Gateway to Government Data Around the World

Government data from around the world. Welcome to our single gateway

Data, data, data. There’s loads of it out there and more coming your way as governments open their statistics vaults around the world.
First the US with data.gov, then Australia and New Zealand followed suit. Now it’s the UK’s turn with data.gov.uk.

And that’s in addition to the cities and US states that have made government data available too: London launched very recently – you can get the full set of links for government data sites around the world here.
Ever since the government appointed Sir Tim Berners-Lee as its open data Czar (working with Prof Nigel Shadbolt from Southampton University) it was obvious the issue was going to be big for the government, but what does it mean for you?
You now have tens of sites around the world providing you access, but how do you find them?
Well, this is now the place. To coincide with the launch of data.gov.uk, we have created the ultimate gateway to world government data.
At World Government Data you can:

• Search government data sites from the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and London (this comes under United Kingdom, if you want to browse) in one place and download the data (more sites to come)
• Help us find the best dataset by ranking them
• Collect similar datasets together from around the world
• Browse all datasets by each country

+ Direct to world government data
Source: guardian.co.uk

The Best Doctor-Recommended Health Websites

The best way to scare yourself silly: Type your symptoms into a search engine and hit Enter. These doctor-approved sites will inform you, not worry you.

The Best Doctor-Recommended Health Websites

Source: Real Simple

Note: One of the sites on the list, MedlinePlus, just released a mobile version of the service. I wrote an overview about it here. You can also go direct to the mobile version at: http://m.medlineplus.gov/.

MedlinePlus Goes Mobile

For many years, MedlnePlus from the National Library of Medicine (think of it as a consumer version of Medline/PubMed) has been our primary site for health information. It’s well organized, they have a published criteria of what is and is not listed, and new/updated material is always being added. If it’s not your primary health info site it definitely should be on your list of reliable health info resources.
Now, MedlinePlus has gone mobile. Mobile MedlinePlus can be accessed at: http://m.medlineplus.gov/



From this point users can
+ Keyword search and get back results from the MedlinePlus database.
+ Browse or Search “Health Topic” Pages
+ Browse or Search Drug Info
+ Browse and Read Health-Related News Headlines
While it doesn’t have all the bells, whistles, and resources of the main web site, Mobile Medline Plus is a resource that you’ll be happy to have nearby, all the times.
Source: NLM

State of the World’s Indigenous People

Source: United Nations

Indigenous peoples contribute extensibly to humanity’s cultural diversity, enriching it withmore than two thirds of its languages and an extrordinary amount of its traditional knowledge.

There are over 370 million indigenous people in some 90 countries, living in all regions of the world. The situation of indigenous peoples in many parts of the world is critical today.

Poverty rates are significantly higher among indigenous peoples compared to other groups. While they constitute 5 per cent of the world’s population, they are 15 per cent of the world’s poor. Most indicators of well-being show that indigenous peoples suffer disproportinately compared to non-indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples face systemic discrimination and exclusion from political and economic power; they continue to be over-represented among the poorest, the illiterate, the destitute; they are displaced by wars and environmental disasters; indigenous peoples are dispossessed of their ancestral lands and deprived of their resources for survival, both physical and cultural; they are even robbed of their very right to life.

In more modern versions of market exploitation, indigenous peoples see their traditional knowledge and cultural expressions marketed and patented without their consent or participation.

Of the some 7,000 languages today, it is estimated that more than 4,000 are spoken by indigenous peoples. Language specialists predict that up to 90 per cent of the world’s languages are likely to become extinct or threatened with extinction by the end of the century.

Full Report (PDF; 2.8 MB)