Introduction:
AIBDA, the Inter-American Association of librarians and specialists in agricultural information, announces its Fifteenth Meeting called RIBDA 2009. This new invitation comes from Peru as host country and its National Library as location. The main purpose of the meeting is to carry out a debate on Open Access innovations in agricultural and environmental information and share progress in the free transfer and dissemination of knowledge through the Open Access movement(OA) for agricultural, environmental and related sciences in the inter-American community and worldwide.

Objetives:
The XV Inter-American Meeting RIBDA 2009, bet to achieve the following objectives:

1. Discuss progress defining the features, tools, standards and best practices in managing innovation for the free transfer and dissemination of agricultural and environmental knowledge under the Open Access Movement (OA) in the Americas.
2. Identify and analyze the regional context, experience, dynamic agents, products and results achieved in agricultural and environmental information systems oriented to self-transfer and diffusion.
3. Analyze the quality, quantity, timeliness and availability of agricultural and environmental information systems while assessing the weaknesses, strengths, threats and opportunities they present.
4. Rescue and disseminate policies that promote technological innovation, especially by efforts channeled inter-institutional and multi (public and private) in management of agricultural and environmental information systems in the Americas.
5. Show the economic impact and statistical developments in management of agricultural and environmental information systems in the Americas that reflect the state of affairs in this sub-sector.
6. Review itema about Intellectual Property and ancestral knowledge linking the need for their recovery, systematization, dissemination and application.

Theme:

“Open Access Innovations in Agricultural and Environmental Information”

Specific Themes:

1. Open Access Information on Agricultural Innovation in the Americas: State of the Art, Research and Analysis
Promote action in the Americas and philosophy of the Movement of Open Access (OA), implemented in major world institutions such as FAO, focusing on efforts to reduce barriers qualitatively general access to information.

2. OA Perspectives on Management and Information Technology
Introduce to the creators, managers and users of information, technological possibilities for transferring information through online publications and best practice standards under analysis and dissemination.

3. Social Networks and Information Systems Professionals Local
Emphasize the impact and incidence of OA movement in the Americas, under Public Policy Information, Local Information Systems, Tele centers and specialized management. Ensuring Intellectual Property range and scientific agricultural knowledge and information resources ancestral public and ethical.

4. Additional Issues
Indirect aspects and topics of information access, that affect outcomes, means and instruments, management, agricultural economics, environment, culture and environment for information literacy and digital inclusion, and so on.