As the number of Trade Points connected to the Internet increases every week, the Global Trade Point Network (GTPN) is rapidly emerging as the largest global network for trade, investment and services. It will become increasingly difficult for any major trading partner to stay out of it, and the subsequent increase in traffic will allow substantive reductions in the cost of collecting, formatting, transmitting and processing information via the network. This will allow both a continued increase in the number of Trade Point beneficiaries (especially SMEs) and a strengthening of the technological advance characterizing the UNTPDC Mirror Sites approach (through reinvestment in research and development).
The primary objective of TPDC Mirror Site is to assist Trade Points in their country, subregion or region to get connected to the Global Trade Point Network, particularly through the Internet. The UNCTAD-TPDC Main Servers in Geneva and Melbourne are connected with national or sub-regional TPDC Mirror Sites providing decentralized access to the GTPN for Trade Points in their area.
Just click in a region of the map and you will be automatically connected to the TPDC Site
The information and databases available at the TPDC Mirror Sites is copyright of UNCTAD and can not be modify without previous authorization, this includes the images files and html presentations.
The UNCTAD Trade Point Development Centre UNTPDC was establish in June 1993 and initially located in Bangkok (Thailand) working closely with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific ESCAP and the Asia Institute of Technology.
Since July 1995, the UNTPDC moved the operations to Melbourne, Australia and is hosted by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technologies, sharing research and development resources.
The UNTPDC is presently developing initiatives that will enhance the world of tomorrow. Is already working to design a post-Internet world in which a micro-enterprise in a rural area of a less developed country can easily trade and correspond with a company in a major city-hub or browse through an overseas global library of trade documents and directories by instantaneous communications using Trade Points as TeleCentres.
The leap from vision to reality has been exponential at the UNTPDC, not gradual. The most sweeping changes in communications, standards, security, networking and transactional mechanism over the past three decades have been compressed into the short space of the past few years.
In only 2 years of existence the UNTPDC has achieved a large number of development projects and breakthrough technologies such as:
The UNTPDC is now installing Mirror Sites in several non-profit environments. The TPDC Mirror Site software is a package written in Perl that uses the ftp protocol to duplicate a directory hierarchy between the machine it is run on and a remote host.
The Mirror Site (MS software) allows two TPDC Mirror Sites to have the same data by transferring updates automatically from the main Server in Melbourne to the Mirror Sites location. The MS Software avoids copying files unnecessarily by comparing the file time-stamps and sizes before transferring, only new updates at the TPDC Host Server will be transferred to the MS. The software amongst other things, can optionally compress the files (html, pictures, videos) using gzip, and split files.
The UNTPDC MS Software was written for use by TPDC Labs archive and database maintainers but can be used by anyone on the Internet wanting to transfer a large amount of files via ftp. This will be particular useful for Trade Points using the UNTPDC Incubator services and requiring to transfer large amount of HTML files to their UNTPDC Incubator directories.
src.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.2.1]
directory: computing/archiving/mirror
(shortcut packages/mirror)
Click here to download.
ftp.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.55.75]
directory: pub/networking/mirror
Click here to download.
ftp.sun.ac.za [146.232.212.2]
directory: pub/packages/mirror
Click here to download.
For your convinience we maintain a copy at our site:
mirror-2.3.tar.gzNetscape users please note:
For further information on how to use the UNTPDC Mirror Site software please contact at cmoreira@eto.geis.com. Att: Carlos Moreira, Head UNTPDC.