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• Netflix research

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/25/netflix-research/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2018 Netflix have just launched their own official site where they will be posting white papers and articles on what they are researching. See the Netflix official blog for further details.

• Open Observatory of Network Interference: Tor Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/17/open-observatory-of-network-interference-tor-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2018 A free software, Global Observation Network, for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation on the internet.

• Women are not represented in Local Government

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/women-are-not-represented-in-local-government/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 According to the latest report issued by the Fawcett Society   The proportion of female councillors is still only 34%.

• Election Access Observation Toolkit

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/19/election-access-observation-toolkit/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 19, 2018 The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), along with the Disabled Person’s Organization (DPO) has developed an Election Access Observation Toolkit.

• Freedom on the Net report 2018 launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/freedom-on-the-net-report-2018-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 Freedom House has just launched its latest annual report on the state of democracy and freedom on the Internet.

• Global data hub on human trafficking

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/global-data-hub-on-human-trafficking/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative is the first global data hub on human trafficking publishing harmonized data from counter-trafficking organizations around the world.

• Observatory of killed journalists

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/16/observatory-of-killed-journalists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2018 New database from UNESCO. Shocki ngly  the The  Observatory  records 1,293 killings since 1993, including more than 80 recorded in 2018 .

• Digital Data Gender Divide

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/digital-data-gender-divide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Today worldwide 327 million fewer women than men have a smartphone and can access the mobile Internet.   This report from the OECD  considers what can be done.

• Oxfam launch land rights website

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/oxfam-launch-land-rights-website/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 Oxfam have now gathered together reports, news and indicators on all aspects of their work on land rights on a new website .

• UNESCO’s Internet Universality Indicators

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/unescos-internet-universality-indicators/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 This is based on 4 principles.