TEDS Videos on Developing Nations and Poverty

Dave Richards at Defeating Global Poverty has highlighted a couple of excellent TEDS Talks presentations. The first is Jacqueline Novogratz talking about the role of patient capital. The website description of the talk is:

Jacqueline Novogratz is pioneering new ways of tackling poverty. In her view, traditional charity rarely delivers lasting results. Her solution, outlined here through a series of revealing personal stories, is "patient capital": support for "bottom of the pyramid" businesses which the commercial market alone couldn't provide. The result: sustainable jobs, goods, services -- and dignity -- for the world's poorest.

The second video is an encore presentation by Hans Roling with his Gapminder animated graphs.

In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his Trendalyzer software -- which analyzes and displays data in amazingly accessible ways, allowing people to see patterns previously hidden behind mountains of stats. (Ten days later, he announced a deal with Google to acquire the software.) He also demos Dollar Street, a program that lets you peer in the windows of typical families worldwide living at different income levels. Be sure to watch straight through to the (literally) jaw-dropping finale.

Comments

[Virgil]

Rosling's presentation was absolutely amazing! It confirms everything we have been saying for decades: free markets pull people out of poverty and bridge the gap.

I'll have to post a copy of it myself!

[Michael W. Kruse]

Hehehe...Oh yeah, he did say something about economic issues didn't he. I was mostly intrigued with the sword swallowing. :)

Seriously, I love this guy and his presentations. Be sure to check out gapminder if you aren't already aware of it. Really cool stuff at that site.

[Virgil]

I will check out gapminder.

Also, do you know what the name of the software he developed is? The visualization of the data is stunning. My 6 year old daughter will understand the trends using those graphs.

[Michael W. Kruse]

I think it is called Trendanalyzer. Google bought Gapminder a few months ago and it is my understanding that Trendanalyzer is supposed to be available to the public eventually, although I can find no release date.

[Virgil]

Oh..nevermind. That IS gapminder.org. Duh! :)

[Virgil]

Ahh...I didn't know Google bought them. I hope they make it public. It would be a great addon tool to any presentation.

[Michael W. Kruse]

Yes, their graphics software has been causing me to violate the tenth commandment:

"You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour, including his graphics software."