Andrew Dunn
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http://www.esrc.ac.uk/publications/multimedia/seven-days/?dm_i=XZA,S380,4OC413,2A2UK,1 New feature on the ESRC website. From 23rd April they will be posting videos text on their website reflecting the breadth of ESRC funded research based on the Monday’s child nursery rhyme. The first instalment fair of face has materials relating to image and identity. http://www.esrc.ac.uk/publications/multimedia/seven-days/monday.aspx
Women in Politics
http://www.iadb.org/research/geppal/index.cfm Spanish language site maintained by the Interamerican Bank and IDEA International, Geppal provides access to an online database with information about women’s political participation in Latin America. It contains the results of surveys from 94 political parties with tables for candidates and participation in party politics. Data collected between 15th January and the 15th October 2009. […]
Charitable giving
For research on charitable giving try these resources. Charities Aid foundation publishes UK giving https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2011-publications/uk-giving-2011.aspx Behaviour can also be compared in the World Giving index https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2011-publications/world-giving-index-2011.aspx Think tank New Philanthropy Capital: http://www.philanthropycapital.org/publications/publications_list.aspx provides free access to many of its reports discussing how charities can make themselves more effective. NCVO has commentary on UK charity policy […]
Technology and protest
Tell Dave protests: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/britains-web-monitoring-plan-draws-comparisons-to-1984-and-kafka/2012/04/02/gIQAbNB5qS_blog.html This month, to protest against new internet monitoring plans, twitter users utilised hashtag #TellDaveEverything. The protest took the form of listing mundane events that they thought they should tell the prime minister about to make the point that the new laws would ‘snoop into everything’. Coverage from CBC Canada captured examples. There […]
Technology and development
Global Information Technology report 2012: http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-information-technology# Reports on the extent to which 142 economies use ICT and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. See the rankings and essays which discuss the impact on working life. There is also a separate data platform http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-information-technology/gitr-2012-data-platform
Information on development
The African Capacity Building Foundation has a virtual library of documents on poverty reduction in Africa at: http://elibrary.acbfpact.org/ World Bank documents and data can be accessed in the Open Knowledge Repository at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/ CGIAR Virtual information centre http://vlibrary.cgiar.org/V?RN=512253939 Information from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research – a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in […]
Understanding Society Findings 2012
http://research.understandingsociety.org.uk/findings/findings-2012 Understanding Society contains headline findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. This offers data on 14 topic areas using results from approximately 100,000 individuals in 40,000 households, as well as young people aged 10-15. Topics include social support networks, housework and gender, risky behaviours of 10-15 year olds, population diversity, employment and racial discrimination, immigrants […]
US Presidential Elections in Cartoons
Cartoons from the Cartoonist Group including 2012 editorial cartoons from top us newspapers http://www.theeditorialcartoons.com/subject/6219/The-2012+Election-Editorial-Cartoons.php Washington post http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-best-cartoons-on-election-2012/2012/02/08/gIQAaNk61Q_gallery.html selection of the best so far. Finally some satire from the Onion http://www.theonion.com/section/politics/
US Elections and African Americans
The NAACP has declared that certain US states have introduced practices which are restricting black voting rights in the report Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in America. http://www.naacp.org/pages/defending-democracy See more about their campaign http://www.thisismyvote.org/ which is encouraging black political participation during the elections. The resources section has a collection of articles covering race […]
The World Bank Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean
http://sedlac.econo.unlp.edu.ar/eng/statistics.php Maintained by CEDLAS (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) http://cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/eng/ Specialisms include poverty, trade and finance, education and health and millennium development goals. Includes information from over 200 household surveys carried out in 25 countries: Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, […]
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