The LAIA Database - A Secure and Decentralized Platform for Environmental Data

The current big amount of data also brings a question: How much we could trust on the sources we access? At the same time we face a threat of groups considering socio-environmental data as an obstacle for the industrial and agribusiness  interests. LAIA purposes a secure and trusted database where data is protected from censorship and access restrictions at the same time that ensure the trust on accessed data using an effective reputation score method. The paper presents the basic concepts of LAIA database and its potentialities as a safe and efficient platform for academics, citizen scientists and stakeholders.