Information and knowledge sharing guidelines for fisheries

A new report from the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department provides technical guidelines on issues involved in information and knowledge sharing in the fisheries sector, paying particular attention to the needs of developing countries.

The Guidelines aim to foster a better understanding of the issues involved so stakeholders can obtain the essential information they need and so they can make available their own information and knowledge for the public good

Topics covered include:

• Fisheries stakeholder groups and the flow of information
  
• Characteristics of fisheries information
  
• Policy frameworks for fisheries information
  
• Access and affordability issues
  
• Finding fisheries information
  
• Generating fisheries knowledge
  
• Publishing fisheries science
  
• Disseminating fisheries information
  
• Availability of fisheries information for future generations
  
• Fisheries information networks and partnerships
  
• Social networking, Web 2.0 and fisheries
  
• Knowledge sharing systems in fisheries
  
• Evolving knowledge sharing networks for fisheries
  
• Evolving collaborative research systems for fisheries eResearch
  

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