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Global Statistics on Women

The New Security Beat points to the WomanStats Project, a free online resource for statistics on women’s security worldwide: The variables fall under nine themes, including physical security, which covers health and violence; economic security; and maternal security, which includes topics such as maternal and infant health care and availability of family planning. The interface [...]

ESRI ArcGIS Online Service

ArcGIS Online (currently Beta) provides a series of 2D maps and 3D globes that can be accessed with ArcGIS applications – for example, with ArcGIS Explorer, ArcMap, ArcGlobe, ArcReader, or Web mapping applications that you create with ArcGIS Server.

Scholarly Resources from and about Africa

From their homepage: Aluka is a not-for-profit international collaboration of educational and cultural institutions. Our mission is to build a high-quality scholarly resource of materials from and about Africa. We seek to attract contributed collections about Africa from institutions and individuals around the world.