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The United Nations CyberSchoolBus
http://www.un.org/pubs/cyberschoolbus
The United Nations CyberSchoolBus
24 November 1997
The United Nations CyberSchoolBus launched on Thursday a multilingual database on UN Member States for educational and general use on the World Wide Web.
With just a few clicks on an easy-to-use interface in English, French or Spanish, users of InfoNation can compare data for countries of their choice. Users can select from a total of 36 data series including such basic series as population, GDP and life expectancy as well as homicides, school enrolment and endangered species. InfoNation includes a 'Data Dictionary' in three languages, with definitions for the terms, and comprehensive footnotes.
The statistics and indicators used by InfoNation are official, up-to-date data provided by the United Nations Statistics Division from the World Statistics Pocketbook and the Statistical Yearbook, supplemented with information from other sources on capital cities, languages and illiteracy.
InfoNation can be accessed from the Resource Source area of the UN CyberSchoolBus or directly from the following URLs:
InfoNation
English
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
French
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/f_infonation.htm
Spanish
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/s_infonation.htm
UN CyberSchoolBus
English http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus
French http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/french
Spanish http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/spanish