19 Jun 2009

Asia Matters for America (AMA)
East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, US
Self-description:
"Asia Matters for America (AMA) provides a hub for American and Asian audiences to explore the importance and impact of Asia in the United States by State and Congressional District. AMA provides government, academia, civil society, media and business with an interactive website that graphically displays useful trends and accurate data on how Asia matters at the U.S. state and local level.
Current Data Includes:
* U.S. exports to Asia;
* U.S. employment linked to exports to Asia;
* Asian foreign-born and ethnic Asian-alone population in the United States;
* Asian foreign students in the United States."
Site contents:
* Help & About; * Top 10; * Congressional Districts; * States; * [Interactive] Map and Data by State and Congressional District; * Search [by #Data: Exports, Employment, Ethnicity, Students, etc.; #Unit of measurement: Raw values, percent of total, per capita, etc.; #Year: 2001 - current].
URL http://www.asiamattersforamerica.org/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300