Trust-Informed Data Exchange
Machine-readable trust technology that keeps community authority, provenance, permissions, attribution, and benefit-sharing connected to environmental intelligence.
Environmental knowledge increasingly flows into research platforms, government systems, AI applications, restoration projects, and financial decisions. TIDEmark ensures that the source, authorization, and obligations do not disappear as the information moves.
FPIC establishes the decision. TIDEmark makes its conditions operational across digital systems.
Trusted across our partner network
Environmental intelligence should not lose its governance when it enters a digital system.
Free, Prior and Informed Consent is exercised through the data governance processes of each Indigenous Nation or community. Once environmental knowledge moves into government, research, financial, or AI systems, the original authorization can become separated from the information itself.
Community-approved terms travel with the data.
Through a mobile-first interface, community representatives can see who is requesting information, what it will be used for, which geography and information categories are involved, and whether attribution, compensation, or benefit-sharing applies. They can approve, restrict, time-limit, update, renew, suspend, or revoke access.
Five components, one chain of trust.
Governance conditions become machine-readable rules.
Approved community conditions are translated into rules a system can enforce, so decisions made in governance carry into software without reinterpretation.
From community decision to governed exchange in four steps.
Governance comes first. The technology is standardized, while cultural safeguards, permitted uses, and benefit-sharing terms stay locally defined.
Community defines the terms
Governance bodies set permitted uses, information categories, geographies, cultural safeguards, and benefit-sharing conditions.
Terms become rules
The TIDEmark Engine converts those conditions into machine-readable permissions.
Requests are evaluated
Institutions and AI systems request through the governed API and receive only what was authorized.
Use is recorded and revocable
Every exchange is logged, and authorization can be renewed, restricted, suspended, or withdrawn at any time.
Authority for communities, provenance for institutions.
The same records that keep community authority active give institutions stronger provenance and more reliable environmental intelligence.
Indigenous Nations and communities
Retain authority over ecological knowledge as it moves into government, research, financial, and AI systems.
What TIDEmark governs.
TEK-informed site assessments
Traditional Ecological Knowledge-informed assessments released only under the conditions the authorizing community set.
Watershed baselines
Baseline water conditions governed for use in project preparation, permitting, and long-term monitoring.
Restoration findings
Restoration outcomes shared with attribution and benefit-sharing obligations still attached.
Biodiversity trends
Habitat and species trend information released with permitted purpose and duration recorded.
Contamination and monitoring results
Contamination risk, monitoring, and verification results supporting due diligence, risk management, and payment.
What TIDEmark makes possible.
Governance must come before technology; communities remain the source of authority over their data.
Questions we get about TIDEmark.
TIDEmark is ProgramEarth's machine-readable trust technology for keeping community authorization, provenance, permitted-use conditions, attribution, and benefit-sharing obligations connected to environmental intelligence wherever it travels.
Environmental intelligence can travel. Its source, authority, permissions, and community obligations travel with it.
Tell us how you need to request or govern environmental intelligence, or email team@programearth.org.