Community science, or the involvement of the public in expanding scientific knowledge and understanding, is becoming more and more widespread in environmental and public health programs at the local, state, and national levels. The use of community-collected data to help address environmental issues presents both opportunities and challenges for government agencies.

This session will showcase results from an EPA-funded project at the Environmental Law Institute that is assessing how different state and tribal environmental programs use community science.  Panelists will review and discuss a diverse set of state and tribal case studies. The goals are to: 1) learn about different types of state and tribal community science programs that can serve as models; 2) analyze different program’s operations and best practices, and; 3) engage the audience in their ideas for how EPA, states and tribes can better partner on community science programs.

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• Better coordinate their IT systems and services;

• Improve collaboration using shared data, and;

• Reimagine ways to use technology to achieve better environmental outcomes and provide more responsive services to the public and the regulated community.

This webinar will begin with a brief introduction to the key principles of the E-Enterprise Digital Strategy and a conversation about how the drinking water program is applying it to the modernization of the Safe Drinking Water Information System. The bulk of the webinar will focus on the Information-Centric principle of the E-Enterprise Digital Strategy. We will explore examples that show how agencies are making their data available as a service and the benefits of doing so.

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