Women will take 118 years to achieve equality
According to the World Economic Forum Global Gender report which ranks over 140 economies on health, economic, political and education factors. The site has 10 years worth of data so it enables tracking of progress over the last decade. Methodology is provided.
Facebook launches Notify News App
As a dedicated app for iOS, it’s designed to be a central hub for alerts from a variety of partners, including BuzzFeed, CNN, Washington Post, Vogue and the Weather Channel. (Time Inc, which owns Fortune, is also a partner in the new app.) See the Facebook blog for an introduction More information is at http://notify.co/ […]
Paris attacks
News reports Two useful sites which aggregate reports from other sources 24/7 News Now covers more than 40,000 sources. Country indicated by national flag next to the headline. EMM lists top stories has lists of sources in the left For a broader picture on trends see the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) University of Maryland containing […]
Eurobarometer site upgrade
European Commission has recently revamped the Eurobarometer website. If you have not visited it before Eurobarometer is a great place for tracing free high quality cross-national comparative surveys of citizens from European nations. The first survey was held in 1974 and focused upon inflation. It is possible to download all the surveys and their accompanying […]
Malala
Released this week, He Named me Mala, the inspirational documentary on the young Nobel prize winner See her historic speech to the United Nations on their YouTube channel also available are films of C-Span appearances. Times Documentary 2012 Class dismissed which featured her school. And read her 2009 blog.
Fuel poverty and cold homes
Fuel Poverty and Cold homes is worse in Britain than in other European nations according to a ranking by the Association for the Conservation of Energy. It provides analysis of energy prices and the quality of housing stock. The UK government website provides free access to official definitions of fuel poverty plus annual reports on its […]
Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD) online platform
…from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) University of Maryland. This provides an online mapping of the inter-relations (in person or online) between 50 key terrorist organisations since 1998. For instance see this entry on al-Qaeda Se also the Start global terrorism attacks database which has information and […]
Government Defence Anti-corruption Index
New from Transparency International an international ranking of governments worldwide whose defence policy expenditure is at high risk from corruption. It measures lack of accountability and possibly supply of weapons from / to ISIS. Topics covered include: legislative scrutiny of defence policy and legislation of procurement. A detailed methodology is provided.
Cuts and austerity
What do the British public think of the cuts and austerity policy? Latest research from IPSO Mori shows 43% think public services are worse than 5 years ago but only 23% say they have been directly effected by spending cuts down from over 33% in 2012.
Hansard Corpus
Website containing nearly every speech in the British Parliament 1803-2005 with some linguistic analysis. Developed by the University of Glasgow. http://www.hansard-corpus.org/
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