Around 20% of the world’s population still lack access to clean drinking water, and around 2 million children die every year because of water-related diseases. It’s an issue that deeply concerns me, and so I was very interested to come across the LifeStraw at the Dubai Humanitarian Aid Conference (DIHAD) a few weeks back. [...]

For a long time the business sector and citizen sector haven’t been playing the same game, they’ve been using entirely different scoring systems: profit vs. social impact. Increasingly, what we are all recognizing is that economic prosperity, social justice, and environmental sustainability must be advanced at the same time if we want to respond [...]

Here’s a question: Where did the mountain bike come front? Traditional thinking might suggest that it emerged either from the R&D department of a large bike manufacturer, or from the shed of a lone, slightly eccentric, entrepreneur… but neither of these is correct. It was put together, literally, by a community of Californian [...]

Apparently, we know less about the world than chimpanzees. Since chimps are not biased by old news and assumptions about the state of the world, at least they have a 50/50 shot at the right answers…
Professor Hans Rosling is a statistics guru, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to [...]