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If you are not sure if a new link belongs here, please check '''[[Links|Other Links]]''' for other alternatives.
If you are not sure if a new link belongs here, please check '''[[Links|Other Links]]''' for other alternatives.


*[http://www.unece.org/ United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)] - Environment and Human Settlements, Transport, Statistics, Economic Analysis, Population Analysis, Industrial Restructuring, Energy and Enterprise Development, Trade, Industry and Enterprise Development, Timber, '''Agricultural Standards''', Coordinating Unit for Operational Activities, Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme. 10 pages of different types of [[Apple]]s, need I say more. [[Reference]]-quality stuff. See also [[UNECE]]
*[http://www.un.org United Nations] - Agenda: World peace and prosperity
 
**[http://www.unece.org/ United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)] - Agenda: Environment and Human Settlements, Transport, Statistics, Economic Analysis, Population Analysis, Industrial Restructuring, Energy and Enterprise Development, Trade, Industry and Enterprise Development, Timber, '''Agricultural Standards''', Coordinating Unit for Operational Activities, Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme. 10 pages of different types of [[Apple]]s, need I say more. [[Reference]]-quality stuff. See also [[UNECE]]
* [http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/main.htm UN/LOCODE] by [[UNECE]] UN/LOCODE provides code elements for more than 36.000 names of ports, airports, rail and road terminals, postal exchange offices, border crossing points and other locations used in trade and transport in 234 countries.
**[http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/main.htm UN/LOCODE] by [[UNECE]] UN/LOCODE provides code elements for more than 36.000 names of ports, airports, rail and road terminals, postal exchange offices, border crossing points and other locations used in trade and transport in 234 countries.
:+ gateway into all [[ISO 3166-1]] (country codes) and ''some'' [[ISO 3166-2]] (subdivision codes)
**[http://www.unece.org/cefact/ United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business] - Tons and Tons of specifications/advisories. [[Reference]]-quality stuff. '''A must see!!'''
 
*[http://www.unece.org/cefact/ United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business] - Tons and Tons of specifications/advisories. [[Refenrence]]-quality stuff. '''A must see!!'''


* [http://www.iso.org International Organization for Standardization] - They have a bad practice of charging lots of money for any [[reference]]-quality data. - See [[ISO]] for more info on ISO and Consumerium
* [http://www.iso.org International Organization for Standardization] - They have a bad practice of charging lots of money for any [[reference]]-quality data. - See [[ISO]] for more info on ISO and Consumerium
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==International NGOs==
==International NGOs==
* http://www.greenpece.org
* [http://www.hrw.org/ Human Rights Watch] - Agenda: Human Rights
 
* [http://amnesty.org Amnesty International] - Agenda: Human rights
* http://act.greenpeace.org - Greenpeace cyber-activist community weblog, has hundreds of thousands of users, searches on almost any topic will yield something (Google searches will only show official documents).  Active discussion of features for activist sites, how to integrate email chat and web, whether to use wikis or annotation, etc..  Active discussion of many different projects, e.g. [http://act.greenpeace.org/996755792/1007012854/1007026932/1007232560/1007335070/1007763497/1007763704/1007766148/1007777103/1007853930/1007859532/1008468120/1008930052/1008933882/1010349645/1010351347/1015651781/1015703516/1015709328/index_html a DNS reserving the names of all ecoregions].  ([[warning]]: contains violent minds, who clearly haven't heard of [[w:RDF]])
* [http://www.transparency.org/] - Agenda: Fighting corruption
 
* [http://www.greenpece.org Greenpeace] - Agenda: Environmentalism
* http://amnesty.org - Amnesty International site, almost as good, but less focused on email campaigns
** http://act.greenpeace.org - Greenpeace cyber-activist community weblog, has hundreds of thousands of users, searches on almost any topic will yield something (Google searches will only show official documents).  Active discussion of features for activist sites, how to integrate email chat and web, whether to use wikis or annotation, etc.  Active discussion of many different projects.


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==National NGOs by country==
==National NGOs by country==


[[Africa]]<br>
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[[Asia]]<br>
===[[Asia]]===


[[Australia]]<br>
===[[Australia]]===


[[Europe]]<br>
===[[Europe]]===


[[North America]]<br>
===[[North America]]===


[[South America]]<br>
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