Facilitating access to biotechnology information

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: facilitation of access to existing information dissemination systems, especially among developing countries; improvement of such access where appropriate; considering development of a directory of information. It also recommends that steps should be taken to increase access both to existing information about biotechnology and to facilities based on global databases.

1. Providing information on biosciences
2. Improving access to information
3. Improving access to databases
4. Disseminating environmental information internationally

1. Providing public information on effects of biotechnology
2. Exchanging information on safe handling and risk management for biotechnology

1. Using biotechnology
2. Providing public information on benefits and risks of biotechnology
3. Increasing accessibility of resources for biotechnology
4. Increasing access to new biotechnology within developing countries
5. Cloning cell lines
6. Advancing clinical molecular medicine

1. Reviewing advances in medical technology
2. Researching biology

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

1. Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service (BINAS)
2. Biotech Life Science Dictionary
3. Biotech: An Interactive Educational Resource And Biotechnology Reference Tool
4. Bioinformatics and the Developing World
5. Eldis Biotechnology and Microbiology Sources
6. Molecular Biology Protocols on the World Wide Web
7. THE DISCOVERY OF RIBOZYMES
8. BioSpace
9. National Center for Biotechnology Information