|
|
|
Resource Links
|
 |
|
| |
Title: Transparency International
Description:
Transparency International, the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world. TI’s mission is to create change towards a world free of corruption.
|
Title: STAR-TIDES
Description: STAR-TIDES is a research project focused on information sharing, low cost logistics and social networks in support of populations in stressed environments, such as post-disaster, post-war, and economic under-development. It encourages reach-back support to those with line responsibilities and those doing work in the field. STAR-TIDES stands for Sustainable Technology Accelerated Research - Transportable Infrastructure for Development and Energy Support
|
Title: RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy
Description:The RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy (CAPP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multidisciplinary research center within RAND. CAPP's mission is to improve policy by providing decision-makers and the public with rigorous, objective, cutting-edge research on critical policy challenges facing Asia and U.S.-Asia relations.
|
Title: PreventionWeb
Description:
In support of the Hyogo Framework for Action, the ISDR Secretariat is developing an information portal on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) called PreventionWeb. The primary purpose is to facilitate the work of professionals involved in disaster risk reduction and promotean understanding of the subject by non-specialists. PreventionWeb aims to provide a common platform for institutions to connect, exchange experiences and share information on DRR. The system will be designed to allow distributed data entry as well as provide options for content syndication to partner sites.
The site will be updated daily, and contain news, DRR initiatives, event calendars, online discussions, contact directories, policy documents, reference documents, training events, jobs, terminology, country profiles, fact sheets, as well as audio and video content.
|
Title: Transparency International
Description:
Transparency International, the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world. TI’s mission is to create change towards a world free of corruption.
|
Title: Hawaii Tsunami Resources
Description:
Asia-Pacific Collaborative Security Consortium Tsunami Related Websites
|
Title: Human Security Gateway
Description: A product from the Human Security Report Project at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. The Human Security Gateway is a research and information database regrouping electronic and bibliographic resources on human security.
|
Title: Human Security Report Project
Description:
The Human Security Report Project's (HSRP) mission is to conduct research on global and regional trends in political violence, their causes and consequences and to make this research accessible to the policy and research communities, the media, educators and the interested public. The HSRP's flagship publication, the Human Security Report, is complemented by the Human Security Gateway (an online database of human security resources), the Afghanistan Monitor (a website highlighting new research and analysis on the conflict in Afghanistan) and three online bulletins, Human Security News, Afghanistan Security News and Human Security Research. The HSRP, which is funded by five governments, runs policy workshops, undertakes independent research, and also commissions research from individual scholars and research institutions around world.
|
Title: Demographic Analysis
Description:A site from human dimension. gov, a cross sector information sharing site dedicated to keeping the human dimension in environmental and resource management decisions.
|
Title: ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMICS: Structured Lists of Commonly-Used Websites
Description:This website points to a collection of webpages related to Economic Security. It saves time while browsing the web and doing research. The site points to commonly-used, recurring information that is often of an official nature.
Based on research of Asia-Pacific economies, it's value-added is that it collects weblinks in a cookie-cutter framework.
Each "Tab" refers to the mode of research being used: reading reports, grabbing data, browsing home pages, wielding tools, etc. A common framework is generally used: rows represent topics, columns indicate the scope (World/ Region/ United States).
It received a Five-Star Rating Five-Star "Essential" Rating by the Asian Studies WWW Monitor.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Map Resources
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Policy Links
|
 |
|
|
|