untangling_the_web

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The Northwestern University Library has a superb collection of documents related to
governments, international organizations, and unrepresented nations and peoples.
The governments' page has links to websites of countries from Afghanistan to
Zambia. Even better, the page is kept up to date. Obviously, every website for every
government is not listed, but the resource focuses on the major sites, such as
president/prime minister, MFA, central bank, parliament, etc.
The international governmental organizations page lists intergovernmental
organizations (IGOs) that have webpages. Most are in English and generally the list
links only to the main page, though there are exceptions. Organizations cover a wide
range of topics, from the African Development Bank to the Chemical Weapons
Convention to the International Criminal Court.
Finally, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) page, which
resides at a separate website, lists both current and former members. UNPO
members comprise nations and peoples inadequately represented at the UN.
Among the UNPO current members are Australian Aboriginals, Assyrians,
Chechens, Iraqi Turkoman, etc. For each group, the site links to a UNPO page
containing information about the people and their homeland, including geographical,
economic, and historical information as well as links to UNPO documents relating to
the nation/people.
Academic Info
http://www.academicinfo.netJ
I am somewhat hesitant to recommend this site only because I can't find out much
about who is running it (Mark Madin and a group of "volunteer subject matter
experts"). However, many reputable sources link to and recommend Academic Info,
including the superb University of California, Berkeley, library, which describes it as
a "Rich selection of about 25,000 pages, selected as 'college and research level
Internet resources' aimed at "at the undergraduate level or above." And it does
contain a lot of useful information. The information appears to be fairly high-level and
most of it is collected elsewhere. However, this is a good general starting place and
has the advantage of having been updated frequently. Because of the currency,
quality, and amount of information throughout the website, I would recommend
bookmarking and using the site as a good starting place for research on a number of
topics.
Google Directory Country Index
http://directory .google.comnop/Regional/Coun tries/
Google Directory uses the Open Directory Project listings as a basis but adds to
them and includes more links.
AdmLnet
http://admi.net/world/
AdmLnet is a French website that attempts to be "the cyber-documentation center
delivering general information about government authorities and public services."
Admi.net's scope, therefore, is more limited than some others, but may thereby be
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