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Social science sites of the week archive 21st September 2020

Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites for social scientists    this week more  covid updates on the latest measures     UniCovid - to track reported Covid-19 cases at UK universities.   Established by This website was set up by John Levin and Andrew Chitty. It aims to report news stories and statistics on cases, outbreaks, local measures,   Collective Architecture and Design Response to Covid-19 Web Archive.   curated by Ann Whiteside and Sara Rogers (Harvard University), Patricia Guardiola (University of Pennsylvania), and Kathy Winsor Bohlman and Jessica Quagliaroli (Yale University) — under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation — the Archive documents how the architecture and design communities have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by web archiving a number of key American websites     Knitting the Curve  a data driven initiative from staff at the university of Alberta who are crea...

social science sites of the week archive 18th september

  Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites of the week   Covid still updating the blog http:// social sciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/   UNESCO Impact of Covid-19 on education Useful for international comparisons at all levels   United States: Federal and State Executive Responses to COVID-19 Useful summary from the Library of   Congress   COVID-19 Data Portal The UN Development Coordination Of fice has a new data portal tracking the work of UN teams to tackle COVID-19 in 162 countries and territories. The web portal focuses on UN humanitarian work it also looks at the implementation of national socio economic plans Platform for Redesign 2020: Online Platform on Sustainable and Resilient Recovery from COVID-19 (environmental policy) A new portal from   the Government of Japan with support from UN Climate Change. The  new platform is a hub that collates countries’ climate and other env...

Social science sites of the week 11th september 2020

  Here is   the   latest update   of   new and interesting   sites   for   social   scientists   in  the  news Covid still updating  the  blog http:// social sciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/ including some entries on  universities reopening        How Covid-19 is Changing  the  World: a Statistical Perspective – Volume II United Nations. This second report – compiled jointly by international organizations, under  the  aegis  of   the  Committee for  the  Coordination  of  Statistical Activities (CCSA) Topics covered include:  the  economic impact,  social  impact, regional impact,        The  unequal impact  of   the  lockdown on sections  of  British society highlighted in  the  latest Demos report . It is part  of   the ir Renew Normal: Commissi...