Andrew Dunn
Subscribe to Andrew Dunn's postsThe Ill-Treatment and Torture Project
http://www.politicalscience.uncc.edu/cconra16/UNCC/ITT_Data_Collection.html Based at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the ITT has just released the four country-year datasets relating to allegations of torture by state regimes. The data measures allegations of states’ violations of the Convention Against Torture published by Amnesty International during the years 1995-2005. The data and User’s Guide are available here: http://www.politicalscience.uncc.edu/cconra16/UNCC/Data.html. […]
Meta-Activism Project
http://www.meta-activism.org/ The Meta-Activism Project (MAP) is a non-traditional think tank that uses digital networks to better understand their effects on social power. It is staffed by volunteers. Its website provides free access to its book and other case studies that cover ways in which citizens around the world are using digital technologies to push for […]
European Film Gateway
http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/ Offers free access to about 400,000 digital videos, photos, film posters and text materials from 16 leading archives; these include: Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF e.V. (Frankfurt) and La Cinémathèque française (Paris). Several themed collections are available. These include: Cinecittà Luce: La Settimana Incom Newsreel Collection 1946-1965.
World Bank Mobile Apps
http://publications.worldbank.org/index.php?main_page=page&id=16&cid=EXT_TwitterWBPubs_P_EXT The World Bank has launched a number of mobile apps which allow direct access to some of their free statistics. Key examples include: World Bank DataFinder app which lets you access 50 years of World Bank data on global economic indicators Doing Business at a Glance which draws on the data and information from […]
FRAGEN
http://www.fragen.nu/aletta/fragen Fragen (FRAmes on GENder) is an electronic library of full text feminist works published since the 1960s. It was the result of a pan-European digitization project; The Women’s Library was the UK project partner and joined 28 other women’s libraries, archives and organisations across Europe in choosing key titles of feminist theory. The site […]
Happiness research
This week the Office for National Statistics released the results of a public consultation on indicators which the British public feel should be used to measure happiness National Statistician’s Reflections on the National Debate on Measuring National Well-being: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/article.asp?id=2718 On the same theme: OECD better life index http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/ has created an interactive tool to allow […]
My Subject pages
Subject Rooms are changing their name to My Subject pages. They go live officially on August 15th with the new website, but yours are available now if you would like to have a look. Go to the new website (at the moment the address is http://www2.le.ac.uk/library ) choose My Subject (the tab the furthest right […]
Republic of South Sudan
The Republic of South Sudan has become the newest member of the United Nations. Read the official UN resolution at: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/65/L.84 The Government now has an official website: http://www.goss.org/ You can also find background information on the formation of the nation, including its referendum for secession, from the UN mission website: http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/unmis/referendum.shtml
ICM polls archive online (via The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/oct/21/icm-poll-data-labour-conservatives Voting intentions in UK elections since 1984 – (via the Guardian datablog).
Reporters Without Frontiers – Arab Revolt
http://en.rsf.org/the-arab-revolt.html Reporters without Frontiers has created a special section on their website to cover the recent Arab uprisings. It includes a focus on press censorship, eye witness accounts from local journalists and discussion and news stories about the use of new media. All also available are chronologies of events in Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Libya.
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