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In this blog forest professionals around the world share their ideas and experiences on forest information management and sharing with the global forestry community. Besides the blog posts you can find GFIS workshop material here.
27 Oct · Tue 2009
Challenges in sharing forest information today, WFC2009, Buenos Aires
Challenges in sharing forest information today - Retos en el intercambio de información forestal hoy, Tuesday 20th October at the World Forest Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The event which was orginized by IUFRO and sponsored by ITTO aimed to present how forest information is shared today and find ways to develop co-operative platforms to improve forest information dissemination and use for tomorrow.
Presentations given:
How CAF manages and shares forest information to its audience, Prof. Dr.Li Zhiyong (Chinese Academy of Forestry, China)
The role of Institutions in channeling forest information, Robert Bakiika (Department of Forest Products Engineering. Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation. Makerere University, Uganda)
Esfuerzos de la FAO en el establecimiento de redes de bibliotecas, Vanda Ferreira dos Santos. (FAO, Italy)
Modelo de integración: Sacando provecho de las bibliotecas de América Latina y el Caribe, Federico Sancho (IICA Costa, Rica).
Future development of the GFIS gateway, response to users and partners feedback, Eero Mikkola (IUFRO, Finland)
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