Governments on the WWW: Contents of this Website

This database contains links to governmental institutions, which provide information on the World Wide Web.

In particular, this database includes:

institutions of the legislative branch (parliaments)
institutions of the executive branch (ministries, agencies, administrations, offices, institutes, councils, committees and others)
institutions of the judicative branch (law courts)
governmental representations in foreign countries (embassies, consulates and others)
some other government-related institutions

In addition, this database includes:

political parties and party alliances (on national, regional and municipal level)
parliamentary groups, youth organizations etc. of political parties (only on national level)

Not included in this database are:

educational institutions (universities, colleges, schools, etc.)
cultural institutions (libraries, museums, theatres, etc.)
medical institutions (hospitals, etc.)
business corporations (even if they are entirely owned by the government)
non-governmental research institutes
governmental websites that do not represent a particular governmental institution
information about governments, which is not provided by or on behalf of a governmental institution
parliamentary groups, youth organizations etc. of political parties (on regional and municipal level)
individual politicians (members of parliament, cabinet members, etc.)