Language, Literacy, and Culture

The Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) is a nonprofit foundation designed to foster an awareness and appreciation of cultural differences in both the international and domestic arenas. ICI offers resources for intercultural, cross-cultural, multicultural, international, diversity training, and education.

This site presents Hofstede's Cultural dimensions a little simplified and linked with other resources including Intercultural business communication tool, articles and videos on ICC.

This is the website of the Dutch organizational sociologist, Geert Hofstede, who studied the interactions between national cultures and organizational cultures, and Gert Jan Hofstede, a Dutch population biologist and social scientist in information management and social simulation interested in the interplay of the contrasting forces of cultural evolution, societal change and cultural stability.

The site provides information on the history, economy,and politics of countries and territories. Each profile includes an overview, map, facts, current leader, and information on the media. Links provide access to key stories and clips from the BBC archives. Good supplement to the CIA Fact Book, and State Department files.

Multi-lingual online collection of more than 4 million digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections. Funded by the European Commission and the member states.

Origins of common first names in many languages.

With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.

Facilitates access to web sites available in twelve languages; some of the web sites available only to UV community.