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International Women’s Day: 8th March
This year’s UN International Women’s Day focuses on ending violence against women. The song One Woman is released today to help laucnh the campaign. Hear it here: http://song.unwomen.org/
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PingER – how bad is the Internet in Africa?
The PingER (Ping End-to-end Reporting) Internet End-to-end Performance Measurement (IEPM) project monitors performance of Internet links from over 700 sites in 160 nations. It is currently using...
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Google public alerts
http://www.google.org/crisisresponse/publicalerts/ Google is now advertising public service crisis and disaster alerts. This includes coverage of Japan where it is being used for earthquake warnings:...
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Google Reader
Plans to discontinue Google Reader (the RSS feed reader) have been announced. Articles on this available here http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/14/google-reader-rss-retired and...
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MyWorld Survey
A major global survey for citizens launched by the United Nations and partners. It asks respondents to prioritise six out of sixteen possible issues in order to gather data about values to inform...
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Sisterhood and After
http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/sisterhood/about.html A website from the British Library developed in association with Sussex University and the Women’s library. It Covers the oral history of the...
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Open UNDP
http://open.undp.org/ New open data website from the United Nations Development Programme. Get official data on over 6,000 development projects in 177 countries worldwide. It includes data on...
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Ageing in the UK
A new report is available from The House of Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change...
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Human Trafficking
A new report from the Centre for Social Justice http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/publications - It Happens Here: Equipping the United Kingdom to fight modern slavery – argues that the...
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Economy of Cyprus
Find some back ground data on the ongoing crisis. Get Euro area debt data from the ECB: http://www.ecb.int/stats/gov/html/dashboard.en.html The World Bank data site has many useful graphs on Cyprus...
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Opengendertracking project
A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.org/ includes...
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The Australian Women’s Weekly (1933 – 1982)
Freely available on National Australian web service, Trove: http://trove.nla.gov.au/aww This title has one of the largest circulations of popular women’s magazines in Australia. Its archive is of great...
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Political Lobbying and PR
Interesting report issued by open.secrets.org Center for Responsive Politics relating to the current extent and use of lobbying in American politics – Lobbyists 2012: Out of the Game or Under the...
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The Economics of Chocolate
The International Cocoa organization provides free access to basic statistics on prices see the monthly market reviews. It also has a section on the chocolate industry For trade try UNCTAD – there is a...
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Reminder: Kissinger documents
Recommended resources for research on Kissinger’s diplomacy include George Washington University National security archive which has made transcripts of declassified secret documents some free...
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UK Web Content to be archived
The Legal Deposit Libraries of the UK and Ireland are to archive UK web content for the benefit of future researchers. More information from the BBC...
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AFP e-diplomacy hub
Find out about twitter and foreign policy. Aims to offer a window on online diplomacy in action! Features of the site – a map of embassies on line with information about their level of activity. Also...
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Syria digital security monitoring project
http://syria.secdev.com/ Maintained by the SecDev Foundation, a Canadian not-for-profit organization. It aims to provide tools to encourage digital openness in Syria. In addition to links to resources...
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Female FTSE report 2013
Acces the latest annual review of the number of women board members at the UK’s leading FTSE companies. From the Cranfield University website. Past issues from 2005 onwards are also available for...
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Citizen journalism websites
Guardian Witness https://witness.guardian.co.uk/ A new site for citizens to share news photos and views. There will be an assignments section where editors will issue call outs for copy on specific...
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