How well fed is the world?

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Ebola: How well is the UK prepared?

The government expects a handful of cases of Ebola virus disease in the UK over the next three months and it hopes, through screening at airports and other points of entry, to identify passengers coming from the affected region (there are no direct flights and fewer than 1000 arrived via flights from other European capitals in September) who could develop the disease once in the UK, even if the...

[How well-informed is the ophthalmology patient?].

BACKGROUND The patient responsibility concept is based on better informed patients who can shoulder the responsibility for their own health and who can discuss matters competently with their health care provider, becoming partners of their doctors in enabling them to make informed decisions about their medical care. Better patient information and more active participation is also often associat...

Reflective Practice: How the World Bank Explored Its Own Biases?

While many international organisations have independent evaluations, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Health organization (WHO), uniquely the World Bank in its 2015 World Development Report sought to ascertain the potential biases that influence how its staff interpret evidence and influence policy. Here, we describe the World Bank’s study design, including experiments ...

How OpenStreetMap Is Changing the World

This talk reviews these and many more aspects of OpenStreetMap and gives an in depth feel of the past, present and future of the project. OpenStreetMap is a map of the world built by volunteers. Using a peer production model similar to wikipedia approximately 300,000 people collaboratively map features such as roads, parks and buildings and submit them to be shared. That map data is made availa...