http://neweconomics.org/ Aims to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environmental and social issues.
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
Cartoon movement
http://www.cartoonmovement.com/ Cartoon Movement is a community of international editorial cartoonists and fans of political satire originally set up by set up by Tjeerd Royaards, a Dutch editorial cartoonist. It seeks to promote examples of good political and satirical cartoons. Browse the online gallery. They include political cartoons with recent examples relating to Syria. the environment […]
European Forum of Official Gazettes
http://circa.europa.eu/irc/opoce/ojf/info/data/prod/html/index.htm Created in 2004 by the organisations responsible for publishing the official gazettes of the European Union Member States and the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. Official gazettes are often excellent sources of information from national governments including legal announcements, notification and texts of bills, excellent directory of information on official journals […]
ePractice.eu
http://www.epractice.eu/en/about A portal created by the European Commission which aims to offer in a single point news, case studies, leaflets and advice for the professional community of eGovernment, inclusion and eHealth practitioners. It is therefore very good for keeping up to date with the latest egovernment news and projects in Europe. Set up rss feeds […]
UNESCO’s inaugural World Radio Day.
Held on 13th February. Find general statements and news on the website: http://www.worldradioday.org/ It sought to raise awareness about the power of radio as a tool for education, culture and development. Frontline SMS radio was involved in events. It also has a useful blog discussing the potential uses of SMS by radio stations to interact […]
Anti-racism sites
Measuring anti-Muslim Attacks Project, (MAMA Project): http://tellmamauk.org/ Faith Matters, a not for profit organisation founded in 2005 which works to reduce extremism and interfaith and intra-faith tensions: http://faith-matters.org/ Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading race equality think-tank: http://www.runnymedetrust.org/ Institute of Race Relations. The IRR is at the cutting edge of the research and analysis that inform […]
Voter behaviour and the Internet
How the internet is changing voter behaviour; see this recent Google blog post: http://googlepolitics.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-poll-how-web-is-connecting-voters.html
US election sites
Pew Forum on Religion and Public life now has a site with news and comment on the role of religion in the 2012 presidential election: http://projects.pewforum.org/rp2012/ Who’s donating to super PACs? Part of the Money and Politics data center from California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting: http://californiawatch.org/data/see-whos-donating-super-pacs
RSS feed from UN
Get the RSS feed from the U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library http://un-library.tumblr.com/rss It is an excellent current awareness source for highlighting the latest United Nations documents.
EUScreen
Free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today. http://www.euscreen.eu/
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