We've been working with Save the Children over the summer and part of our research has led us to this phenomenal talker, Hans Rosling, and his amazing piece of software, Gapminder World.

Take a look at this video.

Irrespective of the power of his argument about the way in which we can have extremely unfortunate misperceptions of the so called "developing world" -  the argument that gave me that 'I'm proud to be a human again' feeling is where he makes a case that all of our publicly funded data needs to be just that - public. He points out in very clear terms that with that data us humans will be able to take a clearer look at ourselves, sweeping aside many of the assumptions that lead us to undue pessimism and inertia.

And yes, we know there has just been a TED Global 2009 and this video is from 2006, but who cares about the new when you have classics like this. Go and have a play with Gapminder, it really knocked me over just how flexible, and frankly, easy it is to use.

Justin