Providing technology and training for local environmental information services

Developed countries and relevant international organizations should cooperate, in particular with developing countries, to expand their capacity to receive, store and retrieve, contribute, disseminate, use and provide appropriate public access to relevant environmental and developmental information, by providing technology and training to establish local information services and by supporting partnership and cooperative arrangements between countries and on the regional or subregional level.

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.

1. Strengthening local capacity to adapt appropriate technologies
2. Providing training on environmental information technology
3. Providing information services
4. Providing environmental information on the internet
5. Expanding environmental management education and training

1. Informing
2. Improving access to sustainable development information
3. Developing local environmental health action plans

1. Funding scientific information networks on the environment

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