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The World Wealth and Income Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/the-world-wealth-income-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Launched in 2017 as a single point of access for statistics on global inequality data , t his great site is managed by an international consortium of economists including Thomas...
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The Global Conflict Risk Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/the-global-conflict-risk-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 This useful free source has been developed by the Joint Research Centre in cooperation with the Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Mediation Instruments Division...
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Human rights day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/human-rights-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 The United Nations observance of this day occurs every 10 th December. The official website has related resolutions and news for 2018.
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Syria digital security monitoring project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/19/syria-digital-security-monitoring-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 19, 2013 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.
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Syria
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/06/syria/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2012 http://www.arableagueonline.org/ The official website of the Arab League has details on its English language version about its involvement in Syria.
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Cartoon movement
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/17/cartoon-movement/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2012 http://www.cartoonmovement.
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Measuring financial inclusion: the Global Findex Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/14/measuring-financial-inclusion-the-global-findex-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 14, 2012 http://econ.worldbank.
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The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Data Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/07/the-international-aid-transparency-initiative-iati-data-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 7, 2012 http://www.iatiregistry.org/ The IATI Seeks to make data about Aid spending easier to use and understand. A list of the major organisations involved is on the website.
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Who uses social media?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/25/who-uses-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 25, 2013 The latest Pew report (covering the USA) provides a snapshot of the social democgraphics of Internet users by categories such as age, race, gender and income: http://www.pewinternet.
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Mapping digital Nigeria
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/03/mapping-digital-nigeria/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2012 http://www.soros.org/reports/mapping-digital-media-nigeria A 96-page report from the Soros Foundation.