The Prototype
Beyond Carbon partnered with the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society at University of California, Berkeley as part of the Ds-Discovery Program in Spring 2025 and created a data prototype that connects global carbon datasets with community-created maps of IPLC conservation practices in Mekar Raya. Right now Big Forest Data tells us a lot about canopy height, land use changes, and vegetation density but accessing (and using) this data for local advocacy is difficult for civil society groups (cost, capacity, data quality issues). Our next goal is to organize 1-2 pilot data wrangling workshops with technologists already embedded in land & forest rights movements, and create a step-by-step toolkit that outlines how to configure locally relevant carbon data from global datasets and calculate the carbon sequestration potential of community-specific conservation traditions.