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What is bitcoin? Find out using this handy Harvard Business school working paper . Bitcoin.org -unofficial website managed by Bitcoin core developers Coinmetrics allows you to view detailed statistics Quandl also has free data Repec has economic papers
United States Election 2010 Web Archive
The United States Election 2010 Web Archive This new collection of over 1,2000 archived websites relates to the USA 2010 elections. Each one has a description and several snapshots of the site through out the campaign enabling the examination of issue development. The UK has its own national Web Archive with special collections for elections. […]
Parental monitoring of internet use
Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2014 The latest report from Ofcom presents findings on the use of new media by British children and the role of parents in monitoring Internet use. EU Kids Online has related reports from EU nations The literature database of the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational […]
Scottish independence
Scottish independence referendum collection Details about this project from the National Library of Scotland which will include a webarchive . Also this week a House of Commons Library briefing summarising the outcome.
Human rights resolutions portal
Human rights resolutions portal Created by the Universal Rights Group. The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system. This database has the full text of every resolution, decision and presidential statement adopted by the Council since 2006. Another good resource for human rights is hurisearch which cross searches over 5,000 specialist […]
Right to education: global database
Right to education global database New from UNESCO a gateway to information on legal and civil rights relating to education worldwide. Includes country profiles, laws, policies and monitoring reports submitted to UNESCO.
Leicester Hate Crimes Project
Leicester Hate Crimes Project The broad aims of the Leicester Hate Crime Project were to examine people’s experiences of hate, prejudice and targeted hostility understand the physical and emotional harms suffered by individuals and their families identify ways of improving the quality of support available to victims Five strands of victim identity (race, religion, disability, […]
Media freedom in Europe
Map of Media Freedom in Europe Index on Censorship and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso are joining forces to map the state of media freedom in Europe. This is being built using ushahidi system which allows users to submit reports of censorship abuse and reporting restrictions. Click on the map to view examples of recent reports […]
Global billionaires and political power
Global billionaires political power list New From the Brookings Institution and based on a forthcoming book by Darrell West, this is a ranking of political power exercised by the top 15 billionaires. The site also links to associated podcasts and papers explaining the methodology and the relationship between wealth and political power.
Feminism
The Fawcett Society launch new blog: Feminist Matters It will cover a range of topics from a feminist perspective. First topics covered are the labour party conference and its relevance to women. He for she campaign launched by the United Nations to campaign for gender equality launched by actor Emma Watson UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador. […]
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