Category: Ideas & Perspectives Abstract / Executive Summary As artificial intelligence (AI) moves from isolated analytical tools into operational workflows, the central governance question is no longer simply whether an AI system is accurate. It is whether people can understand, supervise, challenge and, when necessary, override AI outputs at the points where those outputs can […]
Category: What’s Happening Abstract / Executive Summary Biodiversity underpins food systems, freshwater security, climate resilience, public health, and economic productivity. Yet the world continues to lose species and ecosystems at an unprecedented rate while investment in conservation and restoration remains substantially below what is required. The adoption of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) in […]
Category: Ideas & Perspectives Abstract / Executive Summary As organisations increasingly rely on digital information, preserving knowledge over decades has become a strategic challenge rather than a purely technical one. While substantial investment has been made in data collection and digital transformation, many institutions continue to lose valuable organisational knowledge through staff turnover, changing technologies, […]
Category: What’s Happening Abstract / Executive Summary In the digital economy, organisations increasingly depend on data to support scientific research, public administration, financial oversight, environmental monitoring, and artificial intelligence (AI). Yet data only becomes valuable when it can be trusted. Verifiable data is information whose origin, integrity, authenticity, and history can be independently confirmed through […]
Category: Ideas & Perspectives Abstract / Executive Summary For more than two decades, digital transformation has often been equated with digitisation: converting paper records into digital formats, moving services online, and automating administrative processes. While these initiatives improve operational efficiency, growing evidence from governments, international institutions, and digital governance research suggests that digitisation alone does […]
Category: Eywa Explains Abstract / Executive Summary Metadata is commonly described as “data about data”, yet this definition captures only part of its significance. In contemporary digital systems, metadata provides the contextual information that enables data to be discovered, interpreted, shared, governed, and preserved over time. From photographs and satellite imagery to scientific datasets, government […]
Category: What’s happening Abstract / Executive Summary As governments accelerate digital transformation, the question is no longer whether public institutions should collect data, but how they should share it responsibly. Open Data has emerged as a foundational component of modern digital governance, enabling transparency, evidence-based policymaking, innovation, and improved public service delivery. Rather than simply […]
Category: Eywa Explains Abstract / Executive Summary As governments and businesses intensify efforts to address climate change and biodiversity loss, environmental credit markets have expanded beyond carbon into the emerging field of biodiversity credits. Although both mechanisms mobilise private finance for environmental outcomes, they differ fundamentally in what they measure, the ecological problems they address, […]
Category: What’s happening Abstract / Executive Summary Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping environmental monitoring from a reactive reporting exercise into a near real-time decision-support capability. Advances in satellite remote sensing, computer vision, acoustic monitoring, and machine learning now allow governments and conservation organisations to detect deforestation, identify methane emissions, monitor biodiversity, and forecast environmental risks […]
Abstract / Executive Summary As governments, businesses, and international climate funds increasingly rely on carbon markets and results-based climate finance, Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) has become one of the most important institutional systems underpinning climate governance. While carbon credits often receive public attention, the credibility of those credits depends fundamentally on whether emissions reductions […]
