Andrew Dunn
Subscribe to Andrew Dunn's postsWorld Cities report 2016 launched
From UN Habitat this year’s annual report focuses on the theme of urbanization and development: emerging futures. It considers problems urban areas are facing relating issues such as inequality, climate change, insecurity. View a slideshow of the worldwide growth of cities from 1990-2015.
World Humanitarian Summit
This week the World’s First international humanitarian conference opened. But can a United Nations Summit fix a system being stretched beyond capacity? Listen to this podcast from UN Despatch to see what Shannon Scribner Oxfam America’s Humanitarian Policy Manager thinks. Then browse the further links on our special blog postings. The second of which spotlight […]
Recipe
As the BBC launch the demise of their online recipe website admin public outcry discover how the Web Archive is conserving the site forever. And explore these fabulous historic cookbook collections: The British library has a learning site with excerpts from cookbooks from the middle ages to 1900 The Women’s Library@LSE digital library has some […]
Flood data portal
New from UNOSAT download satellite-derived flood data in GIS vector format from the United Nations. It covers the period 2007 onwards and was developed to aid humanitarian aid agencies and can be downloaded into into online maps, ArcGIS and other GIS systems, such as Google Earth, UNOSAT also has a broader GIS and map online […]
Refugee use of mobile phones
The Open University has released a research report on how refugees use smartphones. It was led by Prof. Marie Gillespie and was carried out in partnership with France Medias Monde. It investigates the physical and digital journeys of Syrian and Iraqi refugees documenting the digital media services used for news so the EU can develop […]
Many access news on smartphones
According to a number of recent research studies many people are now using their smartphones. A report from the Knight Foundation recently found that , 89% of the U.S. mobile population (144 million users) now access news using a smartphone. Also released this week a Pew report on engagement and reading of news by American […]
Inclusive Growth Monitor
New from the Joseph Rowntree Trust a tool for examining and measuring the relationship between poverty and growth. It contains data on all 39 Local Enterprise Partnerships for 18 indicators showing if economic growth leads to a decrease in poverty and social disadvantage. Interestingly one finding is that in many cases increased prosperity does not necessarily lead […]
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 2016
IDAHOT 2016 was celebrated on May 17th. Find out why this day was chosen and why it continues to be needed with this blog posting from the LSE. Create your own Facebook avator (Using the Youth Voices Count website) to show your support – every day.
Prison Reform
This week the RSA published an interesting scoping paper on the future prison. Browse their website to see other examples discussing the role and future reform of prisons. Howard League for Penal Reform is the oldest prison reform charity in the UK. Its website has news stories, policy and research publications covering all aspects of […]
Chilean political songs
For political songs try this recently released Spanish archive. Cantos Cautivos: Online Archive of Songs of Political Captivity in Pinochet’s Chile 1973–1990
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