Not designed specifically for wildlife marketplaces, but SMART Collect can be used for citizen science and community reporting projects.

DeerLab.com's trail camera software was built to manage and analyze photos. It's a cloud-based web application that has a number of features, from photo recognition to manual tagging of any animal. While geared toward hunters, it's also used for camera trap studies. 

Biologists without Borders has developed a free mobile app (i of the Elephant) that lets the public report where ivory is being sold.  We send our reports of ivory being offered for sale to US Fish and Wildlife, State wildlife agents, National Whistleblowers Center, and the Department of Homeland Security for investigation and prosecution. So far, our intel has led to six successful prosecutions in the US.  It can be used anywhere in the world. 

I replied to one of your other posts with this so apologies if you're seeing it twice, but have you tried Vulcan's EarthRanger? That's the only thing I can think of that hasn't already been mentioned (SMART, CyberTracker, etc.).

I just thought of something else that might be an option - Miradi Share (https://www.miradishare.org/ux/home). 

Kobocollect could be adapted to and easy to use: https://www.kobotoolbox.org/

Thanks for posting Carlybatist - very interesting link.

A couple of our WildTrack users have asked about the possibility of collecting our footprint data through the SMART app. Does anyone know a developer connected with SMART who might be able to help us discuss this possibility? Thank you!

Zoe

Great initiative. Very detailed and many features. Wondering how nothing like this exists yet.  One thing I'm thinking of is privacy. For many folks on the front line that I know (many of which indigenous persons) posting anyting that would be traceable to them in any way would be a real risk. I probably didn't read carefully enough sorry.

Theun Amsterdam

I definitely think it's a great idea! I think some of the reasons there are country-by-country versions of initiatives like this are because of country-specific laws, regulations, privacy restrictions, level of enforcement, etc. There is also the issue of multi-national organizations such as WWF, WCS, FFI, etc. who may be working in some areas alongside local, community-led initiatives. You'd just want to be careful that there was equitable distribution of reports. On that note, internet access and smartphones may not be available in many places globally. I work in Madagascar and this would definitely be a problem. Perhaps allowing some sort of retroactive reporting, so someone who saw something but didn't have internet could at least report it the following week when they are back at a research station or town, for example. 

I would worry too about the users reporting illegal activity and what specific security protections are in place to ensure any personally-identifiable information cannot be leaked. It might be worth thinking about how those engaging in the illegal activities themselves may try to weaponize an app like this, e.g., a large-scale mining operation reporting individuals from the community for cutting down trees (the scale of one versus the other is very different, but company-backed illegal activity will have more resources than an indigenous tribe, for example). Given how corrupt officials in different goverment agencies help perpetuate shady business dealings, there could be targeted or inequitable enforcement based on reports like this. 

I would recommend reaching out to folks specifically embedded in this space, such as the people at TRAFFIC, TRACE (wildlife forensics), etc. The folks at SMART will likely have good ideas, and already have some of the functionality you're describing (albeit focused on rangers and park officials rather than the general public at large).

Hi writer (I didn't get your name ;-),

if you like we can talk for 30min or so to review your solution. There are a number of them out there, including our Cluey Data Collector & Tracking app.

The main things that we wanted to solve was:

• ease to start a project (without requiring the user to understand things like data-models etc.)
• seamless integration with other data sources and (realtime) analytical functions to help rangers optimize patrols etc.
• ease to share observations
• ease to combine/aggregate project 

Would be great to share some ideas and see if we can help each other,

Best,

Jan Kees