ICTlogy

Reading a post by Ethan Zuckerman I’ve found a terrific tool I hadn’t heard of.

The Human Development Report search tools let you build your own table by chosing the countries, data, etc. you want, crossing them they way you want and exporting them in CSV files or other spreadsheet formats. Impressive, really impressive. I wonder if I’ll ever overcome my deepest ignorance :P

Some highlights/bookmarks of the information there:

• Human Development Reports, the Human Development Report Office web site
• All data from the Human Development Report
• Searchable data and customized searches – and output!
• Other data sources from different UN agencies
• Update:
  World Bank World Development Indicators.

This finding will be very useful :) :) :)

César tells me about Google Scholar (beta), that enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature.

You might think this is quite simple but here are some cute searches I made. I do invite you to see the results:

• ICT4D

• “information and communication technologies for development”
  

• ngo “e-learning”

• “online volunteers”

• ICTlogy (of course ;)

• “Ismael Peña” (this is getting quite egocentric ;DDD )

If you can suggest interesting queries, please let me know :)

“Rich nations flunk in educating poor”, at CNN.com.

Well, mmm…: so sad!!!

My highlight is “how rich countries have performed on promises made during a conference in Dakar in 2000 to supply funds needed to give the world’s children a basic education”. Damned promises. All in all it is always the same: Rio de Janeiro, Kyoto, Dakar… We’re running out of city names to testify the greatest lies of the world. It just makes me sick.

I guess I should go back to bed…