Talk:International Trade Centre

This article has become a marketing brochure
The article has been heavily edited and now reads like a marketing brochure by ITC's communication team. - There is nothing about the organisation's structure, constituive elements, governance, results, or funding. - ITC is probably to 99% funded by governments, either as part of its Regular Budget (from the WTO and the UN) or through Extrabudgetary funds that bilateral and multilateral donnors (i.e., countries and other international organisations). The articles gives the impression as if private funding was the most important source. - It seems as if different parts of the organisation were not very coordinated in turning the article into an advertisement. The section about the "online tools" repeats the title "Programs". Karl Magnus (talk) 14:21, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

I will try to clean the article over the next days.

Wikifying the article
I made some changes to the article in order to address the three problems mentioned in the banner at the top. Would be glad if someone could review.

Editing "see also" section
The reference to "Comtrade" seems to point to an article which is not linked to the topic. The correct reference is most likely the United Nations COMTRADE database, for which there is no article in Wikipedia. I suggest to withdraw "Comtrade" from the "See also" section and add a link to UN Comtrade (a precise page of this site explicitly referencing the International Trade Centre?) under the "References" section. This seems more appropriate to me as UN Comtrade refers to some data produced by the International Trade Centre (referenced as "ITC" on UN Comtrade web pages). Cdur73 (talk) 14:39, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Standards map
Standards map redirects here, so it should be mentioned somewhere in the article. I guess it is related to standardsmap.org. - Jochen Burghardt (talk) 17:52, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Adding Global Public Good section and details
I have added a paragraph on one of ITC's services that became Global Public Goods since 2008. This involves 3 online tools for users in developing countries to consult trade related issues without any costs. The initiative was accepted and financed by donors to ITC Trust Fund as well as the European Commission. I am also thinking about adding more details about each tool in the coming days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pitchaya Eam-on (talk • contribs) 15:13, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

On July 8, I added details on the first tool: Trade Map including the recent development on the database. I am now working on the text for other two tools. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pitchaya Eam-on (talk • contribs) 08:55, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

I just just added the content on the Market Access Map. I think it could be useful to the community if I link as many technical terms to explanatory pages as possible - I will look into this later.