Weblinks and videos for use with 9025 - GCSE AQA NEA 2019 Springboard Research Pack: Developing Countries
General Sources / Background Reading
TV shows / films / videos:
- Our Girl – BBC One
- Playpumps
- Rabecca’s Story
- Daniel’s Story – Sport Relief 2014
- Software Solutions for Developing Countries – SAP TV
- Gainesville Group Sews Feminine Products for Developing Countries – Days for Girls
- 101 Ways To Make Money in Africa – Business Ideas for Entrepreneurs in Africa – Eco Solutions
- Innovative Gadgets for Developing Nations – Take Part Live
- Shigeru Ban (an architect who makes temporary, semi-permanent and permanent structures out of cardboard)
- Why We Wrote Factfulness – Gapminder Foundation
- Don’t Panic – End Poverty (documentary) – Gapminder
Magazines/articles:
Books:
- By D Grace of God – A Photographic Journey Through Liberia
- Shigeru Ban – Taschen
- Factfulness – Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Blogs and websites:
- Playpumps
- Gapminder
- Sustainable Development Goals – United Nations Development Programme
- By D Grace of God (The story behind the book) – Good News Network
- World Bicycle Relief
- Meet 7 startups that are innovating for the developing world – OpenStreetMap
- 16 brilliant innovations tackling poverty around the world – Mashable
- Motorbikes for health in rural Kenya – Virgin
- Riders for Health – NSMC
- Comic Relief
- Sport Relief
- Africa’s week in pictures – BBC News
Introduction – Page 1
TV shows / films / videos:
- How to scan a QR code
What is a Developing Country? – Page 6
TV shows / films / videos:
- Classifying developed and developing countries – Alexander Krneta
Blogs and websites:
- Least-developed countries – World Trade Organization
- Table of development statistics (from page 212) – Human Development Report 2016 – UNDP
- Facts about countries – The Fact File
Economic Issues – Page 8
TV shows / films / videos:
- Don’t Panic – End Poverty (documentary) – Gapminder
- Puzzle of Growth: Rich Countries and Poor Countries – Marginal Revolution University
Magazines/articles:
Blogs and websites:
Social Issues – Page 9
TV shows / films / videos:
- Surgery in developing countries – TheLancetTV
- Gender Equality: Now – WorldFish
Podcasts:
Who is Helping Developing Countries? – Page 11
Blogs and websites:
- Education in developing countries
- Fighting Corruption in the Developing World – TED Talk
- ShelterBox
- The Hunger Project
- 15 Organizations fighting poverty in developing countries – The Borgen Project
Spotlight – Page 13
Blogs and websites:
A Day in the Life – Page 14
TV shows / films / videos:
- A day in the life of a village girl – William UD321