Community Marketplace Initiative Working Group

Charter: Community Marketplace Initiative for the Wildfire Science & Technology Commons

Background:
The Wildfire Science & Technology Commons (WSTC) believes that avoiding devastating wildfires requires urgent, innovative, and collaborative solutions. The Wildfire Science & Technology Commons is a bold new initiative designed to accelerate technological innovations for wildfire management and mitigation. We are building a community platform around open data, cutting-edge science, AI, and shared knowledge.

Our mission is to bring people together to break down the barriers that currently exist between wildfire-related data, models, and tools. Today these resources are siloed, which slows down innovation. We have the opportunity to create a seamless, smart platform to enable solutions that revolutionize how we understand, respond to, and prevent wildfires.

Purpose:
The Marketplace will provide clear, standardized indicators of the quality, relevance, and impact of shared resources, promoting both recognition and trust across the community. The marketplace will have established recognition criteria and badges for community members to encourage best practices, collaboration, and visibility of important wildfire-related contributions.

The purpose of the Community Marketplace Initiative is to:

Scope:
The Community Marketplace Initiative will:

Duration:
The Community Marketplace Initiative will be reviewed annually to ensure it aligns with the evolving needs of the Wildfire Science and Technology Commons. Badges will continue to be awarded as long as the Wildfire Commons platform is active, with updates to the badge system as needed.

Process:

Outcomes:



Working Group Nominations accepted at: https://forms.gle/89XhjEKwzrSye8SG9