Links I liked

This week’s top tweets, with a big hat tip to the indefatigable Conrad Hackett 

I suspect everyone has already seen this except me, but I thought it was cool. This will change how you see Australia [h/t Conrad Hackett]

Fascinating: Tim Berners-Lee’s 1992 article on the future of this web thing he’s cooked up, which was then groaning under the weight of over 1014 documents [h/t Kimberly Bowman]

Has global activism lost its edge, diluted by funding, results, growth & professionalization? An Open Letter to activists everywhere from Civicus

If only George Bernard Shaw & Winston Churchill had had Twitter … [h/t Conrad Hackett]

How to look smart in front of your rivals development colleagues

The BRICS Bank. Excellent intro to its governance and purpose (as well as its origins in the IMF’s failure to reform itself) from the ODI’s Zhenbo Hou

And some reasons to be cheerful (and boy, do we need some). [h/t Max C Roser, via Mr Hackett]:

Child Mortality has decreased massively around world since 1970.