Although the global information revolution continues to make ever more vast amounts of information available, not all of the information resources are made known in a common manner.
Users have extreme difficulty just in trying to find relevant materials.
A Global Information Locator would have immediate practical application in international areas such as Agenda 21, global change research, environmental monitoring, coordination of humanitarian assistance, and U.N. administration. The Global Information Infrastructure is emerging at a revolutionary period in the history of information. Technological breakthroughs have expanded radically the possibilities for electronic access. On such networks, many different information sources can be maintained separately yet any user can choose to view them as a whole. A Global Information Locator using GILS as a model is part of the project for Environment and Natural Resources Management adopted in February 1995 at the G-7 Ministerial Conference on the Information Society.