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UNEP Multimedia - Home - 1 views

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    United Nations Environment Programme - lots of digital resources here including videos, animations and podcasts
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The hopeful continent: Africa rising | The Economist - 0 views

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    Interesting article about Africa's rising economy. Great teacher resource - possible student use (sections?). Thanks Jackson for the tip!
kels_giroux

FAO: FAO Home - 0 views

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    Food and Agriculture Org of the UN
Melissa Griffin

StatPlanet Map Maker - Interactive Mapping & Visualization Software - 0 views

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    StatPlanet is a browser-based interactive data visualization and mapping application. Use it to easily and rapidly create visualizations from simple Flash maps to advanced infographics. StatPlanet can be freely and easily hosted on your own website. It is lightweight, lightning fast, and makes exploring large data sets easy, fun and highly interactive.
Melissa Griffin

Breathingearth - CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time - 1 views

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    Welcome to Breathing Earth. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. Please remember that this is just a simulation. Although the CO2 emission, birth rate and death rate data used in Breathing Earth comes from reputable sources, data that measures things on such a massive scale can never be 100% accurate.
John Haug

Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? - 2 views

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    Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories.
kels_giroux

Oxfam Education: Resources index | Change the World in Eight Steps - 6 views

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    Posters, lesson ideas, and information on MDGS
Melissa Griffin

OECD video on busan and MDG progress - short and good - 3 views

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    With some two billion people living in poverty, without clean water and sanitation or access to schooling and healthcare, it's clear that development has to work better to improve people's lives. The Forth High-level Forum in Busan aims to make that happen.
Andrea Law

United Nations in Vietnam - 3 views

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    This website is the UN in Vietnam and looks at each MDG from a local perspective!
Andrea Law

WorldMapper - 7 views

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    Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
Melissa Griffin

100 People: A World Portrait - 3 views

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    Bill Gates meets 10 Intel ISEF studentsat Techonomy for the 100 People project The 100 People Foundation is a global education toolbox. By framing the world population as a community of 100 people, we help students to better understand the complex issues facing our planet and the resources we share.
Melissa Griffin

Shake the world - MDG activities - 5 views

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    Welcome! It is time to Shake the World. How? By joining the global Shake the World movement to support the Millennium Development Goals. These are the eight goals set by the UN in september 2000 to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015. Five years to go, eight goals to achieve, time to shake the world!
Sibylle Harth

Post 2015 | End Poverty 2015 - 3 views

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    The United Nations Millennium Campaign, along with many partners within the United Nations as well as Civil Society Stakeholders are now looking at prospects for the Post-2015 agenda. As we look towards the year 2015, we will make make one final push to achieve the MDGs, seriously review the experience had with development goals since 2000 and strive to help create a more inclusive and holistic set of goals post-2015.
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