August 12-14, 2003, Cancun, Mexico

Cooperation Between the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the IABIN Council

Memorandum of Cooperation between The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and The Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network

This was the largest biodiversity informatics conference in history. The meeting brought together key participants in the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN) and the Clearing-house Mechanism (CHM) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Also participating were the CHM Program Director of the CBD Secretariat, Marcos Silva; the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Node Managers from the GBIF member countries in the Americas; representatives of international and national NGOs; academic institutions; state, local, and tribal governments; and the private sector. Gladys Cotter, USGS Associate Biologist for Information and Chair of the IABIN Council, presided at the meeting together with the Jorge Soberón, elected as CHM Chair for this meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to harmonize the visions of IABIN, CHM, and GBIF for biodiversity information networking in the Americas and jointly plan complementary activities that support the goals of these initiatives.

Preliminary Agenda
Official CBD Provisional agenda 
Official CBD Annotations to the provisional agenda

Plenary presentations: CHM Secretariat | Subregional results | GBIF overview | GBIF standards | Executive agency | Hub process | Hub - Argentina/USA | Hub - OAS | Standards - PIP | Standards - Colombia | PDF process  |

Extrasessional presentations: AndinoNet [abstract] | BioNet [abstract] | Brazil priorities | Colombia Network | European network | Important Bird Areas  | Species link | Visual MABFlora/Fauna 

General documents: IABIN agenda Thursday | Summit of the Americas | Funding motion | PIP timeline | Verbal comments

Discussion papers: Ecosystems | Invasives | Protected areas | Global Taxonomy Initiative | Pollinators

Presentations: Project management | Argentina | Brazil | Dominican Republic | Ecuador | El Salvador | Jamaica | Paraguay | USA  

Handouts: Questions | I3N section of PIP draft | Search | Tools | DTD | URL list | Cataloguer keywords | Geographic keywords | Addresses

Background documents: IABIN-CHM MOC | IABIN Secretariat Solicitation