A I mentioned above, an example would be the indigenous rangers groups. They’re already taking observations. They’re submitting them to a local database. And visa-versa - there are people in Australia who are submitting observations to iNaturalist. These experts could be sharing knowledge. But at the moment the iNaturalist system is designed so they must each individually join iNaturalist. Why? How does that help?
But what I’m also getting at here is a cultural shift - a way of expanding knowledge exchange so it’s more decentralised. (Happy to discuss more, but will let others speak)