April 13th, 2007

Debunking the myth of the “Third World”

Those of you who read my recent telephone tree post will know that I studied ‘development’ at university. Naturally, I’m also a fan of Gapminder. So it was a real treat to come across this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI

If you cannot make sense of big issues through storytelling, then you might as well have some fun with statistics.

Anyway, I’m off to Yorkshire for a long weekend.

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By Steve Bridger filed under social media, youtube

Technorati development myths, gapminder, hans rosling, visualisation

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2 Responses to “Debunking the myth of the “Third World””

  1. Ian Delaney Says:
    April 13th, 2007 at 11:42 am

    They are quite astounding videos - note that there are two more from the same talk:

    http://twopointouch.com/2006/12/20/health-cannot-be-bought-at-the-supermarket/

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    April 13th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

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