On the one hand, it taps into urgent and current policy ambitions at EU, national, provincial and area level. On the other hand, the implementation and monitoring is societally based and addressed by (cultural) landscape organisations and citizens. The greater ambition focuses on 10% area-specific green-blue interconnection of the rural area in order to make a significant contribution to achieving the European obligations regarding the EU Biodiversity Strategy, the Birds and Habitats Directives, the Paris Agreement and the Water Framework Directive.

This seed innovation is working on a basic map, dashboard, crowdsourcing and establishment of an open data cooperation. The landscape register (Landschapselementenregister – arcgis.com) concerns qualitative and quantitative information about landscape elements, the dashboard provides a current, qualitative and quantitative basic file of green and blue landscape elements. This is compiled on the basis of satellite images, aerial photographs and reference files in an innovative and self-learning system. Various geographical files have been used as source material, e.g., the tree crowns from the Tree Register in which each tree has been individually mapped. With crowdsourcing, data is collected and managed by large groups of professionals, volunteers and interested parties.

Volunteers keep track of the condition of the landscape elements in the field. The intention is that each landscape element is periodically monitored from the public road and updated in the register. The initiative is establishing an open data cooperative, where the cooperative way of working serves the interests of the members within its social objective and is a good rights protector of the data (not a for-profit tech company), while also being cost-conscious and focused on continuity of the data. Currently, this seed innovation initiative emphasises the practical and partly, the political sphere. In WP4, DAISY seeks to amplify its transformative potential by broadening actions in all spheres of transformation, in particular, through amplification ‘beyond’ in the personal sphere. It will engage in iterative dialogue with numerous network initiatives, which are growing rapidly involving landscape volunteers, LandschappenNL, Brabant Landscape, Dutch Cultural Landscape, provinces of Overijssel, Gelderland and North Brabant and DataLabGO.