Developing national information systems

The Committee 'Information Policies and Programmes (FID/IP)' of the International Federation for Information and Documentation works to identify and promote research in the appropriate aspects of national and regional information policies and programmes to monitor (international) developments in the field.

1. Creating geographic information systems
2. Promoting progress and application of information systems

1. Providing public information on national needs for scientific and technological environmental programmes
2. Networking the environment and development arena
3. Integrating sustainable development information
4. Expanding national capacity to use information on sustainable development
5. Exchanging information to control transboundary air pollution
6. Exchanging information on national use of economic instruments
7. Coordinating intergovernmental information
8. Bridging data gap for sustainable development

1. Researching network-based information strategies
2. Promoting appropriate national information policies
3. Including research results in national multisectoral information bases
4. Improving information exchange among national and international data centres and networks

1. Waging information war

1. Misinformation
2. Information
3. Disinformation
4. Deformation

1. National Information Policy/ National IT Strategies a Survey
2. National Information System for Research and Technology (NISRT)
3. Information networks of Western European and Other States