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Showing posts with label Sustainable Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sustainable Development. Show all posts
Small Smurfs, Big Goals
The new Sustainable Development Goals are BIG things, which have a long-term aim to change the world. This might be too big for some students to grasp, so this new website has been designed to reduce this to a manageable size.
Answer some questions on what you think would make the Smurf Village the happiest place to live, and it will suggest which Smurf you are based on your answers, and which goals would help achieve that.
Here's my result:
Which Smurf will you be?
Here's my result:
World Development Indicators 2016
Download, or read online as an ISSUU document.
One important change is there is no longer a distinction between developing and developed countries in the report as has previously been the case.
In WDI 2016, there is no longer a distinction between developing countries (defined in previous editions as low- and middle-income countries) and developed countries (previously high-income countries). Regional groupings (such as “East Asia”) are now based on geographical coverage rather than a sub-set of countries that were previously referred to as developing. In some occasional cases, where data availability or context have dictated it, we’ve excluded high income from some charts or tables, and we’ve indicated that in the footnotes.
Two implications of this change are that a new aggregate for North America has been included in tables, and aggregates for Europe and Central Asia include countries of the European Union.
The work of Hans Rosling has to be part of the reason for this change, and a recognition that such divisions are increasingly harder to make.The data are available in a wide range of formats too:
All the data in World Development Indicators is available completely free of charge, as part of the World Bank’s Open Data Initiative. A complete list of tools to access, explore, and interact with WDI 2016 are available at http://data.worldbank.org/wdi and include:
- The World Bank’s main multi-lingual data website, http://data.worldbank.org and a new “beta” website, optimized for mobile devices: http://beta.data.worldbank.org/
- Bulk download files of the WDI dataset in CSV and XLS formats, direct access via our API and via third party API wrappers for popular languages including Python, STATA and R.
- The World Development Indicators and Little Data Book print publications in PDF and eBook formats:http://data.worldbank.org/wdi
- The DataBank query tool which allows users to create, save, and share tables, charts and maps, and embed them on webpages: http://databank.worldbank.org
- Statistical tables and metadata for countries, geographic regions and income groups presented by WDI section: http://wdi.worldbank.org/tables
- The DataFinder mobile apps for for iOS and Android devices: http://data.worldbank.org/apps
- The Data Helpdesk which responds to frequently asked questions about World Bank data and lets users submit new questions: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/
Student video on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
An impressive video made by a Year 11 student of Richard Allaway's school.
The student who produced it is in Y11. As part of the MYP (Middle Years Project) students need to complete the 'Personal Project' - a substantial independent project, and this is part of that.
A nice use of Kate Raworth's doughnut model too.
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