- Hans Rosling (Karolinska Institutet)
- Presentation = the real world and why it matters
- Pre-test in global health
- Country with highest child mortality - students got it wrong
- Swedish top students know less about the wolrd than the chimpanzee
- Score below random
- Swedish professors = +/- chimpanzees
- Wrong pre-conceived ideas about the world
- Asked students: how do you think about the world
- It's we and them
- China cannot live like us
- Taxonomy
- Aggregation of concepts
- Criteria
- Western = small family long life
- 3rd world = large family short life
- Shows data of 1962 that confirms
- How are things today?
- The world modernizes in a way that is different than our way
- Demographic dynamics tends to 2 children per couple
- Population will stabilize by 2050
- HIV will have no major impact
- Challenge to think in terms of modernization not globalization
- Family planning in most families in the world
- 3rd world men more modern than our grand-fathers (know how to use a condom...)
- World poverty & aid
- Aid promotes the Tintin like vision that "we ought to help them"
- One dollar / day = poverty limit (>80% of resources used to survive)
- Agriculture subsidies
- = 4-5 times more than aid budgets
- more expensive than the Irak war
- Progress but it would take little for populations to fall back into poverty
- Need for some form of social security
- Need for "meso-credit" not micro-credit
- Child survival
- Splits sub-saharan Africa per country
- Mauritius better than Europe
- Mauritius = first country with free trade with Europe
- Ghana is take-off = time to invest there
- No longer possible to speak of continental aggregates
- All blocks are very split
- Perhaps child body count shoudl be started in the USA as well
- Calls for a fact-based world view
- Neighbour knows 200 types of wine and only two types of countries
- Industrialized
- Non-industrialized
- Development continuum (Low - Medium - High)
- Like a family story
- Monsters
- Poverty for low development countries
- Injustice & despotism for medium income countries
- Carbon dioxyde for high income countries
- Data exists
- World is going through their own modernization paths
- Interesting
- UN & International organization have boring & expensive data
- Need to get the data out in the wolrd and offer understandable graphics
- Do not disseminate data - let people access it freely
- Results visualization technology
- Gapminder
- Developed by his son & small start-up in Sweden
- Contact Rosling for that technology
- Q&A
- How much more democracies in the wolrd
- Feeble links between democratization & economic progress
- Feeble links between democratization & good health
- Free press
- Social networking applications other than meeting & dating
- Shows link between wealth & Internet access
- Let all lectures go out on YouTube and compete
- No need for transposing University material online
- Sidewalks are free! Why shouldn't content?
- Content should e as free as sidewalks
- Content producers should contribute content like taxes
- Let universities compete on YouTube!
- Should we force countries to brig the cost of boradbad down?
- Ballpen is the best technology for children in Africa
- Technology is noce, but there are other things that could help
- Dams not built
- Prevented by western well-meaning groups
- Power cuts
- Impacts on Internet & computing
- Prices down on all modern technologies
- Low income countries have 10$ / head / year on health
- Vision for the future
- Sweden should be a good part of the world
- vs Sweden should be a part of the good world
- That's what good policy is all about
- UN budget is like NY Firebriagde budget
- Internet technologies are good to dee