Expanding scientific information networks

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends developing and expanding regional and global scientific and technological information networks which are based on and linked to national scientific and technological databases. It also recommends processing national data in unified formats and systems and allowing full and open access to the depository libraries of regional scientific and technological information networks. It further recommends promoting submission of national scientific and technological information and databases to global or regional data centres and network systems.

1. Strengthening science and technology information capacity
2. Globalizing information flow
3. Fostering regional cooperation on specialized information services
4. Establishing regional interfacing structures
5. Distributing science and technology

1. Improving international links among networks of natural and social scientists
2. Fostering collaboration among professional organizations
3. Ensuring access to regional scientific and technological information networks
4. Developing networked documentation services in social sciences

1. Strengthening scientific and technological capacity
2. Exchanging information on control technologies for transboundary air pollution
3. Disseminating technological information

1. Researching network-based information strategies
2. Funding scientific information networks on the environment

1. Unscientific
2. Nonglobalized
3. Misinformation
4. Information
5. Disinformation
6. Deformation