KEYNOTE - MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER

摘要

Swedish doctor, academic and statistician Hans Rosling, who will give the Monday morning keynote speech on water's role in development and health, promises an interesting and thought-provoking perspective on the subject. He starts by noting that 'we tend to discuss one silo at a time, as if maternal health and water are different. And we talk about the developing world from the worst of places - Somalia, Congo, Afghanistan - to the best - Brazil, South Korea and Singapore.' Rosling says wryly that he would like to invent a new term for the developing world: 'the world'.