[Nhcoll-l] White House Memo on Scientific Collections

[Dirk Neumann]

Hi all,

maybe I read this wrong, but in the light of the forthcoming 
ratification of the Nagoya Protocol and Access benefit sharing (which 
the US is not going to ratify), /"making collections more accessible to 
[...] researchers, including non-Federal scientists, to maximize public 
benefit"/, establishment of a clearing house and cooperation with the 
Smithsonian (that established already voluntary ABS-guidelines) directs 
between the lines towards "making collections available for applied 
research and product development".

While national governments of some industrialised countries aim to push 
collections towards commercialisation, Natural History Collections have 
been identified as potential loophole in the ABS system and some NGOs 
accused collections for biopiracy if cooperating too close with 
industry. Non-commercial benefits and capacity building are widely 
ignored among policy makers, and shortcoming for global biodiversity 
research may be assumed (see Buck and Hamilton 2011). Vogel (2013) 
summarises some of the issues that may be anticipated for collections 
rather cynical but clear.

With ratification of the Nagoya Protocol later this year (the EU & 
Member States will ratify in few weeks completing the quorum that 
enforces the NP), access, accession, transfer and sharing of samples 
will become more difficult, and I doubt that this agrees with the 
original intention of the CBD to conserve global biodiversity and to 
promote biodiversity research ...

Dirk





Am 26.03.2014 21:43, schrieb Bentley, Andrew Charles:
>
> Hi all
>
> The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy recently issued 
> a new government-wide policy on the management of scientific 
> collections 
> <http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_memo_scientific_collections_march_2014.pdf>, 
> accompanied by a White House blog <http://wh.gov/lVJf8> and a White 
> House Tweet 
> <https://twitter.com/whitehouseostp/status/446654289864187905>.
>
> Some very interesting reading...
>
> Andy
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