[EQ] New insights on poverty and life around the world

 

New insights on poverty and life around the world

 

TedTalks 2007: Hans Rosling on poverty

 

Hans Rosling
Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute
Co-founder, Director of Gapminder Foundation

            http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/140

 

A professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, his current work focuses on dispelling common myths about the so-called developing world, which (he points out) is no longer worlds away from the west. In fact, most of the third world is on the same trajectory toward health and prosperity, and many countries are moving twice as fast as the west did.

What sets Rosling apart isn’t just his apt observations of broad social and economic trends, but the stunning way he presents them.

The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop.

 

 

 

 

 

TED http://www.ted.com/ stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

 

Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Discoverd konzo, a new epidemic paralytic disease, when serving as doctor in Mocambique 1979-81. Two decades of research in rural Africa traced the cause to toxic ill-processed cassava roots, hunger and poverty. Co-founded Médecines sans Frontier Sweden. Started courses and wrote textbook on Global Health. Initiated university collaborations with Asia and Africa. Co-founded Gapminder
http://www.gapminder.org/video/talks/ that unveils the beuty of statistics by turning boring numbers into enjoyable animations that make sense of the world.

 

 

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