Globalization Reference Sites

* Primary Reference Sites

Global Internet Statistics- by language The best reference for language information.

The number of people on-line by country

Other reference info from UNA Limited

ITM Solutions An annotated set of data for countries, so there's some history.

General Reference Sites and General Info Reference

Cyber Atlas

Internet Marketing Hot List

Global Web Development - Jakob Nielson Column

More Detailed Sources

A general intro - discussing Apache Server How To Make a Multi-Lingual Web Server - Univ of Vancouver

http://vancouver-Webpages.com/multilingual/howto.html

ISO639 2-character language codes - a copy, not the original source reference http://vancouver-Webpages.com/multilingual/iso639a.txt

An alternate site

ISO3166 2-character country codes - a copy, not the original source reference http://vancouver-Webpages.com/multilingual/ccodes.txt

An alternate site

RFC 1766 - Tags for the Identification of Languages ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt- the actual reference.

One person's opinion about language development on the web From The Independent July 8, 1997

A framework for evaluating web sites from a customer's perspective of value-added.

A Global Study of Commercial Sites- by James Ho, University of Illinois at Chicago Internet Leapfrog: The Impact of the Internet on Global Economic Competition - APR may leapfrog Europe by 2001

IDC Report