Gapminder Foundation

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Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development at local, national, and global levels. [1]

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Gapminder was founded in 2005 by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Hans Rosling. [2] The name Gapminder was derived from the "Mind the Gap" warning messages on the London Underground. [3]

Overview

Hans Rosling, a founding board of the Gapminder Foundation, narrates 'Why Boat Refugees Don't Fly! - Factpod 16', a video produced by the Gapminder Foundation.

The Foundation initially developed the Trendalyzer software, which produced the now famous animated bubble graph. [1] This software was acquired by Google in March 2006 and the team of developers for Gapminder joined Google in April 2007. [4]

The current version of Trendalyzer is Gapminder Tools, [5] a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries and many sub-national regions.

The current president of the foundation is Ola Rosling. Anna Rosling Rönnlund is the foundation's vice president. [6]

Projects

World Income Distribution: Gapminder World (2015) Gapminder-World-2015.pdf
World Income Distribution: Gapminder World (2015)

The Gapminder Foundation has produced several other projects, including:

Mission statement

Gapminder's stated mission is "Fighting devastating ignorance with fact-based worldviews everyone can understand." [1]

The object of the Foundation is to promote sustainable global development and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Goals by increasing the use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development at local, national, and global levels.

The object of the Foundation shall be achieved by: [7]

  1. use and development of information technology for easily understandable visualization of statistics and other information;
  2. ownership, protection, and free dissemination of development results;
  3. use, together with various cooperation partners, of the development results to make statistics and other information about development available and understandable to broad user groups via the Internet and other media.

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References

Data Interface - Download the data | Gapminder

  1. 1 2 3 "Our mission". Archived from the original on 2020-03-15. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  2. "History". Archived from the original on 2020-03-12. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  3. Roberts, Sam (2017-02-09). "Hans Rosling, Swedish Doctor and Pop-Star Statistician, Dies at 68". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  4. "About". www.gapminder.org.
  5. "Gapminder Tools". www.gapminder.org.
  6. "Our Team" . Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  7. "Constitution". Gapminder Foundation. Archived from the original on 2017-05-20. Retrieved 2011-04-23.

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