GBIF's data, infrastructure and services support cross-disciplinary research, creating new opportunities for evidence-based science and decision-making. With guidance from the GBIF Science Committee, we monitor signals from who's sharing and using data to pursue strategic opportunities with impact, continuously seeking to improve the quality, relevance and utility of biodiversity data for a wide array of communities across science, technology and policy.
GBIF hosted portals offer simple, customizable websites that support biodiversity data use and engagement at national, institutional, regional and thematic scales. This service, which Participant nodes and their partners can apply to anytime, lowers the technical demands for delivering relevant biodiversity data to communities around the world.
Team consultation at the BID Capacity Enhancement Workshop: Data use for decision-making, Cape Town, South Africa, 11 April 2018. Participants (left to right): Ernest Lamptey, Raymond Owusu-Achiaw, Donald Mpalika, Elizabeth Mwafongo, Jacqueline Sapoama Kumadoh, Hannah Owen. Photo Maheva Bagard Laursen | GBIF, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.