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Interesting development of the use of twitter by the committee. They asked the public to pick a question they would ask the Education Minister Michael Gove. http://twitter.com/#!/search/AskGove For more infromation see: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/education-committee/news/ask-gove-news/
Growth Commission
The London School of Economics has set up a Growth Commission which aims to provide contributions to the formulation and implementation of a long-term growth strategy the UK. It will run for a year from January 23rd 2012. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/LSEGrowthCommission/
DevInfo India
http://devinfo.info/devinfoindia/ Useful graphic display of statistical data from the Indian government which has been developed using figures from various government ministries. It includes useful state profiles http://www.devinfolive.info/devinfoindia/profiles/ It is a useful supplement to the Ministry of Information website http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx which has a full data catalogue plus free access to some reports. Another good source of data […]
Nixon and Brezhnev
New volume of Foreign Relations of the United States published: http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v15
2012twit
http://2012twit.com/ A project which aims to provide real time coverage of the USA 2012 elections from Twitter. It looks at trending topics and recent tweets. There is also an interesting blog http://140elect.com/ with coverage of twitter tools and metrics. Currently it is covering controversy over the campaign to promote a minor candidate by retweeting. See […]
India Real Time
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/ Useful readable blog with contributions from staff at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones newswire reporters. A heavy emphasis upon the economy, industry and financial markets. However also coverage of social trends including the Bollywood entertainment industry.
Syria
http://www.arableagueonline.org/ The official website of the Arab League has details on its English language version about its involvement in Syria. See the option on the left of the screen. This has news, protocols and information about its observer mission. Further details about the situation can be found on the United Nations website see its winds […]
Stream Congress and Capitol Words
http://streamcongress.com/chrome A tool from the Sunlight foundation that combines in one web based application Tweets, YouTube videos and floor updates from members of Congress, making them into a single customized news feed. Instructions given on the website. Note usage requires Google Chrome to be installed. Also relaunched by the same group Capitol words. http://capitolwords.org/ Get data […]
US elections and politics pages from Google
http://google.com/elections/ed/us/results Useful for tracking progress in the 2012 presidential race! Includes the 2012 political calendar from pbs http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2012/calendar.html For a handy calendar of forthcoming events see the National Association of Secretaries of State website which has a 2012 Presidential Primary/Caucus Calendar and presidential primaries guides. http://www.nass.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=284&Itemid=439
Research from South Asia
http://www.esocialsciences.com/blog/index.asp A social sciences portal produced by south Asian scholars to promote research from India and the South Asian continent. Free registration required to access some aspects. Include links to events, working papers, and a good starting point for finding materials. Other useful sites relating to India include: Vidyanidhi, E-scholarship portal and Digital library which […]
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