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Observatoire de l’Afrique

http://www.obsafrique.eu/  A network of European and African institutes and experts on peace and security issues in Africa. Partners include such high profile organisations as African Studies Centre...

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USA voting patterns new visualization

http://smpbff1.dsd.census.gov/TheDataWeb_HotReport/servlet/HotReportEngineServlet?reportid=767b1387bea22b8d3e8486924a69adcd&emailname=essb@boc&filename=0328_nata.hrml A series of graphs taken...

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RTE Archive

http://www.rte.ie/archives/ The Irish broadcaster provides access to both still and moving images which could have importance for historians of Irish political, social and cultural history of the 20th...

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Watching Syria’s war: New York Times project

http://projects.nytimes.com/watching-syrias-war is focusing on videos and films from Syria uploaded to the Internet during the conflict. It is examining the sources and claims made about them by...

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American Presidential Nominations

The American presidency project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/nomination.php has a database of presidential nomination acceptance speeches from 1880 onwards.  Recent ones include YouTube videos....

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TV News Search Borrow

http://archive.org/details/tv Internet Archive site. This service is designed to help USA citizens better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search...

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Presidential debates

See video footage and transcripts from the official Commission on presidential debates: http://www.debates.org/ There is a historical section with information on debates from 1858 onwards, in addition...

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Cuban Missile Crisis: 50 years

To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.archives.gov/nae/visit/gallery.html “To the Brink” is a new exhibit at the National Archives that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the...

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American presidency and social media

 http://techpresident.com/news/23104/help-digital-infrastructure-obama-wins-re-election  TechPresident has a good review of the role of social media in the election. Mashable has a good compilation of...

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World e-Parliament Report 2012

http://www.ictparliament.org/WePReport2012  Prepared by the Global Centre for ICT, the report covers the following topics: Developments in ICT and parliaments since 2010; Communication and engagement...

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Syria’s internet blackout

Google launches speak to tweet service because of Syria’s internet blackout, a good example of the use of social media to provide crisis communications. Go to the site for examples of messages left.

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The Right to be Heard Framework: A learning companion

An online guide from Oxfam intended for development workers.  The right to be heard framework aims to help poor people be heard by politicians. It includes case studies from civil society on how to...

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True of false?

The Washington Post has produced a checking program, Truth Teller, http://truthteller.washingtonpost.com/ that displays “TRUE” or “FALSE” in real time next to video of politicians and pundits as they...

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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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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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Sources of data on human rights in the Middle East/ Arab world

Arab Barometer - Established in 2005 by scholars in the Arab world and the United States. Data on political attitudes of Arab citizens.  Arab Democracy Index  -A project of the Arab Reform Initiative...

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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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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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