Dr. Michael Ruggiero will work with the GBIF Secretariat during the next six months to develop partnerships with pollination biologists and data holders around the world. The campaign’s goal is to provide critical taxonomic and other primary content needed for the Pollination Information Management System coordinated by FAO. Early targets of the campaign include providing access to 1 million digitized bee specimen records and an 80% complete global checklist of bee names. Additional emphasis will be placed on developing a long term campaign strategy, building partnerships in the taxonomic community and with the world’s natural history collections, and finding funding opportunities to continue and expand the campaign in 2007 and 2008. Dr. Ruggiero is on detail from the U.S. Geological Survey where he serves as Director of the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). An entomologist by training, he has been actively involved with the Convention on Biological Diversity’s International Pollinator Initiative and other pollinator activities in the U.S. and the Americas. He has had a long association with GBIF as a Governing Board delegate and as Past Chair of the ECAT Science Subcommittee.