POOC in participatory media
Media@McGill’s Participatory, Open, Online Course (or “POOC”) on The Participatory Condition Addresses the history, problems and possibilities of participatory media in contemporary society. It was launched to coincide with Media@McGill’s international colloquium on The Participatory Condition, which took place in Montreal on November 15th and 16th, 2013 and also includes video content from this. There […]
World Giving Index
World Giving Index. Charities Aid Foundation launches latest annual report on charitable giving worldwide. They also manage the Future world giving website which provides free aces to articles which discuss charitable donations, philanthropy trends and motivations. Key issues is evidence on how policies implemented by governments around the world have helped or held back philanthropic […]
Two new Chinese Internet archives
…from the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, UCLA . Both capture snapshots of chinese websites periodically since 2012, preserving the content and can be searched by keyword. Shanghai Chronicles Local government Shanghai Chronicles is under the leadership of the Shanghai Municipal Government. Websites are captured regularly from 2012 onwards and searchable by keyword content. […]
Surveillance Industry Index
Privacy International Launches Surveillance Industry Index/Database This database includes information provided by WikiLeaks and Omega Research Foundation. It covers over 300 vendors in over 30 nations worldwide. Find out what technologies companies have developed to survey personal data and in many cases who it has been sold to. Each entry has trade brochures and links […]
International day to eliminate violence against women
International day to eliminate violence against women was on 25th November. The official UN website has broadcasts messages as well as links to United Nations resolutions and reports. The UN women website in-depth feature also has testimony and photos. UK government commitment to the day. United States government statements outlining USA policy
Chemical weapons
OPCW-UN Joint Mission Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations Joint Mission in Syria creates new website . It offers free access to the mandate of the mission, associated news stories, maps, UN resolutions and reports.
Rap music
Rapsats statistics on rap music A tool to plot the frequency of words appearing in rap lyrics from 1988 through to the present day see more on contributors. On a serious note it could give an idea of the use of gender and homophobic words by rap artists. The article on the blog has an […]
Youth (un)employment
EU youth prospects This week a major conference of EU leaders discussed youth unemployment in Europe see EU papers, news and report on youth employment in Europe Also on this theme a recent paper in the open access journal Demographic research Youth prospects in a time of economic recession IPPR has also published a report […]
Government at a glance
Government at a glance. The OECD publishes a report measuring government performance across the 34 member countries of the OECD. They include service provision and delivery. It has 50 indicators these can be read online in the book or downloaded into excel. Also useful in cross comparing government performance is the World Bank site this has […]
Women’s rights in the Arab world
Women’s rights in the Arab world. Thomson Reuters Foundation has published its third annual poll of gender experts, focusing on women’s rights in Arab League states. It used over 300 experts to review assess the extent to which states adhered to key provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). […]
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