Third Workshop of the Series: Forests (2010)
Workshop for indigenous and local communities in Latin America and the Caribbean on information technologies, tourism and biodiversity in forest ecosystems
Taller para comunidades indígenas y locales de América Latina y el Caribe sobre nuevas tecnologías de la información, turismo y biodiversidad en ecosistemas forestales
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The SCBD organized the third workshop of the series on new information and web-based technologies, in partnership with UNEP ROLAC in Panama, and with support from the Government of Spain. The thematic of the third workshop is forest basins. It focussed on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a region where several indigenous and local communities have developed tourism products in and around forest areas. Participants in the workshop used web-based tools to more effectively communicate the biodiversity concepts of their biodiversity-friendly tourism products. This workshop brought together more than 20 participants from Latin America and the Caribbean. The workshop took place in Panama City, Panama, 6-8 April 2010.
As was for the first and second workshops,
The main objectives of the workshop were:
- To support the development and management of biodiversity-friendly tourism activities;
- To support new information and web-based technology capacity of indigenous and community-based tourism operators;
- To support the marketing of culturally and biologically sustainable aspects of indigenous tourism products via Internet;
- Network and exchange information; share and compile approaches to specific challenges in order to develop best practices;
- Use successful tools from the previous workshops and refine them for application by current participants and future workshops.
Workshop Participation:
Participants were selected according to the following criteria:
- Participants are from a country in the Latin America and Caribbean region;
- Participants are indigenous or traditional community leaders in tourism as entrepreneurs, policymakers or advisors, and active in existing and functioning tourism operators. The tourism products they manage include areas with significant biodiversity (parks, community or private protected areas in forest ecosystems);
- Participants, or their constituents or representatives, should have access to the Internet and worldwide web-based tools for information, marketing, and networking;
- Participants can disseminate the methodology and results of the workshop within existing networks and of their home region of origin, after the workshop; and
- Geographical and gender balance, cost of transportation and significance of indigenous tourism in each area will also be used as additional criteria.
Read the summary of the event in the
CBD Monthly Bulletin of Activities, April 2010, page 3.
For more information, read the meeting documents, click here to see the first Notification, and here to see the second Notification.
To see the workshop in the news, visit
IUCN and read more about the award via a series of web 2.0 tools on
Planeta.com
