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• Digital Verification Corps

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/19/digital-verification-corps/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 19, 2021 The Digital Verification Corps  is a network of volunteers from 6 universities worldwide trained to verify social media videos and photos of potential human rights violations.

• Which jobs are at risk from AI automation?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/which-jobs-are-at-risk-from-ai-automation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 A report from Nesta, Mapping Career Causeways: Supporting workers at risk , looks at jobs at risk from AI and how workers can transition to similar posts which are less precarious.

• Results UN

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/02/23/results-un/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2021 A new website from The Office of Programme Planning and Finance Budget (OPPFB) and the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) of the United Nations.

• #ColorOurCollections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/10/colorourcollections/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2021 For women’s history month, Europeana has released a great new colouring book about women in history with images from Europe’s greatest library and heritage collections.

• Gravity Assist

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/10/gravity-assist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2021 A new report from the The Office for Students’ considering usage of online technology for teaching and learning during the pandemic and its future .

• Memory Lane

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/10/memory-lane/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2021 Free access to an archive of millions of photos taken as far back as 1878. Some original black and white have been recoloured.

• UNCTAD COVID-19 Response Portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/unctad-covid-19-response-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 United Nations Conference on trade and development has launched a new portal with data on the impact of Covid-19 on manufacturing, trade and foreign direct investment. It has 25 indicators.

• The U.S. Media Index database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/24/the-u-s-media-index-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2021 F ind out who owns what . Compiled by the Future of Media Project the index details the 176 parent companies of daily news outlets.

• Afrobarometer SDG Scorecard series

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/afrobarometer-sdg-scorecard-series/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 Launched recently by the Afrobarometer public opinion polls,  the scorecard series allows African citizens in individual nations to score their own country on how well they think it...

• Social media in peace mediation: a practical framework

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/social-media-in-peace-mediation-a-practical-framework/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 A new paper by UN DPPA Mediation Support Unit and Swiss Peace which explores the role of social media in armed conflict.