The World Economic Forum has launched an information technology website which enables users to view charts by country of internet users, network infrastructure, and mobile phone subscriptions. Access it here: http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-information-technology/the-great-transformation/dashboard Read its global Information technology report 2010-2011 on the website: http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-information-technology
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
ICON – International Coalition on Newspapers
http://icon.crl.edu/about.htm A consortium of member libraries (mainly USA based who are seeking to preserve and improved access to newspapers worldwide). Useful features include a database of bibliographic information about newspapers published worldwide, http://icon.crl.edu/database.php which includes holdings information for North American libraries, and an excellent register/directory of links to historic newspaper digitisation projects worldwide: http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm
Discourse Analysis.net
http://www.discourseanalysis.net – a research portal in discourse. A useful international online forum which lists events, useful articles and texts. Free registration required. Links to major French and German networks on the topic.
Crisis Commons
http://crisiscommons.org/about/ Crisis Commons is a network of individuals and community groups who explore how new technology can help with communication during humanitarian crises. The website provides background information, plus free access to reports from conferences and events.
Digital Education Research Archive (DERA)
http://dera.ioe.ac.uk DERA is a digital archive of documents published electronically by government and related bodies in the area of education. It is created as a permanent web archive by staff of the Institute of Education Library. Currently over 1,000 documents and reports are accessible, with more being added. Topics covered are broad ranging include schools, learning, […]
Churnalism
http://churnalism.com/ An interesting initiative by the media standards trust which aims to give the public information to distinguish between original work and churnalism – the latter is defined as simple press releases which have been presented as if they are examples of original journalism. At the moment the site covers articles from the covers the […]
UK Council for International Student Affairs
The UK Council for International Student Affairs website http://www.ukcisa.org.uk provides access to a useful collection of factsheets covering basic questions asked by international students. Topics include regulations, finance and support services.
Humanitarian Response Index
http://daraint.org/humanitarian-response-index/?phpMyAdmin=15c4ce8dfebt3948e8dfr8ab8 This was created by a specialist evaluation organisation, Development Assistance Research Associates, in 2007. The index ranks the performance of the 22 donor countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee plus the European Commission in funding and supporting humanitarian action. It also presents case study assessments of aid responses in different crises. The main DARA website […]
Police.uk
http://www.police.uk/ The much hyped crimes maps of the UK website which was launched this week. Free access is given to street level crime maps and data for your local area, searchable by postcode. Statistics are grouped under the following headings: burglary, robbery, vehicle crime, violence, other crime and anti-social behaviour. They are compiled from data […]
Liberation Technology
A research programme based at Stanford University which is exploring how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods. Access at: http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/ Currently, its Twitter channel http://twitter.com/Liberationtech has some excellent links to sites being used by protestors in […]
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