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Miscellaneous Research Resources

• Export.gov – Research by Country

• Tech Sector Trends

• U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook^®

• The World Bank Group 2002 Knowledge Assessment

• This page contains links to telecommunication statistics compiled by national telecommunication ministries, regulatory agencies and industry associations as well as international organizations and consultancies.

International Telecommunications Union: By Country:

• 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

• Main telephone lines, subscribers per 100 people (pdf format) 2002
  http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/main02.pdf

• Mobile cellular, subscribers per 100 people (pdf format) 2002
  http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/cellular02.pdf

• Internet indicators: Hosts, Users and Number of PCs (pdf format) 2002
  http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/Internet02.pdf

• Key Global Telecom Indicators for the World Telecommunication Service Sector
  http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/KeyTelecom99.html

• Telecommunication Indicators Handbook
  http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/world/material/handbook.html

• World Telecommunication Indicators Database (7th Edition) Last update October 9, 2003
  http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/world/world.html

• WORLD TRADE REPORT 2003, New WTO report focuses on questions of development
  http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres03_e/pr348_e.htm

• International trade statistics 2003
  http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its2003_e/its03_toc_e.htm

• Data Sources:
  http://www1.worldbank.org/gdln/Programs/kam2002/data_sources.htm

• Global Economic Prospects 2004 - Realizing the Development Promise of the Doha Agenda
  http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/gep2004/index.htm

• Human Development Indicators 2003
  http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/indicator/index.html

• Intellectual Property - A Power Tool for Economic Growth
  http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/dgo/wipo_pub_888/index_wipo_pub_888.html

• The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site
  http://ipdl.wipo.int/

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Global Competitiveness Report 2003-2004
  http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/
  Global+Competitiveness+Programme/Global+Competitiveness+
  Report/Global+Competitiveness+Report+2003-2004

• Long-term Prospects: Tourism 2020 Vision
  http://www.world-tourism.org/market_research/facts/menu.html

World Trends

• 2003 Index of Economic Freedom
  http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/

UNESCO Libraries Portals

• Blind:
  http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/Libraries/Other/Blind/

• Technology
  http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/Libraries/Other/Technology/index.shtml

• Communication and Information
  http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/Libraries/

• Access for all (541 links)
  http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_observatory/Access_-_Applications/Access_for_all/

• Translation: Getting it Right
  http://www.fit-ift.org/download/getright-en.pdf

• http://www.fit-ift.org/english/partners.html

• 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/

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• UNESCO Free Software Portal
  http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/Software/

• Global Competitiveness Report 2003-2004
  http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/
  Content/Global+Competitiveness+Programme/
  Global+Competitiveness+Report/Global+Competitiveness+Report+2003-2004

• 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

• 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

• ICT Data by Country
  http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html

• Publications
  http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/category_3932

• Renewables Information
  http://www.iea.org/stats/files/renew2003.pdf

• Areas at a Glance
  http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/ooh20002001/152.htm

• IPO Monitor
  http://www.ipomonitor.com/

• Technology Watch Resources
  http://www.socap.org/Knowledge/techwatch.html

• U.S. Trade Quick-Reference Tables: August 2003 Exports
  http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/Trade-Detail/Latest-Month/Exports/index.html

• National Trade Data, State Exports Data
  http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/

• Infonation (New)
  http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/info.asp

• Infonation (Old)
  http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm

• SOURCES OF GLOBAL DATA
  http://www.emory.edu/SOC/globalization/data.html

• http://wvs.isr.umich.edu/

• Data Query
  http://devdata.worldbank.org/data-query/

• 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

• http://www.wow-com.com/images/survey/2003_midyear/752x571/SEMI-A1.gif

• Access to ... Chinese Characters. All the 6500 Chinese Characters
  http://www.lechinois.com/character/charactergb2312.html

• http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download.shtml

• ROI of Usability: A Collection of Links
  http://www.rashmisinha.com/useroi.html

• U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, International Programs Center IDB Summary Demographic Data
  http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsum.html

• IDB Data Access Options
  http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbacc.html

• IDB Data Access--Display Mode
  http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html

• IDB Data Access--Spreadsheet
  http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsprd.html

• IDB Data Access-User Configurable
  http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbconf.html

• IDB Population Pyramids
  http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html

• World Development Indicators Online
  http://publications.worldbank.org/WDI/

• Global Development Finance Online
  http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=1023868

• GPW Gridded Population of the World
  http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/gpw/index.html?main.html&2

• 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

• Population Density, 1995 UN adjusted data {Robinson Projection}
  http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/gpw/index.html?main.html&2

• Global Ambient Population, 2002
  http://www.ornl.gov/sci/gist/landscan/index.html

• Global Ambient Population, 2000
  http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/gpw/landscan/

• 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

• Good Popuation Density Map
  http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~small/PopMap.html

• Spatial Localization Functions
  http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~small/SLFs.html

• Densest 5%
  http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~small/Pop/LorenzV2.html

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Articles and Papers

• Pay IT Forward: Doing the Public's Business with Digital Technologies while Reducing Pressure on the General Fund
  From the Center for Digital Government's Signature Series
  October 2003   NEW!
  PDF – 465K

• Citizen 2010: Leading for Results, Governing Through Technology
  A government transition briefing from the Center for Digital Government and The Council of State Governments (CSG)
  January 2003
  PDF – 697K

• eGovernment - A Strategic Planning Guide for Local Officials
  A local eGovernment resource
  PDF – 188K

• USAID Regions and Countries
  http://www.usaid.gov/locations/

• Maps and Country Information US State Department
  http://future.state.gov/future/where/maps_country_info.html

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