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There is an ongoing large debate among researchers and keepers of official and large collections in Brazil on constrain to make known information on biodiversity. The Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT), General Biodiversity Coordination, has co-signed the ‘Communiqué by participants’ of the First Coordination Meeting on a Global Species Information System (GSIS), Brussels, 19/20 April 2007, and has agreed that: basic species information should be freely and openly available to all to the greatest extent possible; develop and use the necessary standards and protocols to ensure interoperability of species-level information to reduce potential duplication of work and facilitate practical implementation; and, will enter into world-wide cooperation within the concept of a Global Species Information System (GSIS).