Flooding
The Global Risk data platform is a multiple agencies (partners include UNEP) effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards this includes floods, cyclones, earthquakes, graphs chart economic and mortality risk. See also UNISDR disaster risk reduction. International Flood network for newsletters and alerts worldwide. Sites on the recent UK floods: […]
16 days of action to eliminate violence against women
From the 25th November to 10th December activists across the world are taking part in the 16 days of action against gender violence as part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This UN day has its own website with campaign materials. It also marks the beginning of the 16 Days of […]
Leveson inquiry
LSE Media Policy Project is analysing reaction. Look at their blog for academic discussion: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2012/11/27/how-will-the-press-cover-leveson/ They also have a special live Polis Leveson Blog: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polislevesonblog/
Jeanette Winterson, tax, libraries and Starbucks, Google and Amazon!
The author Jeanette Winterson delivered the inaugural Reading Agency lecture at the British Library on 19th November. In it she argued that the government should charge Starbucks tax to save libraries. Read more about it on the Reading Agency website http://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/jeanette-winterson-delivers-the-inaugural-the-reading-agency-lecture.html and in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/19/amazon-starbucks-google-libraries-jeanette-winterson
Sandy: Crisis response
Crisis Response maps from Google: http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy marks disaster areas. Also highlights local emergency twitter feeds. Separate maps for the whole of the USA and NYC are available. They include geographical markers for different types of emergencies. Location tracking, including the current and forecasted paths were provided on the NOAA-National Hurricane Center national weather service. Search the […]
Al Jazeera Archive
http://cc.aljazeera.net/ Free access to video footage released by news service Al Jazeera under various Creative Commons licenses. Featured collections include protests in Gaza, events in Tunisia and the Arab spring protests in Egypt. It includes Arabic materials. See other recommeded free video sites, including historic and public information films on our recent posting for open […]
PSE: UK Poverty and social exclusion
http://www.poverty.ac.uk/ has just been re-launched, with a host of new features to improve access to the project data and findings. PSE: UK provides free access to definitions of poverty, the full text of In Poverty in the United Kingdom (1979), Peter Townsend and the latest research findings. Other key research groupson this topic include Centre for […]
Social Sciences Directory
http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir/information/readers First issue of new web-based open-access publishing platform, aimed at the global academic research and higher education market: http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir It aims to provide a peer reviewed collection of short articles and research papers, thereby increasing open access to scholarly publication See the publication and submission policies: http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir/about
Relaunched (with expanded content): Associated Press Archive
http://www.aparchive.com/ AP Archive is the film and video archive of the Associated Press The collection includes over 1.3 million global news and entertainment stories beginning in 1895 it also includes some materials from AP partners ABC News, TVAM, British Movietone and the Press Association. The site is fully searchable and there are compilations on themed […]
British Future
http://www.britishfuture.org/ British Future is a new independent, non-partisan think tank which is seeking to involve people in an open conversation, which addresses people’s hopes and fears about identity and integration, migration and opportunity. Its website lists events and news aimed at encouraging cohesiveness and has some case histories of individuals discussing what it means to be […]
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