Vana: the Afforestation Data App

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About the project

We all know we need more trees to help keep our planet cool. We also know that more trees are disappearing and not enough are being planted. Activists are doing all they can to protect our forests, but we all have a part to play in afforestation efforts. The trouble is that when it comes to identifying the land and coordinating replanting efforts, we can’t see the wood for the, erm, trees. In short we lack the data. Luckily we know where to look for it, starting with some of the 3.5 million land titles owned by UK companies. Seeding change starts with growing the available open data on land ownership. By funding Vana you can help nourish the roots of a deliverable tree growing strategy not just in the UK, but scalable to the entire planet where open corporate data exists.

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Meet the team

We have some key players behind this project that have offered their time and resources to get this project off to a running start!

Semantrica Ltd
West of England Initiative
Friends of the Earth
University of Bristol
Suseco
The Woodland Trust
Trees for Cities
West of England Nature Partnership
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HM Land Registry
Corporate Transparency Network

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Latest updates

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Jaya Chakrabarti29/01/2021Phenomenal news: we received seed funding from the South West Creative Technology Network to develop the Vana prototype! We are now seeking to expand our understanding of stakeholder needs. Take a look and see if you can help!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17s6kYO_1zX3OWsxIF3iFYCAj4dgc6peRZg7I_z0eTiE/edit?usp=sharing

Jaya Chakrabarti09/01/2020Thanks to the efforts of our steering board we have the first draft of our pitch deck, now in need of feedback.

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Jaya Chakrabarti18/10/2019We're happy to welcome Trees for Cities on board, both the steering board and in making use of data outputs of the project!

Jaya Chakrabarti15/10/2019Great news - the West of England Nature Partnership has committed to contributing data and to using data Vana generates. We hope we might be able to tempt them to join our steering board for the West of England pilot. They have significant knowledge and network at the strategic level for woodland in the region, perfect for our pilot.

Jaya Chakrabarti11/10/2019We have been invited to join Geovation, the accelerator of Ordnance Survey and HM Land Registry, which gives us unprecedented access to land ownership data and support for Vana. https://geovation.uk/ We're incredibly excited!

Jaya Chakrabarti07/10/2019Great news! Following University of Bristol, the West of England Initiative and Suseco, Friends of the Earth have agreed to join our steering board for the pilot of Vana!