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China Africa

Finally a come back. This is the inception of the story. China’s fast growing trade in Africa sure made a lot of new before it hosted Olympics. The journalist there sure did not like this romance. China is a communist country and it is trading vigorously in Africa securing natural resources. Moreover it is trading with bloody dictator led countries too. Thus the West’s deprive-them-of-all-facilities-if-they-are-not-a-democracy-except-yes-for-china philosophy goes down the drain. Of course any westerner will find it offending. But from then on the way it came in media, it appeared to be always biased. The better side can be found here . The book in discussion in this article however draws a rather rosy picture, Though the author doesn’t ignore the malicious motives of China that actually went to backburner there. Yes, I too agree that China’s interest will sure profit Africa a lot. True, Africa is not poor, people there are. It is poorly managed (- Johnson-Sirleaf). Not letting the...

Data from Government Portals

In last some months I happened to see the vast amount of data and statistics available in our govt. portals. I was always surprised at the amount the data available to public in western countries. Cities like NewYork provide charts on various topics available to people. They used a business intelligence tool (OBIEE) I work on for providing many useful graphs too. (No I did not not work on that project) Check the NewYork CPR (City Wide Performance Reporting) here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/ops/cpr/html/home/home.shtml Even UN made its database available to public for along time and has been updating the way people can access it. ( http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/ updated to http://data.un.org/ ) One can see numerous infographics made out of these by people e.g: http://projects.flowingdata.com/state-of-the-world/ http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2009/apr/electric-grid/ http://www.candychang.com/desk/2008/11/12/vendor-power/ Now the best news of theme all is this: http://googleblog.blogspot...