The goal of the project (submitted on 9-24-97) was to create an international classification and codification of all the statistics used in IOs, to gather knowledge on these indicators, and to develop a methodology and an Internet based computer system to transfer this statistical data from country to IOs in real time. The more general objectives as described in (1.) are:
(b) To help developing countries learn about the standard indicators used in international organizations to measure, among others, economic, social, and health evolution by creating a classification for these indicators and an Internet accessible knowledge base.
(c) To lower transfer cost of statistics from countries to international organizations.
(d) To simplify, in the future, statistical data integration in the given subjects by creating a codification of standard indicators.
(e) To speed up statistical knowledge diffusion by developing a real-time collection methodology using Internet and artificial intelligence.
(f) To simplify the work of researchers, economists, epidemiologists, consultants, etc. by identifying, locating, and classifying all standard indicators available for their research.
An important feature of the system is that it could be used at the national level too (including in poor countries), and therefore that we can develop computer systems that can be used by every country in the world at the same time - this gives a real hope to solve the problem of poverty rapidly because (if we developed this type of systems,) poor country could upgrade (part of) their information systems at no cost or almost no cost which would speed up their development greatly, of course [see (12.) for detailed explanation].