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Millennium Development Goals and ICT
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Pacific Regional MDGs Workshop
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This is a PDF powerpoint type presentation used at the Pacific Regional MDGs Workshop. It overviews the MDGs and iterates what is needed for achievement.
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ICT and MDGs: A World Bank Perspective
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During the past decade the international community has focused its efforts on strategies to help the people of the world's poorest countries share in the benefits of globalization and escape the traps of poverty. The decision at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000 to adopt eight specific Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provides an agreed political benchmark for measuring the progress of global development. In the same year, the G-8 initiated the Digital Opportunity Task Force (DOT Force) to harness the forces of new technologies in order to narrow social and economic inequalities by making the benefits from these technologies accessible and meaningful for all humanity.
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Inauguration of MDG Bangla Portal
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On November 13th, the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) of Bangladesh has launched their Millennium Development Goals (MDG) portal in Bangla. The inaugural ceremony was held at the National Press Club and it was launched by Mr Shajahan Siraj MP and the Hon’ble Minister of Environment and forest. You can read more about it here....
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Volunteers Apply ICTs and Contribute to MDGs
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People all over the world are contributing as volunteers in developing countries to apply and build others' capacities in information and communication technologies (ICT). The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS), led by the UN Volunteers programme, promotes volunteering as a fundamental element of successful ICT4D efforts, and promotes ICT as a tool for volunteers engaged in development. In conjunction with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), UNITeS is gathering and posting examples of such "ICT volunteering", and linking each to its relevant Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and MDG targets.
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Essays by John Daly: The Partnership Goal: Access to ICTs
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This is the last in a series of essays dealing with information and communication technologies (ICT) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). It relates to Goal 8, “Develop a global partnership for development.” This Goal differs in form and substance from the others, focusing primarily on policy changes agreed upon by the nations gathered at the United Nations Millennium Assembly. In most cases, the role of ICT appears minimal in achieving the related targets or in engendering improvements measured against the identified indicators.
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Networking Development - ICT for MDGs
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A poem entitled 'Networking Development' ICT for Millennium Development Goals by Frederick S. Tipson, Executive Director of the Global Digital Opportunity Initiative at the Markle Foundation.
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Millennium Development Goals
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The World Bank’s Millennium Development Goals website contains a wealth of information relating to the achievement of the MDGs and details a wide range of achievement statistics - including more specifically East Asia and the Pacific.
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Education for All
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This strategy document outlines the dimensions of both international support at national level, and coordination between international agencies, taking into account the comparative advantage of each agency and the need for cohesion and effective co-operation in support of EFA. Its purpose is to make the Dakar Framework for Action operational. It is complementary to existing EFA documentation, which the reader may consult elsewhere.
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Bhutan's MDG Progress Report 2002
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This first Millennium Development Goal Report for Bhutan is intended to evaluate the progress made
from the base year of 1990 towards the attainment of the Goals in 2015. While it identifies critical
challenges and priority areas where our efforts need to be substantially increased, it also highlights
particular areas in which first successes are perceptible. The Report further seeks to raise awareness
about the goals of human and social development and build broad based support for action at all levels
for their attainment.
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Lessons Learned from 17 infoDev Projects
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The aim of this paper is to create a publicly available resource that provides concise descriptions of selected infoDev ICT-for-development projects and their impact on poverty. The paper first presents case studies of a cross-section of projects funded by the infoDev Core Program, followed by an in-depth analysis of the impact and limits of those projects. The main criterion for selecting projects for case study analysis was to be as representative as possible of the various environments (political, economic, social, geographic) in which infoDev has been operating since its inception.
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Efficiency in Reaching the MDGs
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The four papers presented in this study look at whether improvements in efficiency could bring gains in outcomes. The first two papers use world panel data in order to analyze country level efficiency in improving education, health, and GDP indicators (GDP is related to the MDGs because a higher level of income leads to a reduction in poverty). The other two papers use province and state level data to analyze within-country efficiency in Argentina and Mexico for “producing” good education and health outcomes. Together, the four papers suggest that apart from increasing inputs, it will be necessary to improve efficiency in order to reach the MDGs.
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International Association for Development of the Information Society 2006
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The IADIS e-Society 2006 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eGovernment / eGovernance, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management.
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Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development
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The aim of this report is to share lessons learned from the past five decadesof development practices. It is not a collection of recommendations of what countries should do but a source of ideas on how to approach development challenges. It emphasizes the need to create space for policy experimentation and learning in developing countries. Development is largely an expression of local initiative and international partnership; it cannot be sustained without
local ownership and champions.
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APDIP e-Note 16
ICT-focused Regional Human Development Report (RHDR)
