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1. How did the number of deaths from natural disasters change during the last
century? - ANSWER ✔ decreased to less than half
2. on average how much schooling have women who are currently 30 years old
have? - ANSWER ✔ 7 years
3. In the last 20 years, how did the percentage of people in the world who live
in extreme poverty change? (Extreme poverty is defined as not having
enough food for the day). - ANSWER ✔ almost halved
4. What is the percentage of the world's one-year-olds that have basic vaccine
against measles? - ANSWER ✔ 80 % !
5. Why do people usually provide a wrong answer to survey questions asked
by Hans Rosling? - ANSWER ✔ their experiences are not representative
and they have outdated facts
6. What, according to Hans and Ola Rosling, should NOT remember, NOT be
the rule of thumbs when responding to survey questions: - ANSWER ✔
things do not improve
7. what are hans rosling and Ola roslings rules of thumbs when answering
survey questions? - ANSWER ✔ 1. things get better
2. one Hump - most people are in the middle
3. first social, then rich
4. sharks kill very few
,8. Which is a potential areas of impact for ICT that ARE discussed by Brewer
et al.? - ANSWER ✔ health, education, disaster management, e-
government, economic efficiency
9. According to Brewer et al., what three factors have an impact on providing
access to ICT in developing regions: - ANSWER ✔ 1. Investment capital -
example, microcredit
10.2. franchising, - microcredit has become source of capital, for example in
grameen telecom buying a cell phone and offering it as a pay phone for a
village
11.3. shared technology - sharing computers and cell phones
12.Bhoomi, a project discussed by Brewer et al., is an example of what kind of
application area? - ANSWER ✔ E- government
13.Bhoomi is.... - ANSWER ✔ a land records project in india that deals with
the consolidation of multiple different kinds of land records
14.According to Toyama, technology is only a: - ANSWER ✔ magnifier of
human intent and capacity
15.According to Archon Fung, what is a third consideration for technology to
deliver on its promise for development: - ANSWER ✔ efficacy
16.According to Toyama, what are the mechanisms that enables technology to
widen the gap between haves and have-nots? - ANSWER ✔ differential
access- technology is more accessible to rich and the powerful, differential
capacity- in terms of education, social skills, or social connections
differential motivation **
17.Gordon Brown is the - ANSWER ✔ All of the above
18.Professional roles played by Yanis Varofakis include: - ANSWER ✔ Both
(a) and (b)
19.What are the "twin peaks" Yanis Varoufakis refers to in his talk - ANSWER
✔ High debt and high idle cash reserves
, 20.What does Yanis Varoufakis term as "the cosmos" - ANSWER ✔ universal
global digital currency
21.What does Gordon Brown mean by a global ethic - ANSWER ✔
recognizing our responsibility to others
22.What does IMF stand for - ANSWER ✔ International Monetary Fund
23.IN which year was the Bretton Woods Conference held - ANSWER ✔
1944
24.Prominent economist at the Bretton Woods Conference - ANSWER ✔
John Maynard Keynes
25.What phenomenon does the Malthusian Trap refer to - ANSWER ✔ short
term income gains were inevitably lost to population growth
26.Of all the voice-calling minutes used in the world in 2011, what percentage
was accounted for by cross-border phone calls? - ANSWER ✔ 2%
27.What percent of the world's population consists of first-generation
immigrants? - ANSWER ✔ 3%
28.Of all the investment that occurs in the world, what percentage is accounted
for by FDI (foreign direct investment)? - ANSWER ✔ 10%
29.By 2030, ____________ of world's population is expected to live in cities: -
ANSWER ✔ 2/3
30.what are the 10 flatteners expressed by thomas friedman? - ANSWER ✔
fall of the berlin wall, netscape IPO, workflow software, open sourcing,
outsourcing, offshoring, supply-chaining, insourcing, informing, wireless
31.Who has characterized the world as "spiky"? - ANSWER ✔ Richard
Florida
32.In his talk, Khanna calls the confluence of connectivity and geography -
ANSWER ✔ connectography