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Fourteen years ago, world leaders and policy makers gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York for the Millennium Summit to discuss what role the international body would play in the new century. They adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which included the following eight Millennium Development Goals: To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger To achieve universal primary education To promote gender equality and empowering women To reduce child mortality rates To improve maternal health To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases To ensure environmental sustainability To develop a global partnership for development Most of the tech gadgets and social media we use today didn’t even exist fourteen years ago. Technology has...
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This is part of our year-long series “Millennium Development Goals Tech Roadmap” According to a new report released by the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, over 50 percent of the world will have Internet access by 2017. This is due largely in part to the rapid growth of mobile technology. Approximately 2.3 billion people will access mobile broadband by the end of the year, and a predicted 7.6 billion within the next five years. South Korea still leads the world with the highest household broadband penetration at 98 percent and the least connected in Timor-Leste at 1.1 percent. The Commission...
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This is part of our year-long series “Millennium Development Goals Tech Roadmap” Goal 8: Develop A Global Partnership For Development Target 8A: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system Target 8B: Address the special needs of least developed countries Target 8C: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States Target 8D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries Target 8E: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries Target 8F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially...
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This is part of our year-long series “Millennium Development Goals Tech Roadmap” Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health Target 5A: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio Target 5B: Achieve universal access to reproductive health Maternal mortality has nearly halved worldwide in the last 20 years. Goal 5 correlates with Goal 4 of reducing child mortality. Improved maternal health is not only important to saving the mother’s life, but also for their baby. Only half of pregnant women in developing countries received the recommended minimum of four antenatal care visitations. While births by doctors, midwives and other skilled health providers has...
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