Guardian Connector Documentation
Welcome to the Guardian Connector documentation hub! This comprehensive resource provides guidance for understanding and using Guardian Connector to support community organizations’ guardianship, data sovereignty, and environmental monitoring needs.
Content last revised: October 13, 2026
What This Documentation Covers
This documentation provides comprehensive guidance for:
🏗️ Overview
The ideas behind the platform: design principles, who it is for, whether Guardian Connector fits an organization, and answers to common questions.
📚 Reference
How the parts of the platform work and relate to each other — the toolkit, integrations, companion applications, and workflows for bringing data in, monitoring and sharing it, and getting it back out.
🎓 Guides
Step-by-step tutorials for tools and practices used alongside Guardian Connector, from mobile data collection and biodiversity monitoring to land monitoring and Indigenous data sovereignty.
User Personas
Not everyone uses every layer of Guardian Connector. Different user personas typically operate different parts of the stack. For example:
- An Indigenous Tech User of any experience level may only use the data collection applications that feed into Guardian Connector.
- An advanced Indigenous Tech User may also handle some basic configuration of views or dashboards.
- An Indigenous Decision Maker may only access dashboards and data views, and will not need to know much more about the technical details of the system.
- An Organizational Power User may administer the entire stack, sometimes with support from a Technical Support Partner, and in other cases entirely on their own.
We use User Personas tags to point you toward content written for a given role and experience level. Look for persona tags at the top of each page — they show who that page is for, and you can click a tag to see more pages marked for that audience.
Guardian Connector represents a commitment to Indigenous data sovereignty and community-controlled monitoring. These docs will help you harness its full potential for community conservation and advocacy work.