Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources

The Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission will develop a digital application to collect and manage relevant cultural and environmental information related to the restoration of Kaho‘olawe Island. Project activities include developing, testing, and implementing collection protocols for gathering data through cultural and traditional practices, developing the digital application and data management system, and providing staff training on data collection, management, and digital application use. The resulting app and related protocols will allow users to record, collect, and organize consistent and accurate data in real time, and in a standardized format, making it more manageable and easier to analyze by current and future cultural and environmental stewards of Kaho‘olawe. As a result, the overall care, management, and use of the environmental, historical, archeological, and cultural resources on Kaho‘olawe will improve.