Watch a video of kanga style health care, play around with some multicolored bubbles to understand how countries have progressed and or just look at an animated map showing migration.

Back to Basics

The Gates Foundation has posted a feel good video of its Kangaroo Mother Care project in Malawi, as part of its recently launched Living Proof project. The kanga program teaches mothers how to wrap their babies to their bodies, in order to increase their body temperatures. Nothing fancy: just a back to basics approach to reducing deaths amongst pre-term babies who are often very underweight.

Bubbles Can be Useful Too

The World Bank has come out with a data visualizer tool. It consists of colorful bubbles, colour coded by region and sized proportional to population, that move in indication of various social, economic, financial, information & technology, and environmental indicators. It plots 49 indicators for 209 countries.

Via End Poverty in South Asia

Mapping Migration

Pegged to the Human Development Report, which focuses on migration, The Economist has a new narrated and animated map depicting global migrations: who goes where and how much money they send home. Not sure if it’s the bandwidth in the office or whether this video just doesn’t stream in India, but I haven’t been able to watch it yet.

How Connected is Your Area?

Finally, the researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, and the World Bank, have come up with a map that shows where the world’s most remote regions are. The brighter a region, the closer it is to a large city. The world’s most remote region… the Tibetan plateau.

New Scientist Via Fast Company