Inter-American Workshop on Access to Environmental Data

A summary of an Inter-American workshop on access to environmental data, just released, provides a good survey of regional and global initiatives and scientific, technical, policy and institutional issues. "Scientists in many Latin American countries already have significant capabilities and data resources that would be of benefit to North American researchers through increased collaboration. Latin American researchers similarly would be afforded new or enhanced capacity-building opportunities and greater exposure to North American data management principles and know-how of direct relevance to their activities."