COMPARISONS BETWEEN COUNTRIES

Cyber School Bus Comparison of statistics click on the info nation tab at the side

http://www.gapminder.org/ Some superb animations of statistical data on development - ICT

http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/HDI ranking world map and HD trends
Interactive world development maps from Canadian

Geographic http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/worldmap/cida/cidaworldmap.aspx

There is an interesting article on contrasting development in Ghana & Malaysia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4398537.stm