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.
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.
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.
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.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
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