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International Organization Information / Research: 2000 (Part #5)

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• Yearbook Plus: International Organizations and Biographies: The annual edition was produced as planned in the normal manner in October 1999. It included part of the revised text from the Whos Who in International Organizations
• Encyclopedia Plus: Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential: The production of a CD version within the context of the contract through which some Encyclopedia databases were currently being developed was excluded in preference to web publication

Online: A distinction should be made between the ca. 11,000 static pages placed by the UIA on the server of the non-UIA service provider and the UIA databases accessible dynamically on the UIA NT server connected to that service. The period July-October 1999 saw the relatively traumatic demise of the Agora service provider (a cooperative of which the UIA was a founding member) and a switch to a commercial service provider that has itself since been absorbed into a multinational service provider

• Static pages: These continue to be maintained on a relatively low priority basis. They generate a significant amount of feedback and serve a major marketing function. A major shift was made during 1999 from access offered to demo version of the 2 databases to dynamic access. Many static pages were downgraded to point through to the dynamic pages.
• Dynamic pages: Most UIA databases are now "accessible" on the web. However the only databases freely accessible to "Guests" are those relating to the current development contracts of the Encyclopedia, namely the Problems and Strategies databases. The other databases are only accessible for test purposes. However SAUR has now agreed to a system whereby the UIA will allow access to the Organizations database under subscription that will be integrated into the marketing of the book and CD versions.

It is worth noting the understandable explosion in activity of international organizations on the Web. Some 14,863 organizations now have websites. 17,390 have e-mail at their main offices, and 1,679 have e-mail at their regional offices.

Statistics on access to UIA websites are presented in Annex 1. The UIA dynamic site currently has over 8,500 registered users