REPORT: Data sharing and sovereignty

Proceedings and conclusions of a workshop on biodiversity data sharing and sovereignty

May 2017

Wiser SK, and P. Bellingham 2017. Proceedings and conclusions of a workshop on biodiversity data sharing and sovereignty. Landcare Research Contract Report LC2792. 23 p.

OBJECTIVES

New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenged contracted Landcare Research to hold a national workshop with the aims of:

• contributing to national initiatives relating to data stewardship, with a focus on the complex issues surrounding biodiversity data collected on private land, including Māori land

• pulling together the ‘best national team’ to develop a proposal to the Challenge on this topic that links to other Challenge-funded efforts