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Basic indicators: Population, GDP, total telephone
subscribers and total telephone subscribers per 100 people (pdf format) 2002
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/basic02.pdf
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Main telephone lines, subscribers per 100 people (pdf
format) 2002
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/main02.pdf
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Mobile cellular, subscribers per 100 people (pdf
format) 2002
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/cellular02.pdf
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Internet indicators: Hosts, Users and Number of PCs
(pdf format) 2002
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/Internet02.pdf
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Key Global Telecom Indicators for the World
Telecommunication Service Sector
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/KeyTelecom99.html
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Telecommunication Indicators Handbook
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/world/material/handbook.html
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World Telecommunication Indicators Database (7th
Edition) Last update October 9, 2003
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/world/world.html
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WORLD TRADE REPORT 2003,
New WTO
report focuses on questions of development
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres03_e/pr348_e.htm
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International trade statistics
2003
http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its2003_e/its03_toc_e.htm
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Data Sources:
http://www1.worldbank.org/gdln/Programs/kam2002/data_sources.htm
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Global Economic Prospects 2004 - Realizing the
Development Promise of the Doha Agenda
http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/gep2004/index.htm
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Human Development Indicators
2003
http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/indicator/index.html
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Intellectual Property - A Power Tool for Economic
Growth
http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/dgo/wipo_pub_888/index_wipo_pub_888.html
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The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site
http://ipdl.wipo.int/
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PCT Electronic Gazette [Guest Access]
This database
contains the first page data (bibliographic data, abstract and drawing) of PCT
applications published since January 1997. The first page data of applications
published each week in Section I of the Gazette are added to the database. The
full-text (image format) of PCT pamphlets is accessible via the 'View Images'
button on the displayed front page of hit list cases. (Full-text data is
available fourteen days after publication.)
http://guest:guest@ipdl.wipo.int/en/search/pct/search2.html
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PCT Full Text Database Prototype [Guest Access]
This
prototype of the PCT Gazette is available for test purposes only. Among the
changes incorporated in the prototype are changes to the layout and format of
the data, access to data concerning republished PCT applications (including
images of republished pages), and searchable access to the full text of
description and claims. The prototype will be available in parallel with the
current PCT Gazette until the completion of the necessary testing and
consultation, after which it is planned that the prototype, as modified as a
result of the testing and consultation, will supercede the current PCT
Gazette.
Http://guest:guest@ipdl.wipo.int/en/search/full/search2.html
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Madrid Express Database [Guest Access]
The Madrid
Express database includes all international registrations that are currently
in force or have expired within the past six months. It reflects the situation
of the International Register of Marks as at 06/11/2003 . It also includes
data relating to international applications and subsequent designations that
have been received by the International Bureau but have not yet been recorded
in the international register of marks. With regard to these, users are warned
that the International Bureau has not yet made a decision on the international
applications or subsequent designations concerned. While every effort is made
to ensure that this information accurately reflects the data recorded in the
International Register, the only official publication remains the Gazette and
the only official statements by the International Bureau regarding the
contents of the International Register for a given international registration
remain the certified extracts from the Register established on request by the
International Bureau.
Http://guest:guest@ipdl.wipo.int/en/search/rom/search-bool.html
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Hague Express [Guest Access]
The Hague Express
Database includes bibliographical data and, as far as international deposits
governed exclusively or partly by the 1960 Act of the Hague Agreement are
concerned, reproductions of industrial designs relating to international
deposits that have been recorded in the International Register and published
in the International Designs Bulletin as of issue No. 1/1999.
Http://guest:guest@ipdl.wipo.int/en/search/hag/search-bool.html
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Health Heritage Test Database [Guest Access]
This
compilation provides a test database of public domain traditional knowledge,
which is made available on the WIPO website at the request of the Indian
Government. The test database is based on the "Health Heritage CD-ROM", which
was compiled by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of
India. It contains documentation data of codified traditional knowledge, all
of which is already in the public domain. It may be used as a trial product to
test the perceived potential of traditional knowledge databases for improving
the availability of disclosed traditional knowledge as searchable prior art.
All the documentation data in the database were collected and compiled by the
Indian CSIR and were provided to WIPO with a request to make the data
available online.
Http://guest:guest@ipdl.wipo.int/en/search/tkdl/search-bool.html
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JOPAL [Guest Access]
This database contains
bibliographic details of articles published in leading scientific and
technical periodicals since 1981. Each month, the latest set of data as
provided by the offices is added to the database.
http://guest:guest@ipdl.wipo.int/en/search/jop/search2.html
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Global Competitiveness Report 2003-2004
http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/
Global+Competitiveness+Programme/Global+Competitiveness+
Report/Global+Competitiveness+Report+2003-2004
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Long-term Prospects: Tourism 2020 Vision
http://www.world-tourism.org/market_research/facts/menu.html
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Blind:
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/Libraries/Other/Blind/
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Technology
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/Libraries/Other/Technology/index.shtml
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Communication and Information
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/Libraries/
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Access for all (541 links)
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_observatory/Access_-_Applications/Access_for_all/
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Translation: Getting it Right
http://www.fit-ift.org/download/getright-en.pdf
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http://www.fit-ift.org/english/partners.html
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European Society for Translation Studies, a network for
stimulating and coordinating research in translation and interpreting, a forum
for the exchange and dissemination of new ideas and insights in Translation
Studies, a center for information and know-how on issues of quality and
training in translation and interpreting, and a platform for the promotion of
Translation Studies as an academic discipline
http://est.utu.fi/
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John Benjamins Publishing, for more information about
Babel, the journal of translation published by the FIT, and numerous other
academic journals.
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=Babel
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The INDEX TRANSLATIONUM database contains cumulative
bibliographical information on books translated and published since 1979 and
totalizing some 1,300,000 notices in all disciplines: literature, social and
human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and so forth.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php@URL_
ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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UNESCO: centre for information, guidance and encounter
for all those (translators, publishers, researchers, archivists, teachers) who
work on the discovery and promotion of still unknown literatures.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php@URL_
ID=1523&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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List of funding national or regional organisms for
literary translation.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php@URL_
ID=1539&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=-473.html
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UNESCO Free Software Portal
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/Software/
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Global Competitiveness Report 2003-2004
http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/
Content/Global+Competitiveness+Programme/
Global+Competitiveness+Report/Global+Competitiveness+Report+2003-2004
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Global Information Technology Report 2002-2003 -
Readiness for the Networked World
http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/
Content/Global+Competitiveness+Programme/
Global+Information+Technology+Report/Global+
Information+Technology+Report+2002-2003+-+Readiness+for+the+Networked+World
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Global Competitiveness Report 2002-2003 and Global
Information Technology Report 2002-2003 by country.
http://www.weforum.org/site/knowledgenavigator.nsf/Content/KB+Country+Profiles
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ICT Data by Country
http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html
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Publications
http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/category_3932
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Renewables Information
http://www.iea.org/stats/files/renew2003.pdf
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Areas at a Glance
http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/ooh20002001/152.htm
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IPO Monitor
http://www.ipomonitor.com/
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Technology Watch Resources
http://www.socap.org/Knowledge/techwatch.html
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U.S. Trade Quick-Reference Tables: August 2003 Exports
http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/Trade-Detail/Latest-Month/Exports/index.html
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National Trade Data, State
Exports Data
http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/
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Infonation (New)
http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/info.asp
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Infonation (Old)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
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SOURCES OF GLOBAL DATA
http://www.emory.edu/SOC/globalization/data.html
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http://wvs.isr.umich.edu/
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Data Query
http://devdata.worldbank.org/data-query/
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Industry Outlook 2003 The ways in which sectors behave
after recessions have changed, leading to a new cycle of head-scratching
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_02/b3815701.htm
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http://www.wow-com.com/images/survey/2003_midyear/752x571/SEMI-A1.gif
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Access to ... Chinese Characters. All the 6500 Chinese
Characters
http://www.lechinois.com/character/charactergb2312.html
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http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download.shtml
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ROI of Usability: A Collection of Links
http://www.rashmisinha.com/useroi.html
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U.S. Census Bureau, Population
Division, International Programs Center IDB Summary Demographic Data
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsum.html
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IDB Data Access Options
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbacc.html
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IDB Data Access--Display
Mode
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html
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IDB Data
Access--Spreadsheet
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsprd.html
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IDB Data Access-User Configurable
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbconf.html
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IDB Population Pyramids
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html
World Development Indicators Online
http://publications.worldbank.org/WDI/
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Global Development Finance Online
http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=1023868
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GPW Gridded Population of the World
http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/gpw/index.html?main.html&2
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Country-level Summary Information of GPW Input data
in Excel ftp://ftp.ciesin.org/pub/gpw/ancillary/GPW2.xls
or CSV ftp://ftp.ciesin.org/pub/gpw/ancillary/GPW2.csv
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Population Density, 1995 UN adjusted data {Robinson
Projection}
http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/gpw/index.html?main.html&2
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Global Ambient Population, 2002
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/gist/landscan/index.html
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Global Ambient Population, 2000
http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/gpw/landscan/
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Continental Population Density Maps, 1995:
(click on
thumbnail image for full size maps)
http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/gpw/index.html?main.html&2
Workshop on Gridding Population Data, Columbia University, 2-3 May 2000
http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/gpw/index.html?main.html&2
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Good Popuation Density Map
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~small/PopMap.html
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Spatial Localization Functions
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~small/SLFs.html
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Densest 5%
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~small/Pop/LorenzV2.html
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Foreign Direct
Investment in Emerging Market Countries—Report of the Working Group of the
Capital Markets Consultative Group (CMCG) September 18, 2003
http://www.imf.org/external/np/cmcg/2003/eng/091803.pdf
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Global E-Government,
2002
By Darrell M. West, Center for Public Policy, Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island 02912-1977
http://www.insidepolitics.org/egovt02int.html
Executive
Summary: This report presents the second annual update on global
e-government, i.e., the delivery of public sector information and online
services through the Internet. Many governmental units across the world have
embraced the digital revolution and placed a wide range of materials on the
web from publications to databases. Since global e-government still is in its
infancy, it is a perfect time to measure the extent of web service delivery,
compare differences that exist across nations, and see how the 2002 results
compare to 2001.
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State and Federal
E-Government, 2002
By Darrell M. West, Center for Public Policy, Brown
University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-1977
http://www.insidepolitics.org/Egovt02us.html
Executive
Summary: This report presents the third annual update on the features that
are available online at American state and federal government websites. We
examine the differences that exist across the 50 states and between the state
and federal governments as well as compare the Summer, 2002 results to 2000
and 2001. Using a detailed analysis of 1,265 state and federal government
websites, we measure what kinds of features are available on-line, what
variations exist across the country as well as between state and national
government sites, and how e-government sites respond to citizen requests for
information.
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Urban E-Government,
2002
By Darrell M. West, Center for Public Policy, Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island 02912-1977
http://www.insidepolitics.org/egovt02city.html
Executive
Summary: This report presents the second annual update on urban
e-government in the United States. E-government refers to the delivery of
information and services online through the Internet. Many city governmental
units have placed a wide range of materials on the web from publications to
databases. Using a detailed analysis of 1,567 city government websites in the
70 largest metropolitan areas, we measure the information and services that
are online, chart the variations that exist across cities, and discuss how
urban e-government can be improved.
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Business Case Basics and
Beyond a Primer on State Government, 2003
[Not for public consumption]
By Andris Ozols, Senior Analyst,
Department of Information Technology, State of Michigan
Executive
Summary: This primer provides tools, concepts and a framework for
addressing a number of critical challenges facing state Governors, CIOs and
enterprise information technology (IT) organizations. These include
leadership transitions in the offices of many Governors and in state
legislatures, increasing budget deficits, the departure and replacement of
state CIOs and a number of other long term concerns. These challenges will
likely impact state government's ability to maintain the momentum of
e-government implementation and meet the policy and service goals of the
Governors in areas such as education, economic and workforce development,
public safety, healthcare and the environment. Most importantly, these
challenges may impact states' ability to deliver services to citizens and
customers. Along with challenges to service delivery comes risk to
a state's core infrastructure and application resource pool, its capability to
redesign business processes, and its ability to make long-term investments
toward efficiency. Certainly, state government's ability to make use of
crucial new technologies is also challenged, even in areas such as
cybersecurity and physical security.
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Making Smart IT Choices:
Understanding Value and Risk in Government IT Investments
By: Sharon S. Dawes, Theresa A. Pardo, Stephanie Simon, Anthony
M. Cresswell, Mark F. LaVigne, David F. Andersen, and Peter A. Bloniarz
http://www.ctg.albany.edu/publications/guides/smartit2/smartit2.pdf
March 2003 [PDF: 302KB]
Executive Summary:
Why evaluate information technology (IT) choices? Because IT innovation is
risky business in every organization. The public policy choices and public
management processes that are part of government make it an especially
difficult environment for IT managers. These layers of complexity present a
daunting challenge to public managers who are responsible for choosing,
funding, and building IT innovations. Government managers need to evaluate IT
choices because they are among the most complex and expensive decisions they
are expected to make.
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Making a Case for Local
E-Government, July 2002
By Meghan E. Cook, Mark F. LaVigne, Christina M.
Pagano, Sharon S. Dawes, and Theresa A. Pardo
http://www.ctg.albany.edu/publications/guides/making_a_case/making_a_case.pdf
[PDF: 1.04MB]
Executive Summary: E-government may be
uncharted territory for many in local government, but technology clearly holds
potential for improving the operations and outreach of local government. Local
and county governments are trying to realize this potential by finding the
best way to implement technology. This report is based on real-life
experiences of local e-government pioneers throughout New York State and
details strategies, funding, barriers, and benefits of their e-government
initiatives. It also provides insight and advice for colleagues who are just
starting out. This resource serves as a communications tool to assist
local and county governments trying to use technology to pursue e-government
by providing case studies of successful initiatives. By using this resource
local government officials can now approach e-government with greater
confidence and understanding.
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Untangle the Web:
Delivering Municipal Services Through the Internet, August 2002
By Mark
LaVigne, Stephanie Simon, Sharon Dawes, Theresa Pardo, and Donna Berlin
http://www.ctg.albany.edu/publications/guides/untangle_the_web/untangle_the_web.pdf
{PDF: 747KB]
Executive Summary: The
technological advances of the last decade have changed the way we live and
work. The World Wide Web is a perfect illustration. The Web offers people and
organizations a whole new way to interact and communicate. This report
provides a framework for helping local governments achieve the benefits of the
Web without being overcome by its complexity.