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December 20, 2020 / Last updated : December 20, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

“I Forgot There Was A Pandemic”: How It Feels Living In Places Where (BuzzFeed News)

BuzzFeed News: “I Forgot There Was A Pandemic”: How It Feels Living In Places Where COVID Isn’t A Thing. “As the third surge of the pandemic devastates the US, where overwhelmed hospitals are currently treating more than 100,000 patients with COVID-19 and deaths are climbing to record levels, many Americans are once again heading back […]

October 20, 2020 / Last updated : October 20, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

The Next Web: More than 50% of humans in the world use social media — here’s what you need to know

The Next Web: More than 50% of humans in the world use social media — here’s what you need to know . “More than 4 billion people around the world now use social media each month, and an average of nearly 2 million new users are joining them every day. The world is spending more […]

October 6, 2020 / Last updated : October 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Georgetown Law: New HIV Policy Lab uses law and policy data in the HIV response

Georgetown Law: New HIV Policy Lab uses law and policy data in the HIV response. “The HIV Policy Lab is a data visualization and comparison tool that tracks national policy across 33 different indicators in 194 countries around the world, giving a measure of the policy environment. The goal is to improve transparency, the ability […]

October 6, 2020 / Last updated : October 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Wall Street Journal: Food Crisis Grows Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Wall Street Journal: Food Crisis Grows Amid Coronavirus Pandemic. “The pandemic has doubled the number of people who are acutely food insecure, said Arif Husain, chief economist at the United Nations World Food Programme, from 135 million people in 2019 to 270 million. Food aid will be at a record, he said, hopefully reaching some […]

October 6, 2020 / Last updated : October 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

University of Minnesota: New tool ranks COVID-19 responses of 19 hard-hit nations

University of Minnesota: New tool ranks COVID-19 responses of 19 hard-hit nations. “The 10-item COVID-SCORE tool, created and validated by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, the City University of New York (CUNY), and other international organizations, was used in mid-June to survey the attitudes of 13,426 randomly selected participants in 19 countries heavily affected […]

October 6, 2020 / Last updated : October 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

ReliefWeb: Dedicated ‘United Nations Disarmament Yearbook’ website, now live, spotlights core peace, security challenges as global organization turns 75

ReliefWeb: Dedicated ‘United Nations Disarmament Yearbook’ website, now live, spotlights core peace, security challenges as global organization turns 75. “The Office for Disarmament Affairs launched a new website today featuring the latest version of the United Nations Disarmament Yearbook….This new digital platform allows diplomats, technical experts, journalists and other readers to effortlessly navigate through a […]

October 4, 2020 / Last updated : October 4, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Open Culture: Explore a Digital Archive of Student Notebooks from Around the World (1773-Present)

New-to-me, from Open Culture: Explore a Digital Archive of Student Notebooks from Around the World (1773-Present). “To bring back memories of your schooldays, there’s nothing quite like the sight of your old exercise books. This holds true whether you went to school in Ghana in the 2010s, Italy in the 90s, France in the 80s, […]

October 3, 2020 / Last updated : October 3, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Devex: New tool tracks how policies are protecting women during COVID-19

Devex: New tool tracks how policies are protecting women during COVID-19. ” New data reveals that most countries are not taking a comprehensive approach to protecting women from the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Only 25 countries have responded across the three areas measured — tackling violence against women and girls, supporting […]

September 28, 2020 / Last updated : September 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

World Intellectual Property Organization: WIPO Launches New Free Database of Judicial Decisions on Intellectual Property from Around the World

World Intellectual Property Organization: WIPO Launches New Free Database of Judicial Decisions on Intellectual Property from Around the World . “As technological innovation often outpaces the ability of legislatures and governments to create new rules and regulations, courts across the world are increasingly facing common issues of a highly sophisticated nature. WIPO-Lex Judgments contributes to […]

September 26, 2020 / Last updated : September 26, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Coronavirus: Two million deaths ‘very likely’ even with vaccine, WHO warns (BBC)

BBC: Coronavirus: Two million deaths ‘very likely’ even with vaccine, WHO warns. “The global coronavirus death toll could hit two million before an effective vaccine is widely used, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Mike Ryan, the WHO’s emergencies head, said the figure could be higher without concerted international action. Almost one million […]

September 24, 2020 / Last updated : September 24, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

MIT News: Why social media has changed the world — and how to fix it

MIT News: Why social media has changed the world — and how to fix it . “In 2005, about 7 percent of American adults used social media. But by 2017, 80 percent of American adults used Facebook alone. About 3.5 billion people on the planet, out of 7.7 billion, are active social media participants. Globally, […]

September 22, 2020 / Last updated : September 22, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

MIT Technology Review: AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes

MIT Technology Review: AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes. “International organizations and corporations are racing to develop global guidelines for the ethical use of artificial intelligence. Declarations, manifestos, and recommendations are flooding the internet. But these efforts will be futile if they fail to account for the cultural and regional contexts […]

September 19, 2020 / Last updated : September 19, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

BBC: Global perception of US falls to two-decade low

BBC: Global perception of US falls to two-decade low . “America’s reputation among some allies has fallen to its lowest point in nearly two decades, according to a global survey. The findings of the Pew Research Center poll reflect public perceptions of the US in 13 countries. Positive views of the US has fallen to […]

September 18, 2020 / Last updated : September 18, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Covid-19: New fear grips Europe as cases top 30m worldwide (BBC)

BBC: Covid-19: New fear grips Europe as cases top 30m worldwide. “The number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe has surpassed 30 million, according to figures by America’s Johns Hopkins University. More than 940,000 have died with Covid-19 since the outbreak began in China late last year. The US, India and Brazil have the […]

September 16, 2020 / Last updated : September 16, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

ReliefWeb: Google and FAO launch new Big Data tool for all

ReliefWeb: Google and FAO launch new Big Data tool for all. “Earth Map is an innovative and free-to-use Web-based tool to provide efficient, rapid, inexpensive and analytically cogent insights, drawn from satellites as well as [Food and Agriculture Organization]’s considerable wealth of agriculturally relevant data, with a few clicks on a computer. Earth Map has […]

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