ICTs and the millennium development goals: a United Nations perspective

摘要

To work toward building a new global partnership aiming to reduce extreme poverty, world leaders assembled together at United Nations (UN) Headquarters in September 2000 to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration, and set out a series of time-bound targets-with a deadline of 2015. These became known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This book-as an edited collection of 15 diverse papers-attempts to create awareness about UN-MDGs and how various information and communications technologies (ICTs) can be harnessed to appeal to different demographic segments of global society.