sustainability of conservation through the use of Information Systems. The concept of such a collaboration is embedded with the same sustainable project management framework as of information systems.
Collaboration: To work effectively by promoting good internal and external communications through open decision making and teamwork
WorldwideParticipation: To promote global participation
Independence: To keep the information systems collaboration scientifically independent
Multidisciplinary Approach: To involve people of different skills and backgrounds, in order to benefit and build upon their contributions
Generalization: To minimize bias by adhering to a strict scientific approach, ensuring broad participation on all levels and avoiding conflicts of interest
Relevance: To maintain information system documents up-to-date by identifying and incorporating the highest achievable quality of evidence
Accessibility of Work: To facilitate access to information system documents through strategic alliances and diversified choice of media
Responsiveness: To provide quality information by being open and responsive to criticism
Continuity: To maintain continuity of responsibility for information system documents and key functions
Accessibility: To allow broad participation in the work of the information systems collaboration by minimizing obstacles to contributing and promoting diversity