All ecodb license types share in platform revenue

We offer four ongoing categories of license which will support a diverse range of requirements and a free to access public domain of published data (plus a two-week interim evaluation license):

1. Corporate licenses are designed for organizations that have a requirement for significant environmental data and comprehensive evaluation and review functions.

These requirements may range from large citizen science projects with multiple groups participating; emissions compliance, having a legal requirement to store and report on operations where there is a need to monitor the efficiencies of diverse manufacturing plant; through to government entities responsible for geographic areas that have the mandate to collect large amounts of data to accomplish their mission and who wish to support ‘open government policies’.

This Ecodb license is comprehensive and is designed to augment the requirement for in-house data storage and most analytical systems. Bespoke functions can be provided on request.

2. Retail licenses are optimal for the professional environmentalist; consultant; citizen scientist; farmer; hobbyist; or private contractor to support a project or client and where typically a single user access is required.

The Retail license is a low cost mechanism to augment legacy in-house information systems to publish their data sets to the commons facilitated by ecodb.

3. Academic licenses are particularly usefull and can be expanded to include unlimited sub-accounts for team based collaboration. This license is valuable for citizen science and student projects where large numbers are involved in data collection and where additional sub-accounts can be easily added, and with a License Manager feature controlling data deletions.

It is also designed for research institutions that require comprehensive analytical functions and sophisticated data manipulation, search and data acquisition facilities, as well as the ability to privately share or publicly list data.

4. "VAR" for Value Added Reseller are for eco-entrepreneurs who can add value to either their own or public domain data to publish this data through our ecodb.org platform. Our VAR licences also have Account Manager privileges, revenue match for their account's revenue streams, and exclusive territories.

Public domain. The public domain of ecodb enables the publication of productive and valuable environmental data sets where the community can freely search, review and download this data in a variety of formats. Only ecodb licensees can publish to this public domain, and this feature potentially enables them to monetize their data sets each month onging.