ECA is engaged in organizing information on Africa's development, in particular regional information, for dissemination through CD-ROMs, cassettes, printed material, the Internet and other media. Databases are packaged and disseminated as part of the divisions' work programme. To achieve this it maintains a regional database to support the commission's analytical and research needs and serving as a regional service center for data on Africa's economic, social, demographic and environmental statistics.

It also works to support the development of national data-processing capabilities with a view to the improvement of quality, relevance, timeliness and inter-country comparability of statistical data and facilitating access to national, sub regional and regional databases.

This section links to online ECA databases or outputs from ECA databases.

• Major Meetings and Events Database [Online database]
  http://www.uneca.org/event
• Africa on the Internet: an annotated guide to African Web sites [Output from an offline database]
  http://www.bellanet.org/partners/aisi/nici/africacontent.htm
• PADDEV (Bibiliographic database on Social and Economic development on Africa) [Web version under construction]
• PADINS (Database of African development institutions) [Web version under construction]
• PADEXP (Database of African Experts) [Web version under construction]