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What is Yellow Pages?

Yellow Pages is a group of databases designed to provide strategic information on the human, institutional and infrastructure resources available in the IOCARIBE Region for ocean and coastal scientific education, research and related services. It is an important component of the "Information Management and Networking System" of IOCARIBE.

The information contained in the IOCARIBE Yellow Pages is a reflection of the actual capacity and potential of the Region to produce information and knowledge about its marine and coastal areas. It allows us to coordinate and rationalize the resources and funds invested for this purpose in the Wider Caribbean Region.

The information contained in Yellow Pages will be useful to end-users, administrators, industry, private sector, general public, scientists, and educators. It will also find useful application in planning and evaluating capacity building programmes and in the management of coastal and marine affairs.

Yellow Pages does not provide scientific information or data, but points the way to obtaining it. That is done by another part of the IOCARIBE "Information Management and Networking System" assigned to specialized scientific nodes, located usually in the Research and Education "Units" in IOCARIBE Member States.

Yellow Pages has been developed based on the marketing and brokerage slogan I "I know who needs what you have and I know who has what you need".

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Updated March /12/01