Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Twitter
Foreign Policy magazine Release their annual list of top 100 key people to follow on Twitter See the full list that includes politicians, diplomats and key political thinkers. Also useful on this AFP e-diplomacy hub Maintained by French news agency Agence France-Presse. Find out about twitter and foreign policy. Aims to offer a window on […]
Social Media – recent findings
Eurobarometer survey – e communications households What do households in EU nations think of their broadband speed, quality of service and tariffs for internet use. Latest public opinion poll from Eurobarometer. The role of social media in the Arab uprising The latest issue of free online journals Westminster papers in communication and culture Vol 9 […]
Tweeting
Twitter transparency report Latest update on official requests for information and take down from governments to Twitter. For monitoring of internet by governments try the Herdict site from Berkman Institute. It has crowd sourced, examples of blockages and possible censorship. For a different kind of tweet, Radio 4 tweet of the day – listen to […]
Bloomberg: Facebook Earnings Estimates
Facebook reported their earnings on 24 July and analysts’ forecasts diverge due to their outlook for future mobile advertising revenue growth. Bloomberg’s Investor Relations dashboard shows almost half of the analysts covering Facebook are trailing the EPS consensus forecast for the second quarter. You will find the case study document under the function FFM on […]
Media Use in the Middle East
…from Northwestern University in Qatar http://menamediasurvey.northwestern.edu/ Major 8 nation survey on media use. Reveals that Arab citizens afraid to express themselves online and also gives detailed data on type and quantity of media use. Key countries covered are: Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and United Arab Emirates. Of over 10,000 people surveyed […]
R-shief: tracking Arab public opinion
The new website is currently under development. It aggregates data from social media – Facebook, Twitter etc. to track public opinion from the Arab world. For more information see http://tech.state.gov/group/r-shief
New online app for reporting sexual violence in Brazil
Innovative use of new technology by UNICEF and UN-Habitat: a website which also works as a smartphone app that brings together information on support services for women and girls who are survivors of violence. This is a big problem in the region. Data from the Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat for Public Security’s “Women’s Dossier […]
Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections
The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This used crowd sourced technology. View the online map for reported instances.
Politwoops and other Twitter-related sites
Politwoops: (deleted tweets from politicians) enables keyword searching for deleted tweets. It is offered in a number of countries. Each entry gives the amount of time before tweet was deleted. Sometimes the cause is a spelling mistake but in other cases to remove errors or other changes. See UK MPs deleted tweets: http://www.politwoops.co.uk/ and the US […]
Global information technology report 2013
Global information technology report Released by World Economic Forum, this report includes Networked Readiness Index Rankings, country data profiles and Case Studies of ICT being used for competitiveness and well-being. Other useful sites for world rankings of ICT are the ITU’s Measuring the Information Society report. This annual report enables benchmarking of development to take place. It […]
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