Christine Fournier I3N Coordinator
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Christine Fournier I3N Coordinator 6 th IABIN Council Meeting Bayahibe, Dominican Republic July 14, 2009
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IABIN Invasive Species Information Network (I3N). Christine Fournier I3N Coordinator. 6 th IABIN Council Meeting Bayahibe, Dominican Republic July 14, 2009. I3N Network and Participants. 20 active countries National Leads in each country Capacity building through grants - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Christine FournierI3N Coordinator
6th IABIN Council MeetingBayahibe, Dominican Republic
July 14, 2009
• 20 active countries• National Leads in each country• Capacity building through grants and training for sharing data• Coordinated by the US Geological Survey (USGS)
18 governments supporting national I3N leads
BioNET Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD) GEKKO/Universidad del Sur
(Argentina) Global Invasive Species Information
Network (GISIN) (Denmark, Argentina, Great Britain,
Malaysia, China, Morocco, Zambia, New Zealand, Germany, USA)
Guyra Paraguay (Paraguay) InBio (Costa Rica) Institute of Jamaica (Jamaica)
The CBD “… The CBD “… welcomes the ‘I3N’welcomes the ‘I3N’ … and calls on … and calls on the Global Environment Facility, Parties, the Global Environment Facility, Parties,
Governments, and relevant organizations to Governments, and relevant organizations to support and participate in these initiatives” support and participate in these initiatives”
(Decision VI/23)(Decision VI/23)
Instituto Horus, CRIA (Brazil) Integrated Taxonomic
Information System (ITIS) IUCN Invasive Species
Specialist Group (ISSG) Global Invasive Species
Database (New Zealand) National Biological Information
Infrastructure, U.S. Geological Survey, USAID, US State Department (USA)
NatureServe TNC South America Invasive
Species Program
Country Invasives Database Content building grants Tools for Decision Making Training workshop module
Water HyacinthV. Dalke
Tools for creating/exporting/displaying standardized databases invasive species lists, characteristics, experts,
projects Information standards and guidance Bilingual search tool for national inventories
Cross-country search and display (beta) Internet hosting of national inventories and
publications at no charge Content-rich bilingual web site Listserv Concepts/informatics training module
Spanish, EnglishG. WilburnZebra Mussel
Microsoft Access 2000 and Web interface (templates for countries) Converting to Open Source in 2009 (PHP and
MySQL) Add marine fields and terminology Add integrated mapping tool and quality control
Spanish, Portuguese, and English versions Detailed user manuals Controlled vocabulary (GISIN, GISD) Integrated Taxonomic Information System
(ITIS) as taxonomic authority Dublin Core Metadata Standard XML export function for exporting data to
other databases
• Supports prevention, early detection, and control
• Based on 28 criteria in 3 categories
• Uses I3N controlled vocabulary
• Enables governments to determine management priorities based on I3N data
• Results can be used in national IAS strategies, reports and policy development
Workshops 2008-2009- Venezuela- Panama- El Salvador- Guatemala- Honduras
Websites in Development• Bolivia• Chile• Dominican Republic• El Salvador• Peru• Venezuela
Joel RotundaLionfish
Invasive Species Port Learning Network
UNEP Biosafety/Biosecurity Project Seeking other collaborative
opportunities to grow the network and apply data in decision making
Japanese HoneysuckleZ. Sutherland
I3N Coordinator Christine Fournier [email protected]
I3N Tools Representatives Silvia Ziller [email protected] Sergio Zalba [email protected]
I3N-US Lead Annie Simpson [email protected]
http://i3n.iabin.nethttp://i3n.iabin.net
Purple LoosestrifeJ. Forman Orth
