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PingER – how bad is the Internet in Africa?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/08/pinger-how-bad-is-the-internet-in-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2013 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.
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AFP e-diplomacy hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/19/afp-e-diplomacy-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 19, 2013 Find out about twitter and foreign policy.
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Mobile trends
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/30/mobile-trends/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 30, 2013 comScore has released its latest Mobile Future in Focus report for the US http://www.comscore.
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Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 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.
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Women in developing countries 9% less likely to have a bank account
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/women-in-developing-countries-9-less-likely-to-have-a-bank-account/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make...
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Social surveys
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/08/social-surveys/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 8, 2013 UK Data service variable and question bank. Contains a catalogue of questions asked by major British social surveys since the 1990s. Use to trace relevant surveys by topic.
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Enhanced access to data from International Telecommunications Union
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/16/enhanced-access-to-data-from-itu-international-telecommunications-union/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2012 http://www.itu.int/ The ITU collects data on mobile phones, internet use and access worldwide. Its website offers some free statistics.
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EU Screen…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/03/eu-screen-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2012 …launches some great new themed collections. http://www.euscreen.eu/exhibitions.html This EU funded project aims to digitise clips and programmes from major collections in Europe.
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National Archives timeline of foreign offices
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/03/national-archives-timeline-of-foreign-offices/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2012 http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.
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Tweeting #OWS
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/05/tweeting-ows/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2012 http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ A great new digital archive from Emory University. Ten million tweets about Occupy Wall Street have now been collected.