A background paper for FARA.RAIS Workshop
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