STRDs part 7 : Conclusion

June 15, 2020

t Osa Conservation (OC), data about the sea turtles, their nests and the hatchlings, is written down in note books during the beach patrols. Later, this data is collected in one or more spreadsheets. However, the sea turtle team would like to have a better tool to collect their data (STRDs part 1). In the previous parts of this series, I briefly described and discussed a number of sea turtle databases that I found on the internet. In this blog post, I will draw some conclusions. … More STRDs part 7 : Conclusion

STRDs part 5 : Turtles Uniting Researchers and Tourists (TURT)

June 15, 2020

Earlier I introduced the wish at Osa Conservation‘s sea turtle program for some solution to unify data entry by volunteers during and/or after their beach patrols. In part 5, I will look at TURT which is a crowdsourcing system. Probably launched in 2015, there is an app for iPhone and Android that uses crowdsourcing to … More STRDs part 5 : Turtles Uniting Researchers and Tourists (TURT)

Pandemics and poverty

June 13, 2020

At the offset of this world pandemic, I kept on thinking how the Corona would impact on the most marginalized members of society. As the World Health Organization insisted that we should wash our hands well and often, wear a mask and stay at home whenever possible, I kept on discussing with Frank what would … More Pandemics and poverty