The World Elite Database project
The WED is an international consortium of scholars working together to develop a new standardized data regime to study and share data about elites across the world. These are defined as rich list members, top CEOs, elected politicians and top bureaucrats, interest groups (business organisations, lobbies, unions). The website is developing data from 15 nations, […]
IMF revamps data portal
The IMF’s new data portal provides streamlined access to international financial data it is easy to explore and has updated API capabilities.
Economic Wellbeing Explorer
This new data resource has been recently launched by Smart Data Foundry. It intends to enable researchers, policy makers and journalists to explore mapped statistical datasets relating to financial well-being at national, regional, and local levels in the UK. Top-level insights will be available for free at a national and regional level, with deeper insights at a local […]
Black Social Worker Oral History Project
This project is led by staff at Coventry University’s Centre for Peace and Security. It has collected materials relating to 19 Black social workers who have worked with and supported vulnerable children in care since the 1970s. The website includes their oral history accounts and a timeline of key policies relating to race and social […]
Soldier magazine archive online
80-year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, Soldier, has been digitised and is now available online for free. It covers the period 1945 onwards and includes news stories, letters from army personnel, and original adverts. This edition from 1949 has examples of adverts, accounts of postings in Singapore. NOTE: outdated and unacceptable language and […]
Direction of AI Innovation in the UK
This report from Institute for Public Policy Research outlines the AI innovation landscape in the UK to determine which type of AI deployment is and is not currently taking place. It is based on a database of 3,256 AI firms in the UK to identify ‘AI deployment gaps’, and make recommendations for how they can […]
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