Hans Rosling - The Old Man and Google, (4/5)

From the SSES Startup Seminar with Hans Rosling, the founder of Gapminder and the Trendalyzer software, which was acquired by Google in 2006.

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting 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. Read more at http://www.gapminder.org

On their website they describe themselves as a modern museum that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet.

Hans Rosling is Professor of Global Health at Karolinska Institute and Director of the Gapminder Foundation. Hans has given several talks for TED.com and they have become some of the most popular TEDTalks of all times.

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