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 […]
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/
Nixon and Brezhnev
New volume of Foreign Relations of the United States published: http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v15
2012twit
http://2012twit.com/ A project which aims to provide real time coverage of the USA 2012 elections from Twitter. It looks at trending topics and recent tweets. There is also an interesting blog http://140elect.com/ with coverage of twitter tools and metrics. Currently it is covering controversy over the campaign to promote a minor candidate by retweeting. See […]
Syria
http://www.arableagueonline.org/ The official website of the Arab League has details on its English language version about its involvement in Syria. See the option on the left of the screen. This has news, protocols and information about its observer mission. Further details about the situation can be found on the United Nations website see its winds […]
Stream Congress and Capitol Words
http://streamcongress.com/chrome A tool from the Sunlight foundation that combines in one web based application Tweets, YouTube videos and floor updates from members of Congress, making them into a single customized news feed. Instructions given on the website. Note usage requires Google Chrome to be installed. Also relaunched by the same group Capitol words. http://capitolwords.org/ Get data […]
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