Enhanced access to data from International Telecommunications Union
http://www.itu.int/ The ITU collects data on mobile phones, internet use and access worldwide. Its website offers some free statistics. These can now be mapped more effectively using Google data explorer http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/explorer/index.html Explore and visualize key ICT indicators from 1960 to 2011 for about 200 economies worldwide by creating line graphs, bar graphs, maps and bubble charts.
World Cities Culture Report 2012
http://www.worldcitiesculturereport.com/ Produced by the Mayor of London; the biggest international survey of its kind. It has collected an unprecedented amount of data on the scope and impact of the cultural assets and activities that are produced and consumed in 12 major cities: Berlin, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Mumbai, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney […]
RTE Archive
http://www.rte.ie/archives/ The Irish broadcaster provides access to both still and moving images which could have importance for historians of Irish political, social and cultural history of the 20th century. There are a number of themed exhibitions These include coverage of the elections from 1965 onwards http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/688-elections/ Emigration in Irish history http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1030-emigration-once-again/ Items are being gradually added to the […]
The Africa Desk
http://www.africadesk.ac.uk/ A new portal designed for African studies scholars. Created by the Africa Desk is collaboration between the British Academy and the African Studies Association of the UK, with support from The Association of Commonwealth Universities and SCOLMA. It will provide free access to the latest edition of the ASAUK Directory of Africanists in Britain, […]
International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulation (IFABC)
http://ifabc.org/data/country-specific-circulation-data The association for auditors ABC and BPA around the world, has launched a free online database that provides headline circulation data for newspapers from 34 countries for the first time. This contains circulation data for key national newspapers for the last couple of years, allowing broad trends in circulation to be tracked. The website […]
Gender equality data
World Bank: http://datatopics.worldbank.org/gender/ United Nations Commission for Europe statistics database: section on men and women in Europe http://www.unece.org/stats/gender/database.htm Social Institutions and Gender Index measure of gender discrimination in 102 non-OECD nations. Covers civil liberties, family and ownership rights: http://genderindex.org/ Gender and Land rights database – free access to information from the FAO: http://www.fao.org/gender/landrights IPU (Interparliamentary […]
Ready to research
http://www.readytoresearch.ac.uk/ Great site created by the Open University, in partnership with the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester, and Manchester Information and Associated Service as part of the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) project. It aims to provide a portal to free OER resources for research students with an emphasis on students new to […]
Chicago History Museum online collection
http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/ Useful for social historians of fashion and great fund to look at! With over 50,000 costumes and textile artifacts from the mid-18th century to the present, the Chicago History Museum’s Costume Collection is the second largest in the world and one of the nation’s most complete fashion repositories. Its online website provides free access […]
How far will technology companies go in helping repressive regimes
http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Corporate_Responsibility_070512.pdf Interesting report on corporate responsibility from pew Internet and American Life and Elon University. Based on over 1,000 response from executives to questions relating to the issue ‘how will technology firms around the world operate when they are confronted by situations in which optimal product sales and profits can be made only when they […]
Learn to Communicate with Crisis-Affected Communities
http://infoasaid.org/e-learning/course/start Infoasaid Launches E-Learning Course on Humanitarian Communication a new, free online learning course. Communication is Aid, aims to raise awareness and build basic skills for communicating effectively with crisis-affected communities, before and after an emergency breaks. Topics covered include crafting messages. Useful example of how social media can be used for crisis communication.
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