Use of technology
2012 Cisco Connected World Technology Report (CCWTR)http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns1120/index.html#~2012 Covers Generation Y 18-30 use of technology includes infographics on online friendship,...
View ArticleNet Children Go Mobile Project
http://www.netchildrengomobile.eu/ A new project funded by the Safer Internet Programme of the European Commission has been launched. It will study data on children and the mobile internet in Denmark,...
View ArticleTwitter transparency
https://transparency.twitter.com/information-requests An official site set up by Twitter reports on how many requests they have had from governments for removal of information and account details. It...
View ArticleGlobal voices advocacy
A report on the internet firewall in China. Surveys the 2013 battle between Chinese netizens and China’s Great Firewall:...
View ArticleWho uses social media?
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:...
View ArticleJournalists in danger
A Day Without News http://adaywithoutnews.com/ Grassroots campaign with UN support to highlight the growing numbers of journalists who have been killed and injured in armed conflict. The website has a...
View ArticlePingER – how bad is the Internet in Africa?
The PingER (Ping End-to-end Reporting) Internet End-to-end Performance Measurement (IEPM) project monitors performance of Internet links from over 700 sites in 160 nations. It is currently using...
View ArticleGoogle public alerts
http://www.google.org/crisisresponse/publicalerts/ Google is now advertising public service crisis and disaster alerts. This includes coverage of Japan where it is being used for earthquake warnings:...
View ArticleGoogle Reader
Plans to discontinue Google Reader (the RSS feed reader) have been announced. Articles on this available here http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/14/google-reader-rss-retired and...
View ArticleAFP e-diplomacy hub
Find out about twitter and foreign policy. Aims to offer a window on online diplomacy in action! Features of the site – a map of embassies on line with information about their level of activity. Also...
View ArticleSyria digital security monitoring project
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. In addition to links to resources...
View ArticleCitizen journalism websites
Guardian Witness https://witness.guardian.co.uk/ A new site for citizens to share news photos and views. There will be an assignments section where editors will issue call outs for copy on specific...
View ArticleGlobal information technology report 2013
Global information technology report Released by World Economic Forum, this report includes Networked Readiness Index Rankings, country data profiles and Case Studies of ICT being used for...
View ArticleHumanitarian crises app
New United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Humanitarian Kiosk iOS app A new application for geting the latest news direct from the UN about humanitarian crises and...
View ArticleMobile trends
comScore has released its latest Mobile Future in Focus report for the US http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Presentations_and_Whitepapers/2013/2013_Mobile_Future_in_Focus Quick summary of the contents...
View ArticlePolitwoops and other Twitter-related sites
Politwoops: (deleted tweets from politicians) enables keyword searching for deleted tweets. It is offered in a number of countries. Each entry gives the amount of time before tweet was deleted....
View ArticleWorld Press Freedom Day…
…was celebrated on the 3rd May The official website has details of this year’s events, messages and full text UN documents associated with freedom of speech. The associated UNESCO website also has a...
View ArticleInnovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections
The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This used crowd sourced technology. View the online map for...
View ArticleUNESCO Open Access Publications
UNESCO publications on open access Get free access to high quality publications from UNESCO which has a agreed a new open access policy. Starting from July 2013, hundreds of downloadable digital UNESCO...
View ArticleMedia Use in the Middle East
…from Northwestern University in Qatar http://menamediasurvey.northwestern.edu/ Major 8 nation survey on media use. Reveals that Arab citizens afraid to express themselves online and also gives...
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