Google has created an interactive scheme for the global arms trade.

The Corporation of Good recently announced its intention to use technology to monitor / combat drug traffickers, human traffickers and weapons. It is clear that such news surprised many, because Google is not an organization for the fight against organized crime. Now the scheme is gradually becoming clear: Google engineers will not personally go to cities and villages, catching criminals.

No, the corporation, using various kinds of information, creates visual interactive models that can serve to determine the direction of trade in the specified “goods”, including weapons, drugs, and yes, people. So far, the scheme is ready for the arms trade. Interesting fact: according to Google data, about 60% of all violent deaths in the world are due to the use of light weapons.
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The scheme itself, unfortunately, cannot be inserted on this page, but you can find it here . Using the scheme is not very difficult: it is necessary to choose a country by clicking on the corresponding region, and we will see highlighted lines - the main ways of entering the country of arms, and ways of leaving the country. Blue lines - import of weapons, red - export.

The brighter the line, the greater the “throughput” of such a line, the more weapons go along such a line. There are filters that allow you to display only the supply of ammunition, the supply of "military", or only "civilian" weapons. There are a lot of filters.

The corporation created all this with the help of a partner, the Igarape Institute. And the goal of all this is to show the global influence of the trade in “light” weapons, the market of which has already reached $ 8.5 billion. The project used data from the Peace Research Institute, Oslo.