that attempt to improve the flow of agricultural technological information through Internet
based information and communication technologies (ICTs).
One of these efforts at the regional level is INFOTEC, the Scientific and Technological
Information System for the Agricultural Sector in the Americas, with three years of
operation within IICA¿s platform Infoagro.NET. INFOTEC evolved in response to an
initiative of the Forum for the Americas for Agricultural Research and Technology
Development, FORAGRO. In the INFOTEC platform, tools have been developed to fulfill
the following functions through Internet (and email): maintain the subscribers informed
on the last events in agricultural technology and facilitate the exchange of information
among interested actors.
At the national level, a recent compilation of information systems in operation carried out
by IICA