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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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Internet Censorship
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/internet-censorship/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Blocked on Weibo Site maintained by Jason Ng Google Policy Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and author of Blocked on Weibo , discusses his work...
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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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Bloomberg: assessing the Greek recovery
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/14/bloomberg-assessing-the-greek-recovery/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2013 Data compiled from the European Commission show economic sentiment in Greece has risen from its low last June. Concerns that Greece may exit the euro have subsided.
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Bloomberg: US film revenues
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/14/bloomberg-us-film-revenues/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 14, 2013 Superhero blockbusters such as “Man of Steel” boosted movie sales in the second quarter after U.S. cinema takings declined during the past two years.
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Bloomberg: offshore yuan values
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/bloomberg-offshore-yuan-values/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The offshore yuan weakened on May 6 by the most since 2011 after Chinese regulators announced a probe of export data and new restrictions on loans.
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Longer lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.
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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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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.