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Conservation tool design caught in the midst of transdisciplinary negotiations of data accuracy

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In this paper, we describe the challenges of conservation tool design caught in the middle of negotiations of accuracy between natural scientists, indigenous communities and computer scientists. This is contextualised in wildlife activity recordings, plant data collections and map presentations within a transfrontier conservation project in Southern Africa. We adopted a mixed methods approach to investigate data accuracy requirements of a multi-stakeholder collaboration in data collection and information sharing. Participatory Design activities were conducted with the indigenous communities, in the field, as to ensure tools developed fulfill their expectations. Considering the tools as boundary objects we discuss spatial, thematic and temporal accuracy in the context of the multi-stakeholder conservation management. We conclude that the co-design of these tools revealed distinct conceptualisations of accuracy which have implications for further conservation tool designs.

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    1. Africa
    2. Conservation tools
    3. Namibia
    4. Ovahimba
    5. accuracy
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