Resources of the Week: Global RSS Feeds
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
Though most of our readers do come from North America, we also realize that we have an international audience for ResourceShelf and DocuTicker. So we make it a point to include items of potential interest to folks beyond our immediate borders — at least English-speaking folks, since we are basically monolingual here, alas. Thus, we’re always on the lookout for RSS feeds that may alert us to worthwhile content in or about other nations. With that in mind, here are a few good fishing holes for you to consider.
Stay connected to important global development issues by subscribing to World Bank RSS feeds. The feeds include updated World Bank news as well as new project information and documents.
There is an individual feed for each country in which the World Bank is doing work. Or you can subscribe to regional feeds for Africa, East Asia & Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, South Asia. By poking around the World Bank site, we’ve unearthed a few other feeds:
+ World Bank: Independent Evaluation
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is an independent unit within the World Bank; it reports directly to the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors. IEG assesses what works, and what does not; how a borrower plans to run and maintain a project; and the lasting contribution of the Bank to a country’s overall development.
+ World Bank e-Library – New publications online
Welcome to the World Bank e-Library, an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 4,500 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,800 World Bank publications and over 2,700 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published.
We bring you timely news, resources, tools, ideas and commentary on poverty related issues.
+ Private Sector Development Blog
The Private Sector Development Blog (PSD Blog) gathers together news, resources and ideas about the role of private enterprise in fighting poverty. The blog is informal and represents the quirks and opinions of the bloggers, not the World Bank Group.
–
RSS Feeds from the UN News Service
Offered here are individual feeds grouped by region (Middle East, Africa, Europe, Americas, Asia Pacific) or subject (Health, Poverty, Food Security, UN Affairs, Law/Crime/Prevention, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid/Refugees, Environment/Shelter, Culture/Education, Economic Development, Women/Children/Population, Peace/Security). Or for a broader view, subscribe to the UN News Centre – Top Stories feed.
If you’re one of our regular readers, you already know we are big fans of the UN Pulse weblog, from the UN’s New York-based Dag Hammarskjöld Library, which “alerts you to selected just-released UN online information, major reports, publications and documents.” This blog’s feed definitely belongs in your aggregator.
There are plenty of other feeds scattered around the UN’s network of sites. A quick search turned up these:
+ UN Comtrade Data Availability by Date of Loading — Offers “the latest uploaded trade data” in the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database.
+ A few feeds from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
+ Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights : Recent Reports
+ Communication and Information News feeds from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
+ United National Population Fund feeds: Feeds for news or publications
–
EUROPA: Rapid Syndication
This page lists a large selection of European Commission RSS feeds, however I could not get any of the RSS links to work with either Firefox or Safari on my MacBook Pro, even when I tried the “Bloglines Sub” bookmarklet. Maybe you’ll have better luck.
–
UK Office of Public Sector Information
Operating from within the National Archives, the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is at the heart of information policy, setting standards, delivering access and encouraging the re-use of public sector information. OPSI provides a wide range of services to the public, information industry, government and the wider public sector relating to finding, using, sharing and trading information.
Individual feed available here include: UK Acts, UK Statutory Instruments, Acts of Northern Ireland Assembly, Northern Ireland Orders in Council, Northern Ireland Statutory Rules, Acts of Scottish Parliament, Scottish Statutory Instruments. I wish there were feeds for current parliamentary reports and House of Commons Library Research Papers; alas, it looks like e-mail alerts only.
–
+ Parliamentary Library Web Site Publications (Australia) — Feeds include: Bills Digests, Research Papers, Background Notes, Monthly Economic and Social Indicators (MESI). Find other Parliament of Australia feeds here.
–
The Canadian Library of Parliament offers a feed for its new research publications. For information on legislation currently before Parliament, LEGISinfo offers feeds.
–
Many international organizations, NGOs and think tanks offer RSS feeds; a few from my own aggregator:
+ Amnesty International: Most Recent English Reports from the US Section of Amnesty International.
+ International Crisis Group — feeds by region and subregion.
+ INTUTE Social Sciences Blog (INTUTE, as our regular readers know is an online service by “a network of UK universities and partners”which highlights quality Web resources in different subject areas.)
+ Winspear Business & Economics News with a Canadian Twist from the Winspear Business Reference Library at the University of Alberta
+ World Wildlife Fund News
This entry was posted
on Thursday, August 16th, 2007 and is filed under RSS, Resources for Educators, Search News, Source File.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.