The UK Data Service is providing the following webinars in May and June: Key issues in reusing data, 4 May 2016, 15.00 – 16.00 The UK Census Longitudinal datasets, 6 May 2016, 14.00 – 15.00 Data management basics, 12 May 2016, 15.00 – 16.00 Webinar: What are APIs?, 26 May 2016, 15.00 – 16.00 Webinar: What is MongoDB?, […]
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
Diversity in HE. Or not…
Lies, damned lies and statistics on widening access to Russell Group universities Interesting article in the latest issue of Radical Statistic by Vikki Boliver which criticises the Russell Group Opening Doors report arguing that it is an illusion that the number of students from ‘diverse backgrounds’ has increased. Arguments are made on the basis of […]
2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Just Published by U.S. State Department this annual report which gives a world overview of trends and individual country reports. Sections include civil liberties, worker’s rights and discrimination. Interesting to compare with Freedom House annual Freedom in the World Ranking. Hurisearch – the human rights search engine is good for locating recent documents. It indexes […]
World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016
Just released by the World Bank this major dataset which has over 800 indicators covering more than 150 economies. It has extensive data tables and a sustainable development goals dashboard . New this year – the world bank is phasing out the usage of the terms ‘developing countries’ and ‘developed world’ and moving towards more […]
Aid data
Financial tracking service United Nations UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA). maintains a site containing humanitarian contribution data relating to specific crises. It measures aid from from donor governments and recipient agencies as well as information on specific pledges carried in the media, on donor websites, or quoted in pledging conferences. The […]
Urban Africa RISK website
The Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) website has been launched to provide information and community resources for a three-year programme, funded by the UK Department for International Development and the Economic and Social Research Council, looking at urbanisation and disaster risk reduction in African cities. It has case studies on resilience management. The project is focusing in depth on four […]
Refugees Deeply
Independent digital media journalism site which aims to cover the refugee crisis indepth. Other independent journalism sites on this topic which are worth checking. Migrants Files An award winning data journalism website coordinated by Journalism ++ with input from 15 nations. It aims to offer data driven stories about the migrant crisis in Europe to […]
Cybervault- How is the US government involved in cyberhacking/ defence and war?
National Security Archive based at George Washington University has just launched this new specialist site to reveal and monitor the activities of the US government concerning cyberspace. This includes hacking, monitoring, defence and cyberwarfare. Access the text of several hundred documents, many released through Freedom of Information requests. See the launch blog posting for details […]
Government launches new EU Referendum website
See the new site which has provoked such a controversy. It includes the leaflet recommending remaining in the EU.
African Integrity Indicators Launched
The 2016 indicators have recently been released by Global Integrity. They cover rule of law, accountability, elections, public management, civil service integrity, access to information and openness. It is possible to se country files and view the methodology. Other useful indicators on this topic include: The Ibrahim Index of African Governance which is up to […]
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