

Globalization and technology present challenges and opportunities for both new and existing channels of scientific networking. Scientific research activities can be considered a foundation of cooperative work in a worldwide context. In this regard, joint research projects and research networks are enabling structures for scientific collaboration that is critical for developed and developing countries. The idea of scientific networking is beneficial for both the individual and the community, for example, when the expertise, the skills, and the vision of different members of the group can be shared by the community in a particular country or even by other countries particularly between developed and developing countries. Information can be turned into knowledge and, therefore, information sharing can lead to knowledge sharing. But knowledge sharing—which is the core of scientific collaboration—is a process that embeds the notion of the willingness to share. Cooperation can be defined as the work in progress, bringing the specialties of different participants that complement each other to the network. With the advent of Internet, the networking function is very easily accomplished. What is then important is that each scientist tries to establish a cooperative database that is globally accessible or at least tries to provide his/her scientific contribution to pre-established databases.