Planning Documents, background studies, PRESENTATIONS

• Technical Assistance for the Launch of IABIN. Support for the Technical Conference for the Implementation of IABIN and development of an international IABIN web site. Terms of Reference. This activity was funded in 1999 and 2000 by the Netherlands/World Bank Partnership for the Consolidation of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. (See the World Bank's Central American Environment Projects page for more information.)
  
  
• IABIN Governance: Organization and Coordination of IABIN. An investigation of the organization and coordination of similar information networks and a recommendation of a governance model for IABIN. Final Report; Executive Summary (English); Resumen Ejecutivo (Espaņol); Terms of Reference. The United States Agency for International Development (U.S. AID) provided funding in 1998 for the preparation of this study. 
  
  
• Medium-Term Work Plan for IABIN. An outline of the activities to be accomplished in a 2- to 5-year time frame to implement IABIN. Final Report; Terms of Reference. The United States Agency for International Development (U.S. AID) provided funding in 1998 for the preparation of this study.
  
  
• Information Exchange: Legal and Institutional Issues.
  An investigation of the legal and institutional issues which will need to be addressed by a transnational information network. Final Report; Executive Summary (English); Resumen Ejecutivo (Espaņol); Terms of Reference. The United States Agency for International Development (U.S. AID) provided funding in 1998 for the preparation of this study.

• Information Exchange: Technical Issues.
  An investigation of the technical challenges which will be encountered in inter-connecting information systems throughout the Western Hemisphere. Final Report; Executive Summary (English); Resumen Ejecutivo (Espaņol); Terms of Reference. The United States Agency for International Development (U.S. AID) provided funding in 1998 for the preparation of this study. 
  
  
• Internet in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  An assessment of current and planned Internet connectivity and communication technologies of IABIN focal points. Final Report; Terms of Reference. The Fundacao Andre Tosello was contracted by OAS to coordinate the preparation of this background paper for the Technical Conference for the Implementation of IABIN held in Brazil.
  
• Harmonizing Metadata Initiatives Throughout IABIN.
  
  
• European Inventory Project.
  
  
• Advanced Training in Technology for Linking Biodiversity Databases: Species Analyst Project.
  
  
• Invasive Species in the Americas Pilot Project.
  
  
• Criteria for Participation of Other Organizations in IABIN Council 
  
  
• Draft Criteria for the Hub
  
  
• An Overview of IABIN, 1997.
  
  
• White Paper on IABIN, March 1997.
  
  
• Information Network Descriptions, March 1997.
  
  
• Financial challenge, 1999.
  
  
• IABIN Genesis: A Brief Summary of the Start-Up of IABIN, July 2000.
  
  
• Presentations and Poster