ICT TO SERVICE OF THE BIODIVERSITY IN LATIN AMERICA
Did you know there’s an application of the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) to service of the Biodiversity? In fact, the ICT contains database, citizen monitoring of species and early detection of fire are some of the projects which are carrying out in Latin America to preserve the Biodiversity with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). One of those tools is the International Platform of Information about Biodiversity (Global Biodiversity Information Facility – GBIF ), a system based on the Internet which allows the free access to information about World Biodiversity at which 60 countries take part in, including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay and Brazil. According to World Bank data, Latin America is the leader in conservation with 20% of its territory protected, while the average of developing countries is just 13%. Specialists in ecosystems agree with the advance of this subject coul...