The DATAFORESTS is situated at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS), critical data studies and framed by an institutionalist approach. This project relies on a mixed methodology that combines content analysis, discourse analysis, semi-structured interviews, field observations, socio-legal research methods, and a workshop-as-method approach. Those methods will be used to advance a holistic approach which combines the study of practices, technologies, policies and discourses related to datafication in forest governance in Poland. The DATAFOREST project will enrich the current debate on datafication by providing empirical insights on the use of environmental data technologies from the region (Central and Eastern Europe) that is often omitted in the academic discussion in critical data studies. The broader ambition of this project is also to address limitations recognised within data studies by introducing a more nuanced and theoretically grounded notion of the state as one of the larger forces that shape relations and power structures in technologically mediated environments and exploring relations between the state, natural recourses and technology.