Pre-competitive collaboration utilizes a collective approach to bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to create new technologies and solutions benefiting a shared industry. Diverse efforts can be streamlined into solving systematic problems utilizing multiple industry perspectives.

Quick Carbon is a growing academic research initiative and protocol for rapidly assessing soil carbon contents across landscapes. Quick Carbon creates an accessible measurement system that empowers individuals to generate reliable soils carbon data for the purpose of ecological understanding, decision making, and markets. By providing an inexpensive avenue for measuring soil carbon contents, Quick Carbon allows for researchers to collect hundreds of measurements across landscapes.

Race is used to define someone by their skin color, as well as other physical, social, and biological attributes.

The equal and fair treatment of all races of people.

The Marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people OR is a system of oppression that is used to uphold the power of the dominant racial group, in this case, white people.

In biology, regeneration is the process of renewal, restoration, and growth that makes cells, organisms, and ecosystems resilient to natural fluctuations or events that cause disturbance or damage. Regenerative agriculture is a system of farming principles and practices that increases biodiversity, enriches soils, improves watersheds, and enhances ecosystem services.

Replication of efforts is the conscious process of repeating other’s efforts, and communicating the results of those efforts. Duplication of efforts is the undesired state of isolated problem solving without knowledge of prior or parallel work, or conscious communication of the results of those efforts.

In computer science, a shared library is a collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often for software development. These may include shared data, documentation, and pre-written code that may be common across many projects and therefore does not need to be recreated.

Smart contract might better be referred to as an auto-executable contract. It is a computer protocol intended to digitally facilitate, verify, or enforce the negotiation or performance of a contract. Smart contracts allow the performance of credible transactions without third parties. These transactions are trackable and irreversible.

A collection of modules that can be adaptively deployed to more rapidly develop functional applications without having to build from scratch. For example Apple has an SDK for developing for iOS, and Android has a Java development SDK. An SDK can take the form of a simple implementation of one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) in the form of on-device libraries to interface to a particular programming language, or it may be as complex as hardware-specific tools that can communicate with a particular embedded system. Common tools include debugging facilities and other utilities, often presented in an integrated development environment (IDE). SDKs may also include sample code and technical notes or other supporting documentation such as tutorials to help clarify points made by the primary reference material.