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Anna Rosling

Co-Founder

Gapminder Foundation

Co-Founder

Gapminder Foundation

Her mission at Gapminders is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based world view everyone can understand. Rosling also founded Dollar Street, the biggest systematic image bank with representative home documentations based on data. She is co-author of the book ‘Factfulness’.

Anna Rosling on the Schedule 2023

All times in CEST

Tuesday, 29 August

Starting times

Afternoon

Emotions vs. Facts – Can “Factfulness” Help Change the World?

English 90

It feels like the world is going from one crisis to another. The subjective feeling of a downward spiral and the
idea of "factfulness", as a way to open up minds for fact-based reasoning, are addressed and explained. Which
role does factual knowledge play when it comes to maintaining democratic structures? What is businesses?
and the economy's contribution? Can autocratic tendencies be prevented by factfulness?

Congress Centrum Alpbach , CCA Schrödinger-Saal

14:00 - 15:30 Emotions vs. Facts – Can “Factfulness” Help Change the World?

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