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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 14-16, 2010, Zurich}}\\[1ex] \Large{``World Food System  ---\\A Contribution from Europe''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Is the Internet a Solution to the Taxonomic Impediment in the Developing World?\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Fabian Haas, ICIPE, Environmental Health Division, Duduville Campus Kasarani, 30772 - 00100~Nairobi, Kenya, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{fhaas@icipe.org}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Fabian Haas}}
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The taxonomic impediment is a threat to the characterisation of the world's biodiversity. The impediment is the worldwide shortage of taxonomists who serve the needs of different stakeholders e.g. in society, science, regulatory agencies and agriculture. Taxonomists are needed to identify species, describe species that are new to science, determine their taxonomic relationships, and make predictions about their characteristics, leading to efficient use and protection of biodiversity. The increased in the taxonomic impediment is due to aging of taxonomic workforce couple with a decline in students being trained in taxonomy and insufficient funding commitment to existing taxonomic activities in developing countries. Relevant taxonomic publications are often comparatively old, and published in a great number of smaller scientific papers. They are not available everywhere even in the developed world, let alone in the developing world, with a much less developed library infrastructure. Thus, every museum suffers from backlog of unstudied specimens and undescribed new and invasive species. The Internet has been considered as innovative strategies that can significantly improved the situation. Web"=based initiatives, such as GBIF, EOL, BHL and many others provide important information on distribution, names, original descriptions, as well as images. They serve a wider taxonomic community and also non"=taxonomic users, all over the world. However, how well do they serve the developing world? Our experience at icipe with a taxonomist supported by CIM showed that these initiatives and other taxon specific databases do indeed help in the identification of species, which proved to be the most common request from major stakeholders, then author and year of description follows. However, without a taxonomist engaged in web"=based Information Management, the information available may not be understandable to the non"=taxonomist. However, the Internet sources cannot replace active taxonomic research, but interestingly, Internet use avoids legal issues with a rather increasing number of restrictive import and export regulations. Also it reduces costs by making information available without interlibrary loans, and makes older publications, excluded from loan, accessible at all. However, more species photos would be helpful in identification of species.}

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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Biodiversity informatics, identification, Internet, taxonomy, web
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