BIN21 Priorities

BIN21's purpose is to support the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Agenda 21 that followed the Earth Summit at Rio, June 1992. It will do this by facilitating efficient access to information relating to all aspects of biodiversity.

The goal is to exchange information by electronic means whenever possible, but to include other ways of communication as needed by the network participants. To achieve a global electronic access, support should be provided to regions where facilities do not exist.

Priorities are:

• establish cooperating groups with the purpose of encouraging participation and regional development
• collaborate with existing centers
• design and develop a Directory of Biodiversity Information Resources, drawing on existing directories.
• link many different sources of information across the world
• give attention to the information needs of local communities, scientists, teachers, natural resource managers, policy makers, regulatory and legislative agencies and public interest groups. The needs of the user community will be actively sought to enable their requirements to be met more effectively.
• encourage the open exchange of information on a worldwide basis
• encourage the standardisation of methodology of information exchange in collaboration with existing initiatives.

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