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Direction of AI Innovation in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/direction-of-ai-innovation-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This report from Institute for Public Policy Research outlines the AI innovation landscape in the UK to determine which type of AI deployment is and is not currently taking place.
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Accountable Journalism site launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/accountable-journalism-site-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 New from the The Ethical Journalism Network and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute , University of Missouri.
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Hungarian revolution, 1956
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/30/hungarian-revolution-1956/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 30, 2017 Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People’s Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November...
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State of Bitcoin 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/16/state-of-bitcoin-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 16, 2015 The latest report from Coin Desk stated that in 2014 Bloomberg regarded Bitcoin as the worst performing currency.
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Suffrage exhibition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/07/suffrage-exhibition/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2018 The Women’s Hall at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives is the first major exhibition about the East London Federation of the Suffragettes (ELFS).
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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.
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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.
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The Total Digital Access to the League of Nations Archives Project (LONTAD)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/23/the-total-digital-access-to-the-league-of-nations-archives-project-lontad/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 23, 2019 The ultimate aim of this exciting project is to create a digital archive of the League of Nations (1920-1946), the predecessor of the United Nations.
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Operational research resources for development
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/operational-research-resources-for-development/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) has created a Wikipedia-type page of free resources for development workers and developing countries to read and...
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Observatory of Algorithms with Social Impact
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/23/observatory-of-algorithms-with-social-impact/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2020 A listing from the Eticas Foundation which is indexing algorithms used by search engines and organisations and classifying them by type location and impact.