1. An Overview of the National Agricultural Information System (NAIS) of the Sudan Workshop on Building National Information Management and Knowledge Exchange Capacities in Support of Agricultural Research for Development AARINENA in Collaboration with FAO, GFAR and ICARDA Cairo, Egypt 17-20 May 2009 Ahlam Ismail Musa Head, Central Library ARC, AGRIS Resource Centre of the Sudan E-mail: ahlamusa@yahoo.com

8. Recent Steps of Establishment of National Focal Units in the Sudan: The establishment of the Sudan National Agricultural Information Network (SNAIN)

11. Regional and International Networks and Initiatives Sudan established a number of regional and international agricultural information and initiatives specially the following: 1- FAO AGRIS Network 2- AARINENA/RAIS 3- Networks and activities led by the Association of Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) and partners. 4- The Regional Agricultural Information and Learning Systems (RAILS) of the Forum of Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA). 5- The Twinning of Agricultural Information Systems project that have effectively established library consortium between the Sudanese Agricultural Library (the Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC) and University of Khartoum, The Egyptian National Agricultural library (ENAL) and ICARDA. 6- Cooperation with international and regional agricultural information organization and partners such as AOAD, AAAID, ITOCA 7- Implementation of agricultural information initiatives: AGORA, HINARI, OARE and TEEAL.