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Australia's Cultural Network
The Interent gateway to Australian cultural organisations, websites, resources, events and news; to improve public access to, appreciation of and participation in, Australian cultural endeavour, commerce, activities and events. It is also an exchange centre for resources, ideas and information where cultural workers and organisations can improve and develop their use of online services. An initiative of the Australian Federal Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.

Asialink Centre  - Australia
Aims to help Australians be confident and capable of living and working in partnership with their counterparts in the Asian region. Asialink promotes a positive understanding of Asia in Australia and of Australia in Asia. Programs in education, public affairs and the arts. Carlton, Australia

Border Crossings
Web project by Karla Tonella, University of Iowa. Diaspora, La Frontera, Gender, LesBiGay, Cyborgs, Border Incidents, Other Borders.

CIVILA - Ciudades Virtuales Latinas
Supports the presence of Latin culture on the Internet. Provides free webspace to indivuduals, cultural, social and ecological institutions

Culturelink
UNESCO and the Council of Europe co-founded the Network of Networks for Research and Cooperation in Cultural Development, the Culturelink Network, in 1989. Its main purpose is to facilitate reliable and quick exchange of information among cultural and research institutions all over the world and to stimulate cooperation. The Network is headquartered at the Institute for International Relations, in Zagreb. Website includes: Research, Databases, Publications, Activities, Related Sites, Bulletin, Cultural Development Database, Policy Database.

Dialogue among Cultures
A series of encounters, in which individual travellers or communities have conveyed their ideas and customs across whole continents and oceans, are celebrated in a series of UNESCO projects. See the Roads of intercultural dialogue: Silk Roads, Slave Routes, Iron Roads, Convergence of religions and intercultural dialogue.

Partners in African Publishing
The goal of the programme is to create and nurture equitable long-term relationships that support the development of a lively and sustainable indigenous publishing industry in Africa. Incorporating the CODE Europe Archive.

Postcolonial Web - Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English
Extensive website: Africa, Australia, India, Caribbean, New Zealand, UK, Bibliographyie, Theorie, etc. Presented by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island).

Radio Bridge Overseas  - Zimbabwe
RBO has two fields of operation: as an audio subscription service providing Southern broadcasters with a market which constitutes a South-South and a South-North dialogue, and as a consultancy and training facility in digital audio production. In charge: Klaus Juergen Schmidt

The Subject and the Others  - Germany
An interdisciplinary research project at the university of Trier concerning the questions about ethnocentrism and gender in art and literature from an european perspective. (German)
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