Links
- General Information
- Country Information: General
- Country Information by Country
- International organizations
- Development Banks
- Universities
- How To Do Business in a Country, Including Culture and Language
- Statistics
- Customs, Customs Duties, and Shipping
- Online Databases
- Miscellaneous sources, (currencies, payments, risks, Trade shows)
- Trading Blocs, International Organisations, and Bilateral Agreements
- Future economy
- Future environment
- Future technology
- Suggest a link
General Information
Countries and Currencies http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Type in Africa and it will list the countries and links to each of them. Type in “currency future US dollar Euro” and it will give you today’s rate and a future forecast
Country Information: General
Global Edge – International business portal providing country guides, links to global information resources and a discussion forum.
http://globaledge.msu.edu/resourceDesk/
Global Finance - Good statistics including general information.
http://www.gfmag.com/tools/global-database/economic-data.html?utm_source=gfmag&utm_medium=email&utm_content=link15&utm_campaign=globaldatabase
http://www.gfmag.com/tools/global-database/ne-data.html?utm_source=gfmag&utm_medium=email&utm_content=link16&utm_campaign=globaldatabase.
Wikipedia geography portal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Geography
List information on many countries. http://www.worldinfozone.com/
Covers Russia and Eastern Europe. http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb.
Library of Congress. Have different studies of countries.
Arranged by country, common categories include Business, Commerce & Economy; Government, politics & law.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Country Briefings, free online 60 countries – News, country profiles, forecasts, statistics etc.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html. http://www.economist.com/countries
Country Profile, Country Reports (Top Products). You have to purchase these reports.
http://store.eiu.com
CIA World Factbook
CIA information about countries. If the link does not work, start with the main page and look for World Fact Book. World facts and figures .
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/index.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
World Fact and Figures. Has plenty of information, however many of the statistics are taken from other sources, so the data could be out of date.
http://www.worldfactsandfigures.com
US Commercial Service. Contains information on a numerous countries .
http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/rpts/ccg/
US government site with country information.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/subject/index.htm
Also see:
http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/
Country Commercial Guides
IMD business School, evaluations of different countries’ competitiveness http://www.imd.org/wcc/news-wcy-ranking/
US department of commerce, information on countries and general information on exporting.
http://www.ita.doc.gov/
Country Information by Country
International Business Information on the Web – Online Directory.
Information Today. Links to the web sites described in the book titled: “International Business Information on the Web”.
http://www.infotoday.com/ibidirectory.htm
The World Bank, links for different countries and trade.
http://data.worldbank.org
Aneki.com Country Information, Regional and World Rankings. Facts, statistics, and rankings for over 190 countries. Current listings are divided into four categories -- economic, social, technological, and environmental -- and are retrieved from sources such as the CIA World Factbook and Forbes.com.
http://www.aneki.com/index.html
Maps and geographic information.
http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blrasia.htm
Australian website, has information on individual countries and industries http://www.austrade.gov.au/Country/default.aspx
Europe, EU, European Union
General sites
General Information about EU. http://europa.eu.int/
Information EU as to trade. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/index_en.htm
Information on the expansion of EU. http://europa.eu/pol/enlarg/index_en.htm
By law, in the EU, governments including local municipalities have to hold open tenders and award the contract to the company with the best bid, despite which country they reside in within the EU.
http://ted.europa.eu/
For trade barriers, http://madb.europa.eu/madb/barriers_crossTables.htm
Europages Information on companies. Search engine in 26 languages.
http://www.europages.com/
US based has a large number of links and information
http://www.eurunion.org/
Statistics http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
Information by Country
Belgium. Belgium Government
http://www.belgium.be/en/
Czech Republic. Main web site: http://www.czech.cz
Denmark. Main Government web site: http://www.um.dk/en
Germany. German Government Website:
http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN/Startseite_node.html
Greece. Website of Federal Government: http://www.mfa.gr/en/
Hungary. Hungarian Investment and Trade Agency
http://hipa.hu/en/Default.aspx
Iceland. Iceland export Directory: http://www.icelandexport.is/english/
Ireland. Enterprise Ireland http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/english.asp
Netherland. Netherland International Home Page http://www.government.nl/
Sweden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden
http://www.sweden.se/
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2880.htm
http://www.sweden.gov.se/
http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/
http://www.worldinfozone.com/facts.php?country=Sweden
You can also find information on the pages:
www.riksdagen.se
http://www.tillvaxtverket.se/english
www.riksbank.se
http://www.government.se/
Import license Sweden. You can see in taric if license required.
http://www.kommers.se.
Trade statistics Sweden see. http://www.kommers.se/In-English/
Quota. To see how much is available forSweden go to:
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/index_en.htm
Swedish customs, quota etc.
http://www.tullverket.se
Customer association Svensk Handel. Has an import office .
http://www.svenskhandel.se/
Link to trade information
http://www.business-sweden.se/en/
Updated info on trade statistics you can obtain on:
http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/en/ssd/ or Look for trade statistics at:
http://www.intrastat.scb.se/defaulteng.asp
Business Sweden
http://www.business-sweden.se/en/
Bizbook. List Swedish Industry executives
http://www.bizbook.se
North America
Canada
Department of foreign affairs, start for a lot of information onCanada.
http://www.strategis.ic.gc.ca
Canadian Government website.
http://www.canada.gc.ca/main_e.html
Canadian business information.
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/
Doing business with Canada.
http://www.international.gc.ca/investors-investisseurs/index.aspx?lang=eng
Canadian Statistics
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/main.html
Mexico
United States Mexico Chamber of Commerce
http://www.usmcoc.org
Mexican Trade.
http://www.mextrade.com
USA
US Census bureau statistics on population and many other things.
http://www.census.gov/
Latin America
Latin American NetworkInformationCenter (LANIC)
http://lanic.utexas.edu
Internet Resources for Latin America. Links to internet guides, directories, databases.
http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia
Chile. Source for exporters.
http://www.prochile.cl
Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/
http://www.africaguide.com/afmap.htm
http://www.worldbank.org/en/region/afr
http://www.hmnet.com/africa/1africa.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa
Asia
Asia General
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia
Gives information on each country.
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/asia.htm
China
Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
Information on products and producers.
http://english.china.com/
India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
http://www.tourindia.com/htm/homepage.htm
http://india.gov.in/
http://goidirectory.nic.in/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/intoc.html
http://www.india.org/
http://www.geographia.com/india/
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3454.htm
http://www.india-today.com/
http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/india
http://meaindia.nic.in/
Japan
Malaysia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia
http://www.economist.com/countries/Malaysia/
http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/country/malaysia.html
International organizations
Federation of International Trade Associations
http://fita.org
Directory of 450 international trade associations in the USA, Canada, and Mexico at:
http://fita.org/members.html
Also Web Resources for International Trade at:
http://fita.org/webindex/index.html, a directory of 4000 sites covering finance, logistics, standards, legal, business travel, etc. See “short cuts” list for trade shows, business directories, international market research, country profiles etc.
Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America
http://www.aaccla.org
Association of Balkan Chambers
Includes country profiles and a market research section. http://www.abcinfos.com
Canadian Government. Has links for travelers.
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca
World Bank. Gives specific profile and information as to countries.
www.worldbank.org
WTO. Has trade statistics and country information worldwide. Also try:
http://stat.wto.org/Home/WSDBHome.aspx
UNCTAD International Trade Centre.
http://www.intracen.org
Products & Services: Aggregated trade stats by commodity and country (from UN’s COMTRADE database)
http://www.intracen.org
OECD Frequently Requested Statistics – Includes GDP, standardized unemployment rates, population, purchasing power parities, and short-term economic statistics.
http://www.oecd.org/home/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
by country
http://www.oecd.org/maintopic/0,3348,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html by topic
OAS Foreign Trade Information System. SICE – Trade-Related Links – Good set of links for each country in the Americas, incl. local banks, stats offices, etc. http://www.sice.oas.org/ http://www.sice.oas.org/countries_e.asp
Eldis. Funded by Danish development agency, Danida. Asia, Africa & Latin America. Statistics, agriculture, government, industry. Links to docs, other sites, & citations for printed materials. http://www.eldis.org/country/
OECD. http://www.oecd.org
OPEC. http://www.opec.org
NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement
http://www.sice.oas.org
Development Banks
World Bank Group. Click on Countries & Regions to find background information on 100 developing countries, click on Data & Statistics for country data. Also have statistics on the OECD countries.
http://www.worldbank.org
International Monetary Fund. http://www.imf.org/external/pubind.htm
link to:
http://www.imf.org/external/country/index.htm.
Good information on different publications. Gives information on the countries’ policies too.
Asian Development Bank Economics & Statistics. Economic Resource Center – Statistics, key indicators, reports and review related to Asian development.
http://www.adb.org/
Also Country Economic Review at:
http://www.adb.org/publications
Economic situation & prospects, & social indicators, for Asian countries (PDF)
Central American Bank for Economic Integration
http://www.bcie.org/english/index.php
Links to regional information sources and newspapers.
Inter American Development Bank www.iadb.org
Universities
GlobalEDGE Resource Desk. Center for International Business & Research, Michigan State U. Info such as trade, stats, companies, government sources, and currency is arranged under Regional & Country-Specific Information, for Africa, Asia & Oceana, Europe, Central & South America, and North America. Also under Statistical Data & Info Resources for links to UN and other international statistical sources.
http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp
How To Do Business in a Country, Including Culture and Language
Economist. Go to this page and type in the country (search audio and video) e.g., Spain or the city Tokyo and you will have an array of videos and audios describing the places and how to do business there. Or click on Audio on the left side and click on “doing business in”.
http://audiovideo.economist.com/
Lex Mundi – Guides to Doing Business
http://www.lexmundi.com/lexmundi/Guides_To_Doing_Business.asp
Aspects of doing business in different countries. Information on doing business in different countries.
http://businessculture.org/
http://www.worldbusinessculture.com/
Gift giving
http://www.cyborlink.com/besite/international_gift_giving.htm
http://www.4hb.com/0113intergift.html
Search Google “gift giving in business”
Bribing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery
www.tranparency.org
http://www.allbusiness.com/search/?q=bribe
Women in International Business
A travel magazine for women, the website is a good source of information, what to wear in different countries and travel tips.
http://www.journeywoman.com/
A non-profit service with information about cultures.
http://canada.servas.org/english.htm
An international friendship and travel network for women
http://www.womenwelcomewomen.org.uk/
Her Own Way: A Woman's Guide to Safe and Successful Travel, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
http://travel.gc.ca/travelling/publications/her-own-way
Global_Competitiveness_Reports/Reports/gender_gap.pdf. This report from the World Economic Forum reports on the global gender gap. Sweden and Norway are at the top of the list with respect to women’s empowerment. China ranks 33, India ranks 53 and Turkey and Egypt are at 57 and 58 of the fifty-eight countries listed.
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalCompetitivenessReport_2014-15.pdf
Travel
Seating diagrams on aircrafts. http://www.seatguru.com/
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention list global destinations and travel health information.
http://www.cdc.gov/
Statistics
Various Countries
WTO. http://stat.wto.org/Home/WSDBHome.aspx
Strategis. The Canadian Government website gives trade information for Canada and US (Trade Data Online) and links to other countries.
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/main.html
Food and resource industry
http://faostat3.fao.org/home/E
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm
Europe
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
Swedish Federal Bank in Swedish. Trade statistics.
http://www.riksbank.se
North America
For USA and Canada
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/eas-aes.nsf/en/h_ra01888e.html
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrkti/tdst/engdoc/tr_homep.html
Trade resources by geographical region
http://www.canadabusiness.ca/eng/page/2824/
Canada
Strategis. The Canadian Government website gives trade information for Canada and USA (Trade Data Online) but also links to other countries.
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrkti/tdst/engdoc/tr_homep.html
USA
US Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/
http://tse.export.gov/
UN
United Nations Statistics Division Millennium Profiles – Statistics on development indicators including computer use, Internet use, phone use, urban population. Social Statistics has data on housing, water treatment, education, income (per capita GDP), unemployment, aging population etc.
http://www.un.org/depts/unsd/
United Nations Statistics Division. Millennium Profiles – Statistics on “development” indicators including computer use, Internet use, phone use, urban population. Social Statistics has data on housing, water treatment, education, income (per capita GDP), unemployment, aging population, etc.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm
Customs, Customs Duties, and Shipping
Harmonized Description and Coding System (HS) World Customs Organization
http://www.wcoomd.org
Customs codes for import and export.
http://www.foreign-trade.com/reference/hscode.htm
See how much is left of quota remains.
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/common/databases/quota/index_en.htm
Freight and Deliveries
ICC, International Chamber of Commerce home page, with a lot of information including Incoterms.
http://www.iccwbo.org/incoterms/id3040/index.html
Incoterms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incoterms
Incoterms http://www.pbb.com/en/tools/incoterms/incoterms2000.pdf
ATA carnet. Updated info at:
http://www.chamber.ca/carnet
Links to trade barrier and market access. Good info about importing.
http://madb.europa.eu/madb/indexPubli.htm
Online Databases
Dialog and Datastar. Proquest. http://www.proquest.com/
Example of searches on Dialog
http://www.exportpro.com
Kompass. http://www.kompass.com
Info USA. http://www.infousa.com
Database, to purchase information
You can buy prepared reports on a specific product and market. For example when searching on energy drinks France, a large number of companies show on the search. Below are some examples:
http://www.marketresearch.com/
http://www.reportlinker.com
http://www.euromonitor.com/
http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/frost-home.pag
http://www.datamonitor.com/
http://research.thomsonib.com/
http://www.ibisworld.com/
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/
Tenders
European Tenders Electronic Daily
http://ted.europa.eu/
Miscellaneous sources
Currencies and Transfer of Money
Oanda - currencies and historic info in most currencies.
http://www.oanda.com
http://www.oanda.com/currency/historical-rates
XE net - a currency converter
http://www.xe.net/currency
The Economist magazine
http://www.economist.com
uses a Big Mac Index as a comparison between the cost of a hamburger in the United States and purchasing power of various world currencies. To see the most recent version, use the Internet and search for “Big Mac index” or go to:
http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index
Information to transfer of money.
http://www.swift.com/
Directories:
Aid organisations. You can find some of them at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:International_development_agencies
World Federation of Trading House Associations (WFTA)
http://www.wfta.org
Risks and Export Insurance
http://external.worldbankimflib.org/external.htm (look at the JOLIS library catalog)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_risk
Export Development Corporation. EDC insures your export invoices, including political risks.
http://edc.ca
A similar organization exists in Sweden.
Exportkreditnämnden. Most countries have similar organizations. The insurance can be taken on continuous business as well as single orders. Look at country list.
EKN, http://www.ekn.se/en/
For organizations in other countries see:
http://www.oecd.org/trade/xcred/eca.htm
Trade treaties. http://www.intracen.org/itc/market-info-tools/trade-treaties-map/
Trade shows
http://eventseeker.com
www.tsnn.com
www.tscentral.com
Trading Blocs, International Organizations, and Bilateral Agreements
Bilateral agreements
Trading blocs
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/region_e/region_areagroup_e.htm
ACP, African, Caribbean, and Pacific States
http://www.acpsec.org/
ACS.Association of Caribbean States
http://www.comunidadandina.org/endex.htm
AFTA Asean Free Trade Area. 10 countries.
http://www.asean.org/
(ALADI) Latin American Integration Association.
http://www.aladi.org/
Anzerta (CER) Australian New Zeeland Closer Economic Agreement. The new name is CER.
http://www.customs.govt.nz/news/resources/factsheets/Documents/Fact%20Sheet%2020.pdf
APEC, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
http://www.apec.org/
APTA Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement.
http://www.unescap.org/tid/apta.asp
ARF, Asean Regional Forum.
http://aseanregionalforum.asean.org/
ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
http://www.asean.org/
AU. African Union.
http://www.au.int/
CACM. Central American Common Market.
http://www.sice.oas.org/trade/camertoc.asp
CAN Andean community.
http://www.comunidadandina.org/endex.htm
Caricom, Caribbean Community.
http://www.caricom.org/
CEFTA, Central European Free Trade Agreement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Free_Trade_Agreement
CEMAC Economic and Monetary Community of Central.
http://www.cemac.int/
CIS Commonwealth of Independent states.
http://www.cisstat.org/eng/cis.htm
COMESA, Common market for eastern and southern Africa.
http://about.comesa.int/
DR-CAFTA , Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_American_Free_Trade_Agreement
EAC, East African Community.
http://www.eac.int/
EAEC Eurasian Economic Community.
http://www.eurasian-ec.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=7
ECO, Economic Cooperation Organization.
http://www.ecosecretariat.org/
ECOWASN, Economic Community if West African States.
http://www.ecowas.int/
EFTA the European Free Trade Association.
http://www.efta.int/
EU, European Union.
http://europa.eu/
FTAA, Free Trade of the Americas.
http://www.ftaa-alca.org/
GCC Gulf Cooperation Council.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/gulf/gcc.htm
GAFTA, Greater Arab Free Trade Area.
http://www.annd.org/english/data/publications/pdf/12.pdf
GSP, Generalised System of Preferences.
http://unctad.org/en/Pages/DITC/GSP/Generalized-System-of-Preferences.aspx
GSTP General System of Trade Preferences among Developing countries.
http://esango.un.org/ldcportal/trade/ism/-/asset_publisher/R2dBsjYiLdZ4/content/global-system-of-trade-preferences-among-developing-countries/19799
LAIA, Latin American Integration Association.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/683773/Latin-American-Integration-Association
Magreb, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghreb
MERCOSUR
http://www.mercosurtc.com/
NAFTA North America Free Trade Agreement.
http://www.naftanow.org/
OAS, Organization of American States.
http://www.oas.org/
Pacific Community.
http://www.spc.int/corp/
SAAC, South Asian Association for regional cooperation.
http://www.saarc-sec.org/
(SACU) Southern African Customs Union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_African_Customs_Union
SADC. Southern Africa Development Community.
http://www.sadc.int/
SAFTA, South Asian Association Free Trade Agreement.
http://saarc-sec.org/areaofcooperation/detail.php?activity_id=5
SPARTECA South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_Regional_Trade_and_Economic_Cooperation_Agreement
WAEMU, West African Economic and Monetary Union.
http://www.dfa.gov.za/foreign/Multilateral/africa/waemu.htm
UEMOA Union Econmique et Monetaire Quest Africaine.
http://www.uemoa.int/Pages/Home.aspx
UMA, Arab Maghreb Union.
http://www.maghrebarabe.org/en/
Other International Organisations of Interest
ADB. Asian Development Bank
http://www.adb.org
AFDB. African Development Bank
http://www.afdb.org
EBRD. European Bank for reconstruction and Development.
http://www.ebrd.org
G8. (Group Eight).
http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/
IATA. International Air Transport Association
http://www.iata.org
IBRD. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It is part of the World Bank.
http:// www.worldbank.org
ICC. International Chamber of commerce
http://www.iccwbo.org
IFC. International Finance Corporation. Part of World Bank to stimulate investments in developing countries.
http://www.ifc.org.
IMF. International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org
ISO. International Organization for Standardization
http://www.iso.ch
OECD. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
http://www.oecd.org/
OPEC. Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries
http://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/
UN. United Nation
http://www.un.org
UNCTAD. United Nation’s Conference on Trade and Development is UN’s organization for trade and investment.
http://www.unctad.org.
World Customs Organization.
http://www.wcoomd.org
WTCA. World Trade Centers Association
http://www.wtca.org.
WTO. World Trade Organisation (Former GATT)
http://www.wto.org
Future Economy
GDP and economic development
PWC The world in 2050.
http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/economy/the-world-in-2050.html
The wealth report. A global perspective.
http://www.investtoronto.ca/InvestAssets/PDF/Reports/The-Wealth-Report-2012.pdf
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds a publication of the National Intelligence Council
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/GlobalTrends_2030.pdf
Richest Countries In The World 2050. Huff post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/08/21/worlds-richest-countries-2050_n_1819547.html
Video. Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four. More about this program: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l
Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development using augmented reality animation story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
Worldmeter
Continuously updated on population, Government and economics, Society and media. Environment, food, water, Energy and health. http://www.worldometers.info/
The Global dept clock. Interactive map. The economist. http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock%20?fsrc=nlw|newe|9-3-2012|3337129|36829541|
Video. Financial Crisis - G20 Preview. 2008.
Already, the World Bank estimates, high food and fuel prices have driven 100 million people into poverty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60NziuroiM&feature=relmfu
Slides. 10 Decrepit Countries That Will Never Boom Again.
http://www.businessinsider.com/slowest-growing-countries-2011-2
Slides. The 10 Fastest Growing Economies Of The Next 40 Years.
http://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-growing-economies-2011-2
Countries/markets
Video. Hans Rosling: Asia's rise how and when. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth since 1858 and predicts the exact date that India and China will outstrip the US.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_asia_s_rise_how_and_when.html
Cities
Dubai's Luxury Life - Full Documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myPzCEXXtvw&list=UUIup_mBthX8oUFOJUkPPtkA
Video Go #InsideInnovation at Cisco IoE Innovation Center Songdo.
"Amazing things happen when you connect the previously unconnected." Such is the work of Cisco's Innovation Center in Songdo, Korea a city in one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ake6ZbnCEvohttp://songdo.ciscogcoe.com/
Songdo International City, South Korea Time lapse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7jxE44MhzM
Video. Becamex IDC Corp Binh Duong New City.
3D rendering for Binh Duong New City. This ambitious project is developed by Becamex. This is a new city comprising of high-class apartments, buildings, malls, universities, administrative head-quarters, offices to host 1 million people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rJsI0gN5as
The World's Future MEGAPROJECTS (2015-2030's)
A documentary on the ten most ambitious mega-projects currently under development around the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOCpo10zQlM
Trade
Trade development, WTO report. (New every year)
https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/wtr15-1_e.pdf
Oracle. E-Commerce. Report
https://blogs.oracle.com/cx/entry/2014_b2b_commerce_survey_results
Population
Video. Global population growth.
Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box. The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html
United Nations. Population forecast to 2050.
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/2015-report.html
United Nation. Report on population development by country to 2050.
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/worldageing19502050/countriesorareas.htm
Labour force
Index Mundi. Labour force by country.
http://www.indexmundi.com/map/?v=72
International Labour Organization. Employment trends.
http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/global-employment-trends/2014/WCMS_233953/lang--en/index.htm
OECD.Stat Average annual hours actually worked per worker.
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ANHRS
GFMAG. Unemployment rates around the world.
http://www.gfmag.com/global-data/economic-data/worlds-unemployment-ratescom#axzz1v4NpWibk
GFMAG Labor Productivity.
http://www.gfmag.com/magazine/december-2012/polls-and-stats-labor-productivity-#axzz1v4NpWibk
The Conference board. International compensation costs in Manufacturing.
https://www.conference-board.org/ilcprogram/index.cfm?id=28269
GFMAG. Personal Income tax rates.
http://www.gfmag.com/global-data/economic-data/personal-income-tax-rates#axzz1v4NpWibk
Manufacturing
Manufacturing the future: The next era of global growth and innovation. McKinsey Global Institute - November 2012.
http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/the-future-of-manufacturing
Manufacturing, The factory of the future
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2013/10/manufacturing
The Future of Manufacturing. Opportunities to drive economic growth. Deloitte
http://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/manufacturing/articles/future-of-manufacturing.html
Natural resources
Top 10 Energy Sources of the Future. These are ten most promising alternative energy sources of tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStFvcz9Or4
10. Space-based solar power.
http://energy.gov/articles/space-based-solar-power
9. Human Power.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-harness-human-power-electricity/
8. Tidal Power.
http://www.renewablegreenenergypower.com/ocean-energy-facts/
7. Hydrogen (fuel cells).
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter20.html. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-powered_aircraft
6. Geothermal heat from underground lava beds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-powered_aircraft ,
https://theconversation.com/drilling-surprise-opens-door-to-volcano-powered-electricity-22515
5. Nuclear Waste.
http://nautil.us/issue/7/waste/our-nuclear-waste-is-a-goldmine. http://gehitachiprism.com/
4. Solar windows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics
3. Bio-fuels (algae).
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/20/alabama-gets-first-world-carbon-negative-algae-biofuel/ . http://biofuel.org.uk/biofuel-facts.html
2. Flying wind farms.
http://news.mit.edu/2014/high-flying-turbine-produces-more-power-0515 . www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3
1. Nuclear fusion.
http://www.americansecurityproject.org/10-key-facts-about-nuclear-fusion/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Timeline_and_current_status
http://www.zdnet.com/article/nuclear-fusion-from-google-lockheed-draper-fisher/
Institute of energy research. World energy forecast 2035.
http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/eia-forecast-world-energy-led-by-china-to-grow-53-percent-by-2035/
International Energy Agency. Energy outlook.
http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/
Video. TED. Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, talks about his life as an inventor, starting with his high-school company selling solar energy plans and kits. Learn here about a groundbreaking system for solar cells and some questions we haven't yet solved. http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_on_new_energy
Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy. In this intimate talk filmed at TED's offices, energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the US off oil and coal by 2050, $5 trillion cheaper
http://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_a_50_year_plan_for_energy
Nautilus Energy. Mining under water.
http://www.nautilusminerals.com/IRM/content/default.aspx
Marketing and advertising
South Korean supermarket chain opens virtual grocery stores in subways
One inventive South Korean supermarket chain is using technology to completely change the way we buy groceries. Noticing that it was a distant second in the grocery store market in Korea, Tesco embarked on an innovative ad campaign to get people to use its online shopping services, reports.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/south-korean-supermarket-chain-opens-virtual-grocery-stores-in-subways/#ixzz4AFAg9bfU
How digital is transforming retail: The view from eBay. Does mobile commerce spell the end of traditional stores? In this series of short videos, Devin Wenig, the president of eBay Marketplaces, explains the impact of digitization and why retailers must evolve to survive. http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/how-digital-is-transforming-retail-the-view-from-ebay
Future Environment
Climate change
Future Disaster Impossible to Avoid (Full Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlqrRVYrXMk&list=UUIup_mBthX8oUFOJUkPPtkA
Reuters. World's largest polluters.
http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/who-are-the-worlds-biggest-polluters?articleId=USRTXRKSI#a=1
"Future Earth" [2014 Full Documentary]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298672pLJxU&list=UUIup_mBthX8oUFOJUkPPtkA
4 billion people face water shortages, scientists find
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/02/4-billion-people-face-severe-water-scarcity-at-least-for-one-month-every-year/?FB=1
Future Technology
Technology
Future Technology that will blow your Mind (Full Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffWCVhOFpDQ&list=UUIup_mBthX8oUFOJUkPPtkA
"Future Earth 2050" #Mind Blow Full Documentary 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j43ohnuYBWk
Future Technologies Secrets That Will Blow Your Mind (Full New Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ALFRo7Gp-o
Future Humanoid Robots #Mind Blow (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGuMjl51py4&list=UUIup_mBthX8oUFOJUkPPtkA
Video. Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four. The industrial revolution.
Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
Video. The world 2030. Professor Michio Kaku. "The World in 2030: How Science will Affect Computers, Medicine, Jobs, Our Lifestyles and the Wealth of our Nations" Wednesday, October 28, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=219YybX66MY
Video. PaperTab: Revolutionary paper tablet reveals future tablets to be thin and flexible as paper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81iiGWdsJgg
http://business.financialpost.com/2013/01/07/ces-2013-canadian-researchers-team-up-with-intel-and-plastic-logic-to-create-paper-tablet/?__lsa=13c6-8b06
3D printing
Video. London 3D printer show: A world of pure (plastic) imagination. London 3D printer show: A world of pure (plastic) imagination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEKns8T7yUA
Video. Leaders Of The 3D Printing Revolution.
Published on Jan 14, 2013. Shapeways opens up 3D printing to the masses, allowing us to design and share our ideas as well as realize them as physical objects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS4Xw8f9LCc
Video. Make Your Own Products with 3D Printing.
Turn yourself into an action figure or make your own earrings as 3D technology changes the future of how we buy and make our products.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3OfjYlXUCU
What If 3D Printing Was 100x Faster? | Joseph DeSimone | TED Talks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihR9SX7dgRo
Manufacturing including robotics
Video. New Honda Robot ASIMO.
Here you can see the behaviors and interactions of robots. If you want know more about robotics and their features, behaviors, classifications, applications.
http://asimo.honda.com/ http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
Rise of the machines: Robots poised to transform global manufacturing.
Get ready. The robots are coming. Advanced industrial robotics are at an "inflection point," with lower costs and higher capabilities set to reshape the global manufacturing industry, according to new research from Boston Consulting Group.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rise-of-the-machines-robots-poised-to-transform-global-manufacturing/article22884032/
Robobarista Can Learn How To Operate Your Coffee Machine.
http://www.popsci.com/robobarista-can-learn-how-operate-your-coffee-machine
Video. Humanitarian Crisis and Disaster Response Robots.
Robotics expert William Whittaker from Carnegie Mellon University, charts the rise of robots from nuclear clean up to underwater rescue and recovery. He says robots can go where humans can't, and shows how they help save people and the planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAFzo-6rd2k
Future Humanoid Robots #Mind Blow (Documentary).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGuMjl51py4&list=UUIup_mBthX8oUFOJUkPPtkA
Army in the Future - Humanoid Robots (New Documentary 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3mc75oIsj0&list=UUIup_mBthX8oUFOJUkPPtkA
Auto. Driverless cars
Video. Ted. Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car. Sebastian Thrun helped build Google's amazing driverless car, powered by a very personal quest to save lives and reduce traffic accidents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp9KBrH8H04
Video. Volvo safe road train technology. The exciting EU SARTRE project has now been running for a year. Its purpose is to develop, test and validate technology for vehicles that can drive themselves in long road trains on motorways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpv9YJ4OvkE
Cars of the Future [Full Documentary]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZZGpMjJr4A
Drones
The Future of Drones: Uncertain, Promising and Pretty Awesome. By Edd Gent, Live Science Contributor
http://www.livescience.com/52701-future-of-drones-uncertain-but-promising.html#sthash.dJRW5HTs.dpuf
The Future of Drones: Wikistrat Report. http://www.wikistrat.com/tag/the-future-of-drones/
Video. These three drones suggest that the future of flying robots is closer than ever
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-06/video-this-is-the-future-of-drones
How The Next Generation Of Drones Could Reshape Future War. Modern drones, meanwhile, aren't changing modern wars that much. By Kelsey D. Atherton .
http://www.popsci.com/how-next-generation-drones-could-reshape-future-war
Medical
Video. World economic Forum Future Computing: Brain-Based Chips
Henry Markram. "Every ten to twenty minutes today we produce the same amount of data we produced over the past one hundred years. In the next ten years we'll produce that in five seconds," says Henry Markram in this video for the World Economic Forum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCql2DgW5sE
Video. 3D printing gives man a new face and a new life. A British man lost the left side of his face after a surgery to remove a tumour. After the surgery he was unable to eat and drink properly due to a hole in his face. After a doctor used 3D printing technology to create a prosthetic face and rebuild the left side, he was finally able to get his life back and live like a normal person again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SWw_qM6_8I
Girl Gets New Hand Thanks To 3-D Printing Technology. NBC news. Faith Lennox had part of her arm amputated at an early age, but is able to surf, swim, and bike a lot easier thanks to some incredible technology.
http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/girl-gets-new-hand-thanks-to-3-d-printing-technology-420919363875
Video. TED. The wireless Future in Medicine. Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine's future all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds.
http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_topol_the_wireless_future_of_medicine
Video. TED. The potential of regenerative medicine. Alan Russell studies regenerative medicine a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury, using a process that can signal the body to rebuild itself.
http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_russell_on_regenerating_our_bodies
Video. TED. Growing new organs. Anthony Atala's state-of-the-art lab grows human organ from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that "prints" human tissue.
http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_growing_organs_engineering_tissue
Video. TED. Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution? Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic modification, to make ourselves smarter, faster, better. Neo-evolution is within our grasp. What will we do with it?
http://www.ted.com/talks/harvey_fineberg_are_we_ready_for_neo_evolution
Video. Ted. Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement. Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could sidestep the high costs and donor shortfall of human-to-human transplants with a novel use of animal tissue.
http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_stone_the_bio_future_of_joint_replacement
TED. Video. Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that. Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside.
http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kraft_medicine_s_future
TED. Video. Allan Jones: A map of the brain. How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which genes are turned on in each tiny region, and how it all connects up.
http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_jones_a_map_of_the_brain
Video. Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery healing without cuts. Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths.
http://www.ted.com/talks/yoav_medan_ultrasound_surgery_healing_without_cuts
Video. Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future. Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating but not for the squeamish.
http://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_mohr_surgery_s_past_present_and_robotic_future
Video. Ted. Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the best-known methods for treating cancer. At TEDMED, Bill Doyle presents a new approach, called Tumor Treating Fields, which uses electric fields to interrupt cancer cell division. Still in its infancy and approved for only certain types of cancer the treatment comes with one big benefit: quality of life.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_doyle_treating_cancer_with_electric_fields
Video Michio Kaku: Can Nanotechnology Create Utopia? Dr. Kaku addresses the question of the possibility of utopia, the perfect society that people have tried to create throughout history. These dreams have not been realized because we have scarcity. However, now we have nanotechnology, and with nanotechnology, perhaps, says Dr. Michio Kaku, maybe in 100 years, we'll have something called the replicator, which will create enormous abundance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzgVWpa4fzU
How Will Nanotechnology Change the World? - Full Documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG9P8DLuh0U
Sensors let Alzheimer's patients stay at home, safely. Technology like this pillbox sensor from Lively can help caretakers monitor people with Alzheimer's and dementia from afar.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/25/tech/innovation/alzheimers-smart-home/
Food
CNET 3D printed meat: It's what's for dinner.
http://www.cnet.com/news/3d-printed-meat-its-whats-for-dinner/
Wbpronews. SHMEAT: The Lab-Grown Meat We May Get To Eat This Year.
http://www.webpronews.com/shmeat-test-tube-meat-2012-01
The vertical farm.
http://www.verticalfarm.com/
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/24/vertical-farming-the-next-big-thing-for-food-and-tech.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/vertical-farming-can-urban-agriculture-feed-a-hungry-world-a-775754.html
Urban Cultivator. Producing vegetables in the kitchen.
http://www.urbancultivator.net/
Future Videos Economist.
http://www.economist.com/multimedia?bclid=1294626183001&bctid=3963947895001