Date: May 29 – June1, 1998

Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Description: The seminar on Strategic Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Environmental Institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean (IT-Eco) brought together 17 grantees from two Fulbright ecology programs administered by LASPAU: the Amazon Basin Scholarship Program and the Central American and Caribbean Ecology Program. The grantees invited to the workshop are current and future leaders of their regions' environmental institution. The seminar and its online resources promoted discussion and debate among the participants on how new information and communication technologies can best further the goals of Fulbright-LASPAU ecology grantees and their home institutions and countries. In addition, LASPAU hosted a web site with research papers, links, and other information relating to the seminar topics and to the participants and their countries and institutions. Participants also exchanging information on an electronic discussion list archived on the web site. These activities provided the curriculum, framed the issues, and allowed for personal networking before the seminar and continued to serve as a resource for the participants upon their return to Latin America.

Sponsor: The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State

Host Institution: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Facilitators: Jerry Mechling (Faculty, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), Winthrop Carty (Faculty, LASPAU), Ricardo Gómez (Faculty, International Development Research Centre), and Tom Parris (Faculty, Harvard University Library)