1. Key Areas for Development Team Members: Miguel O. Arias Estrada, INAOE Ismael Esquivel, Universidad Cristóbal Colón Clara López Guzmán, DGSCA-UNAM Yolanda Martínez Treviño, ITESM Campus Monterrey Fernanda Meraz, UNAM Alvaro Quijano, Colegio de Mexico David Sol, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla Juan Eduardo Vargas, University of South Carolina

2. Key Areas for Development Education (develop academic resources for students and teachers at all levels) Health (electronic patient records, telemedicine, remote access to on-line medical DLs from rural areas) Environment (develop Geograhical Info Systems, GIS, for environment protection, remediation, urbanization, farming, assessment of resources)

3. Key Areas for Development Develop emergency action repositories to disseminate information during earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. Develop DLs to provide businesses with info on market & economic trends, intra-organizational tools, etc. Develop DLs in support of small and emerging businesses Develop DLs to provide public access to law libraries and legal procedures

4. Promotion of DL R&D Definition of open source standards: Protocols, technologies, tools, procedures, formats, to promote library interoperability Organize workshops, conferences, seminars, involving academic institutions, industry, service sector, and government. Design a world-class National DL website Promote the concept of DL as a didactic tool, as calculators are to engineering

5. Promotion of DL R&D Have pilot demo projects with measurable impact of DLs, e.g., measure social outcomes, such as improvement of health or education caused by DLs Disseminate DL activities at the highest level, showcasing examples selected from competitions Encourage R&D on metrics to compare tools, technologies, etc. Have on-line info on national and international research funding opportunities (á la FEDIX)

6. Human Resources Development Virtual courses focusing on tools, how to create and use DLs Organize workshops, conferences, seminars, targeting students. Promote undergraduate and graduate DLs programs as first as minor tracks within already established curricula (Computer Science, Lib. Sciences, etc) then as programs of their own

7. Forum Suggestions (from Ed Fox) Translate banks (e.g. Lesk) into Spanish Have DL courses at universities, on-line, tutorials Have Spanish translation of Dlib Magazine Highly visible heritage resources made usable for K-12 students

8. Other Ideas (from Juan Eduardo Vargas) Seek interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers in potentially related areas, such as: Data mining Language translation focused on from- and to- Spanish Speech recognition focused on the Spanish language Articulate strategies for sustained development and growth of DL research Seek support at the highest levels of government and private sector: Use the analogy of cellular phones, which bypassed the cost of phone lines infrastructure in developing countries, to exemplify how DLs can also bypass investment while providing public access to information.