I am preparing for a keynote in a couple of week and I have found a couple of great statistics sources for some of information technology.
The three I have found most useful at the moment are:
- The CIA Factbook – https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html This is a useful source for general information and statistics about countries particularly, cellular and internet use, general demographics etc
- Facebook Statistics page – http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics This is a gold mine for information about Facebook and regularly updated. &50 million users, 50% active on a daily basis and 250million accessing from mobile devices
- Twitter http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html This is an update from the twitter blog on accounts and tweets. Useful
The twitter blog also had this interesting video embedded on it with different celebrities, politicians and people explaining why they use twitter
The sentinel project is another of the web sites I like. This is a humanitarian site, attempting to inform us of events happening around the world. Using Satellite imagery and analysis they are highlighting areas of conflict, need, oppression and genocide around the world. http://www.satsentinel.org/ Another great source of stunning media about Humanitarian crisis’s is Media Storm – The videos they produce will move and change you. – http://mediastorm.com
And finally a great resource – EDUBUNTU – this is an education focused linux distribution. Its great. Available with a focus on different levels Primary, Secondary and Tertairy this distribution delivers not only an operating system but a suite of software. – http://www.edubuntu.org/
Latest Distribution – Natty Narwhal – Download – http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/11.04/release/
