Programming Opportunities for the Global Biodiversity Observation Network

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Programming Opportunities for the Global Biodiversity Observation Network at PROPL 2025, where Jean-Michel Lord (with Jamie M. Kass, Andrew Gonzalez, Michael Dales, and Anil Madhavapeddy) ay out the overall state of global biodiversity observations via the global Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs) community of practice.

We describe the digital infrastructure behind them, and offer a set of provocations and opportunities towards motivating computer scientists to contribute towards some of the challenges. We believe that a wide array of contributions from programming languages, distributed systems and security all have a role to play in the meeting the urgent challenge to conserve biodiversity in the coming years.

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