Welcome to Spandan, the bip

Welcome to Spandan, the biodiversity inventory by people!

Citizens movement in biodiversity information management has finally began with the launch of Spandan, the bip on 23rd February 2010.

Spandan, the biodiversity inventory by people (http://www.spandan-bip.org) is conceived as the citizens movement with an aim to publish 100's of millions biodiversity observation records during the 2010, International Year of Biodiversity.

What is in name?

Spandan, is a Sanskrit word meaning alive and pulsating. Every biodiversity observation is in true sense a ‘living pulse’, which indicates that Mother Earth is full with life, and its environment suitable enough to support diverse life forms. Further, who else other than humanity can best record these ‘living pulses of Mother Earth’, which can in turn help in understanding nature and conserving biodiversity. Thus, we chose the name ‘Spandan, the biodiversity inventory by people’ to this ambitious project.

An appeal for participation:

Come join us in caring for nature, by sharing biodiversity observation records. You can participate to Spandan, the bip in various capacities.

• Contribute biodiversity observations: Every citizen of the globe is invited to contribute the biodiversity observation.

• Validation and Taxonomic Identification: Biodiversity experts can offer data validation and taxonomic identification services.

• Media and Public Relations: Spandan, the bip request individuals to contribute towards developments of print and electronic publicity of the project.

• Infrastructure: Members of IT industry and persons with programming skills are invited with offer for sustainable infrastructure for projects, mirroring, multilingual sites, and efficient search engine developments.

• International Coordination: Research institutions, civil society organizations, and federal agencies and local communities are invited to contribute towards international coordination of the project.

• Campaigns and competitions: Share your ideas for holding Spandan, the bip campaign and competitions. Help us coordinating one such campaign or competitions.
  

• Funding: Financial support to meet the project cost and towards holding campaigns and competitions from potential donors will be greatly appreciated.

• Strategic Partnerships: Spandan, the bip team welcomes institutions, organizations and initiatives with interest in biodiversity conservation and ‘free and open access’ to biodiversity data to become strategic partners in this initiative.
  

Contact US:
Coordinator
Spandan, the bip (the biodiversity inventory by people)
WORLD INSTITUTE FOR NATURE (WIN)
A 403, Palladium Grand, S.No. 17/1A/2
Dhanori, Lohogaon Road, Dhanori
Pune 411035, INDIA
Tel. +91 20 27028017
Email: spandan[at]worldnatureinstitute[dot]org