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• Examining UK government performance

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/examining-uk-government-performance/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Just released from the Institute for Government the Annual Whitehall Monitor 2015 .

• Where is the world’s happiest country?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report .  It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.

• Photographs of the Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry 1946 (US)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/photographs-of-the-medical-survey-of-the-bituminous-coal-industry-1946-us/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 New from the USA National Archives thousands of photographs of mining industry and regions taken in USA in 1946 as part of a survey of conditions In 1946 the Department of Interior...

• Facebook launches Notify News App

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/facebook-launches-notify-news-app/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 As a dedicated app for iOS, it’s designed to be a central hub for alerts from a variety of partners, including BuzzFeed, CNN, Washington Post, Vogue and the Weather Channel.

• Refugee use of mobile phones

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/refugee-use-of-mobile-phones/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 T he Open University has released a research report on how refugees use smartphones.   It was led by Prof. Marie Gillespie and was carried out in partnership with France Medias Monde.

• The State of Broadband 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/the-state-of-broadband-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 Latest annual report from  (ITU/ UNESCO) Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development shows that 57% of the world have no broadband access.

• Digital Exclusion

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/digital-exclusion/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 Digital Exclusion Heatmap Get data on the extent and nature of digital exclusion in the today using this handy map from charity Go On.

• Flood data portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/flood-data-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 New from UNOSAT download satellite-derived flood data in GIS vector format from the United Nations.

• USA 2016 elections: New York Times Resource

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/usa-2016-elections-new-york-times-resource/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 Good use of technology from the New York Times: its Election 2016 bot can send users live news updates.

• Women on Boards

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/women-on-boards-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 Latest 5 year progress summary from Lord Davies shows progress. Get the full data plus previous reports from the UK government website.