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Social Sciences Directory
http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir/information/readers First issue of new web-based open-access publishing platform, aimed at the global academic research and higher education...
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Al Jazeera Archive
http://cc.aljazeera.net/ Free access to video footage released by news service Al Jazeera under various Creative Commons licenses. Featured collections include protests in Gaza, events in Tunisia and...
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Sandy: Crisis response
Crisis Response maps from Google: http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy marks disaster areas. Also highlights local emergency twitter feeds. Separate maps for the whole of the USA and NYC are...
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Jeanette Winterson, tax, libraries and Starbucks, Google and Amazon!
The author Jeanette Winterson delivered the inaugural Reading Agency lecture at the British Library on 19th November. In it she argued that the government should charge Starbucks tax to save...
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Flooding
The Global Risk data platform is a multiple agencies (partners include UNEP) effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards this includes floods, cyclones, earthquakes,...
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Syria’s internet blackout
Google launches speak to tweet service because of Syria’s internet blackout, a good example of the use of social media to provide crisis communications. Go to the site for examples of messages left.
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Aid Worker Security database
https://aidworkersecurity.org/ Produced by the Humanitarian Outcomes, a team of specialist consultants, this database provides statistics on violence against aid workers. Reports are from 1997 onwards....
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Graduates and earnings
Postgraduates earn more than other graduates according to a report from the Sutton Trust, Postgraduate Premium: Revisiting Trends in Social Mobility and Educational Inequalities in Britain and America....
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Access to Middle East and Islamic resources
http://amirmideast.blogspot.co.uk/ Useful blog highlighting open access resources in this area. Journals covering all subject areas. Created by USA libraries. Find out the latest news about what you...
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Journalists in danger
A Day Without News http://adaywithoutnews.com/ Grassroots campaign with UN support to highlight the growing numbers of journalists who have been killed and injured in armed conflict. The website has a...
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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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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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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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Humanitarian crises app
New United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Humanitarian Kiosk iOS app A new application for geting the latest news direct from the UN about humanitarian crises and...
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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...
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Sweatshops
Following the recent tragedy in Bangladesh- would you pay more for ethical production? Depressingly, a Huff/Post YouGov poll of American shoppers found little awareness about the incident or sources of...
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UN and other peacekeeping sites
Useful UN materials include Official twitter account for the latest news. Past missions with a timeline of past missions. A page on women in peacekeeping - which has statements and statistics Other...
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Global corruption data
Find information on the extent of government and political corruption worldwide using the latest annual report from Transparency International: http://www.transparency.org/gcb2013 Transparency...
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