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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,...

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Net 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,...

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Twitter 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...

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Global voices advocacy

A report on the internet firewall in China. Surveys the 2013 battle between Chinese netizens and China’s Great Firewall:...

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Who 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:...

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Journalists 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...

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PingER – 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...

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Google 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:...

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Google 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...

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AFP 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...

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Syria 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...

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Citizen 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...

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Global 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...

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Humanitarian 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...

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Mobile 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...

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Politwoops 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....

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World 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...

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Innovative 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...

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UNESCO 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...

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Media 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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