International audience 19 speaking-speaking American countries formed 60%, Brazil 3%, and Spain 37% of the participants of the March 05 e-congress promoted by the Hispanic Association of Internet Documentalists (AHDI, http://www.documentalistas.com). The current development in information technologies targeting life sciences conjugated motivations for collaborative work. The European organizers focused on: gaining access to complementary expertise/results; developing longer term links; sharing costs; establishing or familiarizing with standards; gaining expertise of European markets; monitoring competitors' activities. Awareness of American topics and issues raised by the electronic congress was a ceiling on the Europe's documentalists contribution, and to become fully informed resulted into a collective dynamics of opinion. Three subject themes about public health, biology and social sciences achieved the basic platform for discussion along the five first days. 28 communications, available as compressed files, nourished the public health forum (what resulted in 480 pages of the printed version), 19 communications expressed the biologist's interests' (340 paper pages), the selection, appraisal and retention of social science data occupied 13 communications and 241 pages. Five general debates were organized what included medical equipment and IT, internet and biology, the information and documentation professional in health, teaching and labor market in social science, and humanistics views on internet in biology. A round table was instituted as the switching point between the first and the second part of the event. Hope in the IT market as a social structure was expressed in considering life sciences. The second part of the e-congress was based on three workshops. The e-congressists were invited to contribute to sessions prepared from the European documentation centre (Alicante, Spain), the Isla de la Cartuja (Seville, Spain) internet firm Sadiel, and from the University of Huelva (Spain). EU policies related with life sciences, e-learning and university contents virtualization showed the evidences allocating this comparative Ibero American analysis all its value.