What’s Inside February 2011:
New websites New articles on 2011 social media trends Articles on the BBC
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HyperCities Egypt http://egypt.hypercities.com/ Is a special project of the UCLA Center for Digital Humanities program which is streaming and then archiving tweets from protesters in Cairo who are taking part in the pro-democracy demonstrations. The program was built to run on Internet Explorer 8 but also works on Firefox 3.6, Chrome and Safari. Users may view live tweets or view the archive. Locations are pinpointed. Some tweets have user photos. If you are interested in this topic Mashable http://mashable.com/2011/02/01/egy pt-twitter-infographic/# has a useful collection of links to sources discussing the use of social media during the recent protests in Egypt. Some of the original research is related to analysis by Sysomos MAP. http://blog.sysomos.com/2011/01/31/e gyptian-crisis-twitte/ Other useful blogs which cover the use of social media in political campaigns and revolts are techpresident http://techpresident.com/
Netpolitique http://www.netpolitique.net/?q=node /905 This article discusses the use of facebook in Tunisia. The blog is French but may of the resources it links to are in English! Liberation technology. http://liberationtechnology.stanford. edu A research programme based at Stanford University which is exploring how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods. Its Twitter channel http://twitter.com/Liberationtech has some excellent links to sites being used by protestors in the Middle East to observe and monitor the situation in Egypt and Yemen. On this theme Google Inc has launched a service that allows people in Egypt to send out Twitter messages by leaving a voice mail on a specific phone number, The service, developed by Google and Twitter engineers, enables their voicemails to be automatically translated into an audio file message that is sent to Twitter on the #egypt identifying tab. See more information
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http://twitter.com/speak2tweet# . Further detail on the official Google blog. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/201 1/01/some-weekend-work-that-willhopefully.html
habits and opinions regarding online video content. http://www.opaeurope.org/resources/research/329online-video-news-ineurope%20online%20video%20cont ent
New Report from Pew Internet & American Life Project and the California Healthcare Foundation "Health Topics" http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/ HealthTopics/Summary-ofFindings.aspx How many users look for health information online?
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DEVELOPMENT Apps for Development Competition http://appsfordevelopment.challeng epost.com/ A competition for software developers being held by the World Bank to get new perspectives in identifying solutions to development problems. Closing date February 28th 2011. See the gallery of entries. Categories include sms mobile. Topics – child mortality, millennium development goals, gender equality, environmental sustainability. Education, poverty. Each has a description of the submission and a link to its website. Some with supporting ideas. A useful site for identifying cutting edge initiatives.
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Akamai's State of the Internet Quarter 3 2010. http://www.akamai.com/stateofthein ternet/ Covers penetration, access, broadband adoption. Rural Broadband: Why does it matter?http://ruralcommunities.gov.uk/2011 /02/01/rural-broadband-2/ Commission for Rural Communities report. Becoming a Social Business: The IBM Story ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/lo tus/demos/226706-IDC-WhitepaperBecoming-a-Social-Business-IBMStory.pdf white paper from IDC examines the use of social software by a business.
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Latinos and Digital Technology http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1887/la tinos-digital-technology-internetbroadband-cell-phone-usePew Hispanic center report discusses use of technology by Latinos. Results show Latinos are less likely than whites to access the internet, have a home broadband connection or own a cell phone
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Review of BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 7 by BBC Trust. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_ work/service_reviews/service_licen ces/reviews_radio_347.shtml Had three broad aims: first to assess how well Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 7 are performing against commitments set out in these licences, second to consider the stations’ future direction and third to determine whether amendments to the licences are required. The BBC's management of its Digital Media Initiative http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/ 1011/bbc_digital_media.aspx National Audit Office report
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REGULATION 20th Report - Ofcom: the effectiveness of converged regulation Public Accounts Committee HC 688 http://www.publications.parliament. uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmpubac c/688/68802.htm Performance of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) regarding transparency is not currently meeting its potential. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/researc h/icann_study In August 2010, selected faculty and researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet; Society Harvard University (referred to as the “Berkman team”) initiated an independent, exploratory study analysing ICANN’s decisionmaking processes and communications with its stakeholders.
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