Facilitating Access to Agricultural and National Resource Information in the Developing World: what role for European cooperation?

Abstract

Brief report on a meeting on Facilitating Access to Agricultural and Natural Resource Information in the Developing World: what role for European cooperation? Held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, on 10–11 October 1996. Participants discussed the question: How can real collaboration among European actors be fostered so that assistance provided to developing countries is of a high quality? Threeactions to improve cooperation in respect of European support to information development were proposed: establishing a World Wide Web site, an electronic discussion list and a follow-up group, which decided to concentrate initially on the themes of training, connectivity, experiences from the field, and policy development.