1. Academic Information Database, Gender Component:

A database on the World Wide Web using data from Thailand, Vietnam,
China, and Japan on modernisation and gender in Asia and the Asian
diaspora.  The database will be accessible free of charge and is for
use by researchers engaged in the first stage of primary research. For
those outside the regions represented, the bibliographic and other
materials presented online enable the researcher to compile and 
understand sources before undertaking fund-seeking and time commitments
to travel to the area he/she will study. Sources are multilingual
and can be searched in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai.
Funding: Japanese Ministry of Education and Keio University

2. To build a large database for the participating organisations and
individuals, the information structures they use, and their
recommendations, and their follow-up data on the populations they have served.

2.  To make the database as easily and globally accessible as possible
at low cost through a variety of media. 

3.  To enhance the database for learnability, by providing technical
support for remote users, convenient, well-categorised links within
the network, and multimedia technology.

4.  To establish analytical procedures that can be updated frequently,
and that can be used more broadly for a variety of gender and
development information issues.

5.  To expand the network of participating organisations to include
other areas of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim.

6.  To build a database to cross-reference information from project
members in development organisations in other areas.

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Last updated 22 May 2000