1. Friday, March 5, 2004 9:30 am Session 6 Policy and Institutional Issues Inter-American Workshop on Environmental Data Access

2. KEY ISSUES Data access and management policies and laws in different disciplines/countries/institutions/programs Sustainable funding of environmental data centers/networks/archives Linking scientific data to environmental policy formation Strategies and innovations in data provisioning Underlying Cultural issues

3. Harlan Onsrud, University of Maine, U.S. Clemente Forero-Pineda, University of Bogota, Colombia Cristina Montenegro, Deputy Director of the UNEP Regional Office for LAC Jorge G. Tezon, International Cooperation, CONICET, Argentina Marco Tulio Cabral, Ministry of Foreign Relations, Brazil Harlan Onsrud, University of Maine, U.S. Clemente Forero-Pineda, University of Bogota, Colombia Cristina Montenegro, Deputy Director of the UNEP Regional Office for LAC Jorge G. Tezon, International Cooperation, CONICET, Argentina Marco Tulio Cabral, Ministry of Foreign Relations, Brazil PANELISTS

4. Policy and Institutional Issues Moderator: Bonnie C. Carroll, IIa, USA Rapporteur: Paul Uhlir, NAS, USA Policy and Institutional Issues Moderator: Bonnie C. Carroll, IIa, USA Rapporteur: Paul Uhlir, NAS, USA