i. International Risk Researcher

ii. Katie Hayes

iii. I would like to develop an on-line risk assessment tool that would
provide different statistics for someone interested in making investments
or learning about a particular country.

iv. My project will consist of an interactive website that displays a list
of regions and countries in the world. The name of each country will be a
link to its data, and each country page will include a map of the country,
political makeup, population, top industries, top resources, average age,
etc. I would also like to incorporate a Google web services tool that
would allow the user to monitor news for their selected region or country.
A comparison tool would allow the user to select several different
countries/regions, and compare their data side by side.  I also think it
would be interesting to provide the feature of displaying the most
frequently viewed countries or regions. A last possible thing to include
would be the ability for the viewer to enter an email address and have the
information that he or she is looking at emailed to them or a friend.

v. I have chosen this project because I have an interest in international
development and find the search for different statistics that represent
the political, social and economic climates of different places
challenging. It will give users quick access to a collection of data that
is usually spread across many different sources.

vi. This project will resemble the infrastructure of the previous
homeworks - primarily a combination of java servlets and xsl stylesheets,
and will most likely require the inclusion of several different xml
documents. I will need to learn about web services, wsdl, soap and also
how to send emails via a servlet to a destination email.

vii. One of my concerns is not being able to find the appropriate data in
XML format, which makes me wonder about the process and feasibility of
converting tab-delimited data into XML. Also, not having done any research
into it yet, I am not quite sure what technologies to use for the email
aspect of the projec or how to go about it.