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Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development at local, national, and global levels.[1]
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Gapminder was founded in 2005 by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Hans Rosling.[2] The name Gapminder was derived from the "Mind the Gap" warning messages on the London Underground.[3]
The Foundation initially developed the Trendalyzer software, which produced the now famous animated bubble graph.[1] This software was acquired by Google in March 2006 and the team of developers for Gapminder joined Google in April 2007.[4]
The current version of Trendalyzer is Gapminder Tools,[5] a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries and many sub-national regions.
The current president of the foundation is Ola Rosling. Anna Rosling Rönnlund is the foundation's vice president.[6]
The Gapminder Foundation has produced several other projects, including:
Gapminder's stated mission is "Fighting devastating ignorance with fact-based worldviews everyone can understand."[1]
The object of the Foundation is to promote sustainable global development and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Goals by increasing the use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development at local, national, and global levels.
The object of the Foundation shall be achieved by:[7]
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