More than 50 participants from 14 countries attended the INFORM Project Inception Workshop at SPREP’s headquarters in Vailima, Samoa in November 2017. Attendees learned about and shared their ideas for how the project can help them compile and catalogue data to assess and improve environmental conditions in the Pacific island region. Soseala Tinilau, Director of Environment in Tuvalu, talks about the need for the central databases the Inform project will provide.