World Bank eAtlas of Gender
http://www.app.collinsindicate.com/worldbankatlas-gender/en Electronic interactive atlas which provides free access to facts and figures from the latest World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development. Map and export more than 80 indicators relating to gender and development studies. Topics include women and the economy, politics, health, education and society.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Search-the-Digital-Archives.aspx An open access archive that includes more than 200,000 pages, 300 reels of audio tape, 300 museum artifacts, 72 movie reels, and 1,500 photos. They include materials relating to his assassination, and Cuba Bay of Pigs incident. The latter includes documents and contemporary telephone recordings.
ecampaigning forum
http://www.ecampaigningforum.com/ An annual event where practitioners share advice and expertise on how to use social media in campaigning. The 2011 website http://ecflive.fairsay.com/ includes information and some presentations. Topics covered include practical case studies on campaigning from charities and lobby groups.
Future Gov Asia Pacific
http://www.futuregov.asia/pages/about/ Free online magazine serving public officials in Asia and the Middle East; includes news, events, blogs and articles on e-government and use of it by public sector. Subsections include cloud computing, e-government and use of IT by health organisations.
The Ill-Treatment and Torture Project
http://www.politicalscience.uncc.edu/cconra16/UNCC/ITT_Data_Collection.html Based at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the ITT has just released the four country-year datasets relating to allegations of torture by state regimes. The data measures allegations of states’ violations of the Convention Against Torture published by Amnesty International during the years 1995-2005. The data and User’s Guide are available here: http://www.politicalscience.uncc.edu/cconra16/UNCC/Data.html. […]
Meta-Activism Project
http://www.meta-activism.org/ The Meta-Activism Project (MAP) is a non-traditional think tank that uses digital networks to better understand their effects on social power. It is staffed by volunteers. Its website provides free access to its book and other case studies that cover ways in which citizens around the world are using digital technologies to push for […]
FRAGEN
http://www.fragen.nu/aletta/fragen Fragen (FRAmes on GENder) is an electronic library of full text feminist works published since the 1960s. It was the result of a pan-European digitization project; The Women’s Library was the UK project partner and joined 28 other women’s libraries, archives and organisations across Europe in choosing key titles of feminist theory. The site […]
Republic of South Sudan
The Republic of South Sudan has become the newest member of the United Nations. Read the official UN resolution at: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/65/L.84 The Government now has an official website: http://www.goss.org/ You can also find background information on the formation of the nation, including its referendum for secession, from the UN mission website: http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/unmis/referendum.shtml
ICM polls archive online (via The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/oct/21/icm-poll-data-labour-conservatives Voting intentions in UK elections since 1984 – (via the Guardian datablog).
Reporters Without Frontiers – Arab Revolt
http://en.rsf.org/the-arab-revolt.html Reporters without Frontiers has created a special section on their website to cover the recent Arab uprisings. It includes a focus on press censorship, eye witness accounts from local journalists and discussion and news stories about the use of new media. All also available are chronologies of events in Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Libya.
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