WAICENT
FAO’s Strategic Program on Information Management and Dissemination (Key to implement component “E” of the Strategic Framework)
Based on a Philosophy of Decentralization
Sound Principles of Information Management
- Strategic use of Metadata and Content Repositories
- Separation of Content, Presentation, & Processing
- Controlled Vocabularies (e.g. AGROVOC)
- Categorization Schemes (e.g AGRIS)
- International & Non-Proprietary Standards (e.g XML)
Cooperation with Internal/External Stakeholders