Accessible participation
Text, voice messages, photos and location make data collection fit the routines of people who live and work in the area.
Participatory environmental monitoring
We turn community reports into environmental intelligence.
We connect the knowledge of fishers and local communities with the decisions researchers and managers make. Using WhatsApp and artificial intelligence, we organize field data for research, conservation and environmental management.
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The challenge
Monitoring an area still relies on small teams, scattered spreadsheets and occasional field visits.
Fisheries and environmental monitoring programs often rely on paper notes, infrequent field visits and small teams covering large areas. The knowledge of people who are there every day rarely reaches decision-makers in a structured form.
The result is fragmented data that cannot inform public policy, scientific research or environmental management as often as the area needs.
Today
Paper notes
Infrequent field visits
Small teams, large areas
With Syncorp
Records organized by project and area
What your organization gets
A platform connecting fieldwork, research and management.
Syncorp brings together WhatsApp data collection, organized records and indicator dashboards. Your organization's monitoring program is the starting point.
Organized data
Records linked to the project and activity locations make it easier for teams to review and retrieve information.
Information for decisions
Dashboards and indicators help teams track activity and turn records into useful knowledge.
In our first conversation, we work together to define the area, participants, variables and indicators needed to scope the implementation.
How it works
From a WhatsApp report to a dashboard indicator.
Report
Participants send text, voice messages, photos or location through WhatsApp. Data collection uses a familiar channel, with no additional app to install or dedicated sensors to purchase.
Interpretation
Artificial intelligence interprets reports and organizes details such as species, quantity, date and location according to the project's variables.
Structured records
Records are organized by project and area. Teams can review information and resolve outstanding issues before using it in their analyses.
Insights
Researchers and managers consult records and indicators in the dashboard to track activity, understand the area and inform decisions.
Field experience
Technology for fisheries monitoring.
Through a research and development partnership with the Instituto de Pesca do Estado de São Paulo, we apply the platform to participatory inland fisheries monitoring. Reports sent by fishers through WhatsApp feed into records of catches, fishing effort and activity locations.
This experience brings together technology, research and local knowledge. It guides the platform's development and its adaptation to new areas and monitoring programs.
Area
Inland fisheries in São Paulo, Brazil
Scientific partnership
Instituto de Pesca do Estado de São Paulo
Collection channel
WhatsApp: text, voice messages and photos
The same infrastructure, new areas
Built to grow beyond fisheries.
Our experience in fisheries opens the way to new applications. Each project requires adapting collection protocols, variables and indicators with the organization responsible. The areas below represent potential applications.
Biodiversity
Monitoring wildlife, plants and habitats across different ecosystems.
Bioeconomy
Data to support sustainable value chains and forest-based enterprises.
Species conservation
Tracking threatened species and conservation programs.
Environmental indicators
Producing environmental indicators for management and public policy.
Value chain monitoring
Social and environmental traceability and structured data throughout the value chain.
Who we serve
For those making decisions about an area.
Public agencies and local governments
Environmental and fisheries monitoring programs in the areas they manage.
Research institutes and universities
Structured field data for scientific research and public policy.
Foundations and environmental organizations
Indicators to track conservation and bioeconomy programs.
Companies with environmental and ESG programs
Organizing data and evidence to support environmental monitoring and value chain programs.
Contact
Let's talk about your area?
Book a demo and tell us about your project: the area, participants, data requirements and monitoring objectives.