People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, etc. The water footprint is an indicator of water use that looks at both direct and indirect water use of a consumer or producer.

Ushahidi is an open source tool that can be used to gather information from sms, e-mail, twitter. And map it as a timeline and on google maps. This can be used as crowdsourcing in crisis situations like earthquakes, missing people, riots, supresions cases etc.

The Broker aims to contribute to evidence-based policy making and better formulated research questions in the field of poverty reduction and international development. The Broker helps policy makers, practitioners and scientists to make a better use of the results and conclusions of recent and ongoing research and evaluations, in the fields of economics, governance, security and science & technology.

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

Information about how to apply the ancient Hindu knowledge of Vaastu Sastra in your interior and design of your house.

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.
We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization.

EduBook.com is a collaborative article publishing site where a team of writers publish their hand-written articles in order to develop and promote their authorship on the web.

The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 178 countries and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.

Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others.

AEGIS is a research network of European studies centres which aims to create synergies between experts and institutions. With primary emphasis on Social Sciences and Humanities, AEGIS' main goal is to improve understanding about contemporary African societies.

Wageningen Academic Publishers is a publishing company in the field of life sciences. Our main topics are animal and veterinary sciences, food sciences, social sciences, environmental sciences and plant sciences. We publish monographs, textbooks, proceedings as well as popular scientific publications.

Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world” using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid -- toward better national health and wealth. Animated bell curves representing national income distribution squish and flatten. In Rosling’s hands, global trends — life expectancy, child mortality, poverty rates — become clear, intuitive and even playful.

The Royal Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest library in the world. It is generally thought to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC, during the reign of Ptolemy II of Egypt. It was likely created after his father had built what would become the first part of the Library complex, the temple of the Muses — the Musaion (from which the modern English word museum is derived).
The name of the library was probebly Eandrium!