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Make Our Sci data cryptographically signable _ Field Data Collection

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION, APRIL 2020

HCD needs

  • Cacao project use cases for field agent verification tool?

Next steps

  • Teams: Regen Network, Our Sci
  • May not be able to do development work, but Corey + Greg can detail exactly what the next steps are, and how we may separate the 'signable' portion from the 'blockchain' portion.

Features

  • Cryptographically signable
  • Putting the movement / modification of data on the blockchain
UPDATED DESCRIPTION, JUNE 2020

AMENDED JUNE 2, 2020

Discussion around Regen Future Capital as core use case.

Description of use case

@glandua @DanTerAvest PLEASE ADD HERE AFTER CONVERSATIONS WITH REGEN FUTURE CAPITAL to help us map out the use case and generate a map forward.

  1. From @DanTerAvest Use SurveyStack to collect management data for Nori Carbon Removal Marketplace. Regen Future Capital are working with Mad Ag to collect the historical management data from farmers that is needed for entering Nori’s Croplands Pilot Program. Specifically, they are interested in using SurveyStack to create farmer-friendly surveys to collect the required management data from farmers who do NOT have an electronic farm management software platform but are interested in generating NRT’s (Nori Removal Tonnes). They can accomplish much of what they are wishing to accomplish through the existing SurveyStack feature set, but they have identified some specific survey features that can improve data collection for their farmers.
  2. From @glandua ADD HERE BASED ON DISCUSSIONS

Why this use case

  1. They are ideologically aligned
  2. There are funded / have capacity
  3. The certification is compelling (carbon markets are real + exist)
  4. Clear 'usable' initial implementation (SurveyStack crypto signed --> COMET/Nori), and clear future extensions
  5. Interacts w/ many OpenTEAM partners
  6. Development overlaps with other applications (SurveyStack crypto for other use cases, COSM WASM, COMET crypto for other uses, etc.)

Key Feature Set

  1. Using survey-based management data (farms w/out farm management systems farmOS/Granular, etc.) for certification purposes
    • Initial: Carbon Certification using Nori
    • Future: Expanded certifications (grazing MRV), ...
  2. Cryptographic signing of data movement across platforms
    • Initial: Crypto signing from SurveyStack -> Nori -> Comet Farm
    • Next: Expand to other services...
  3. ... PLEASE ADD

AMENDED JUNE 25, 2020

Discussion around Regen Network (Gisel + soil carbon quantification) as core use case.

Description of use case

First use case!!

  • Regen certification for Gisel
    • Gisel is collecting on the ground data (lab data, farm management data, etc.) relating to their soil carbon estimation process
    • Right now this is being done in spreadsheets basically
    • They plan on onboarding more partners using a very similar process, so reducing the effort load and errors in manual translation is important
    • They need to associate this point-based or survey-stype data with fields which are currently stored in QGIS... we could either use our existing farmOS process, or perhaps we could investigate a Integration with QGIS to pull field objects from there as well.
      • shape file + geolocations for the fields
      • management questions about cows + movement of cows
      • QGIS --> spatial locations --> dropdown lists
      • farmOS --> spatial locations -->
        • pull more information into farmOS from satellites...

Why this use case

  1. They are ideologically aligned
  2. There are funded / have capacity
  3. They have active partners + more partners interested in replicating the basic process
  4. Clear 'usable' initial implementation (SurveyStack crypto signed + QGIS --> Regen ledger), and clear future extensions
  5. Interacts w/ many OpenTEAM partners
  6. Development overlaps with other applications (SurveyStack crypto for other use cases, COSM WASM, COMET crypto for other uses, etc.)

Key Feature Set

  1. Using survey-based management data for survey-type data collection within Regen (Gisel)
  2. Cryptographic signing of data movement across platforms (specifically, from SurveyStack to QGIS and/or farmOS)

Report Out Conclusions

Summary

Regen & OurSci met several times over the 4 week align on objectives for this work session, and identify a primary use case to drive the implementation for this work. The objective is to have data from SurveyStack be cryptographically signable so that consumers of this data can verify and know where the claim came from (either SurveyStack, or the SurveyStack user directly).

We discussed using the eco-cacao farm that Terra Genesis International has worked with in the past as the primary use case, but in recent conversations our attention has shifted to working with Regen Future Capital. Regen Future Capital is wanting to integrate with Nori's NRT credit, but they would like to use SurveyStack as the data input layer so that they can collect additional farm management data. Regen would like to work with OurSci and Nori to have this SurveyStack data signed & persisted to Regen Ledger, to later be read from by Nori, or at the very least have the SurveyStack data be cryptographically signed in a format/schema that would be compatible with signing formats of the Regen Ledger.

We ended up identify Gisel in Regen and her work on satellite-based carbon quantification as the ideal use case (see above for details), so we'll be proposing next steps relating to that.

Proposed Next Steps

  • Transition to fully scoped & budgeted Work Package
  • Continue in discovery cycle during next round of Paired Work Sessions
  • Close issue (other work is more important, or there is no further work necessary for this issue)

Plan / Timeline

  1. (ASAP) @glandua @DanTerAvest PLEASE ADD ABOVE after discussions.
  2. (2 weeks) Develop a compelling + achievable vision, as well as a achievable near-term work package to present to Regen Future Capital. @glandua @gbathree @kanedan29 @mark.easter99 @DanTerAvest @ircwaves @clevinson @christophe33
  3. (milestone) Discussion with Regen Future Capital to present map, get feedback and interest
  4. (4 weeks) Revise based on discussions, adjust and clarify to full proposal
  5. (milestone) Decide if we can wrap this into Research Farm Roadmaps subproject year 2, or create a separate work package for year 2.
Edited by Cory Levinson